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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

Even some of the most prominent startup household names in Silicon Valley saw their demise last year — and everyone entrepreneur and startup face this fear. Lagos (Nigeria) and Cape Town (South Africa) The African continent has rapidly developed its startup ecosystem in the last few decades.

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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

07:20] Can you name a particular instance in your career where you felt like “This is going to work, this is like what I should be doing”? [08:58] Does your superpower have a name? [10:00] 10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? Let's go back to South Africa.

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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. With the advent of the internet, every opportunity is global, since every customer can see you from anywhere in the world.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe. Yes, we had a few laughs about his name – hey, we were in our early 20′s.

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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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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

But the three standout countries in terms of ambition are United Arab Emirates (95-percent), South Africa (85-percent) and India (81-percent). We know that the Millennials are defined by their love for and use of technology, but how much do they really embrace the Internet and their devices? Technology rules their lives.