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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. Tech scale-up has been a massive driver for the local startup ecosystem, and non-VC or angel investing is also a growing market here. Coverage from last year showed that more than 70% of the $1.7

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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Alysia Silberg In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Alysia Silberg. 10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? [11:53]

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7 Ways Of Using An Immigrant Culture In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, I find them often jumping to the forefront, with many notable successes , including Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, and Arianna Huffington (Greece) at the Huffington Post. Look at the world as today’s global market.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

miiCard– which stands for “My Internet Identity”– is an identify verification service using your email address, your mobile phone, and your online banking account to prove you are actually you. miiCard is like flashing your driver’s license or passport on the internet. What made you use crowdSPRING?

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Wonga Launches Fraud Hotline To Combat Phishing Scam

YoungUpstarts

Wonga, the well known short term lender, is being used as the front for an email and SMS phishing scam perpetrated by a gang on internet fraudsters. The scam has been targeting consumers in South Africa, a country where online consumers face a high risk of internet fraud , for the past year. How to identify the scam.

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

You’d be forgiven for thinking that because the African market is not saturated with startups that means it’s easy for entrepreneurs to create explosive growth with little forward planning. In Africa, entrepreneurs have serious, intractable problems that western startups don’t face. Think and plan long term.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. The market is over bloated with solutions of all sorts claiming that they’ll improve your business routine, but very few of them succeed at that. I was sitting in a pool and wondering about home. I was thinking about Vancouver. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game?