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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? [11:53] Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. Long before sales enablement became like this very ubiquitous thing. Let's go back to South Africa.

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30 Money Saving Tips For Your Business

Up and Running

Craigslist, yard sales, ebay, etc- If it doesn’t absolutely need to be new, get a nice, functional used one and save the money. South Africa. Check out the South African Savings Institute. Buy used office equipment and furniture. This one is pretty self-explanatory. Short duration leases. Free investment workshops.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Thanks to notably Erin LaCkore, LaCkore Couture ! #8-

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Founder Interview: Michel Ruiz on Augmented Reality and Building the KaviAR Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

AR has many valuable applications and solutions for sales, marketing, customer service and training. Michel researching South Africa. AR shortens the sales cycle and simplifies the act of buying. TSM: Sounds like we need a bit more detail, tell us more about what KaviAR does? It has many commercial applications as well.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. miiCard stands for “My Internet Identity”, it is the first service that allows you to prove your identity purely online to the level of a passport, driver’s licence or photo ID.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. I stayed close.

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Founder Interview: RedMane Technology’s Tony Lakier

The Startup Magazine

And we’re assisting a wholesale distributor optimize their sales and marketing strategy via data based insights so they can scale their business. Growing up in South Africa, I had a pet giraffe named George that followed me around. What is one interesting fact about you that people may not know?

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