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She notes, for example, that she has been lucky to have worked with people at all levels in public administration, including such notable leaders as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia since 2006 – and Africa’s first elected female head of state. MORE
Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. Today is a day I’ve waited patiently for for 5 years but more earnestly for more than 1 year. MORE
Trevor Noah, if you aren’t aware, is a comedian from South Africa. Instead, it gives his story of growing up extremely poor in South Africa, dealing with the effects of a post-Apartheid society. MORE
This payment solution was beta-tested by merchants such as Russian-themed restaurant and caviar bar Buyan in Singapore since June last year, and is now launched worldwide, with the company targeting Southeast Asia, South Africa and South America as key target markets. MORE
A celebrated speaker, he gets invitations to speak from all over the world – Australia (Melbourne was his childhood home), Europe, US, China, India, Africa, and South East Asia (including Singapore ). Nick Vujicic is a man on a global mission. MORE
Startup Lessons Learned 2011 is just around the corner: May 23, 2011 in SF. You have just under a week to get general admission tickets before prices go up. A lot of people missed the early bird rates and wrote to me about it. Don't be late, buy your ticket now. We've also added a number of extremely discounted tickets for full-time students. New Speakers Our program keeps getting better and better. We're debuting many brand new case studies, and I could not be more excited. MORE
Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa. — @realdonaldtrump I have always taken the issue of immigration personally because I am the son of an immigrant from South America. MORE
percent in South Africa (to 11.9 After being unseated last quarter by Indonesia, China has regained its spot as the source of observed attack traffic in the third quarter of 2013. MORE
Paul, MN: [link] Montreal, QC: [link] Nashville, TN: [link] New York (Downtown), NY: [link] New York (Midtown), NY: [link] New York (NoHo), NY: [link] New York (SoHo), NY: [link] Omaha, NE: [link] Orlando, FL: [link] Orlando (South Orlando), FL: [link] Phoenix/Chandler, AZ: [link] Portland, OR: [link] Portsmouth, NH: [link] Provo, UT: [link] Redmond, WA: [link] San Juan, PR: [link] Santa Monica, CA: [link] Seattle, WA: [link] Spokane, WA: [link] St. MORE
More than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended the event – coming from as far as South Africa and Nova Scotia. Last Thursday, we hosted a private marketplace-themed event in San Francisco, The Holy Grail of the Marketplace: The Virtuous Cycle. We initially started bringing the marketplace community together when we published our Guide to Marketplaces. And nights like these prove that this space is just as dynamic and promising as ever. MORE
including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. In my experience as a business advisor and angel investor these days, I seem to more frequently hear from entrepreneurs and business owners with “can’t-fail” or “get-rich-quick” ideas. MORE
In Cape Town, South Africa you can head over to WorkShop17. by Nazir Adams of Sekari. MORE
Our name, Lubanzi, comes from a wandering dog that followed me and my co-founder on a 6 day, 100 mile trip hiking across South Africa’s remote Wild Coast. In 2014, while living in South Africa as exchange students, we set off on a 20-hour bus ride along South Africa’s southern coast en route to the wild coast, a remote part of the country – famously the birthplace of Nelson Mandela – for a week-long backpacking expedition. MORE
Trevor Noah, if you aren’t aware, is a comedian from South Africa. Instead, it gives his story of growing up extremely poor in South Africa, dealing with the effects of a post-Apartheid society. If you’re new here, I should say that I love reading. I read 40 books last year, and I have a goal to read 52 books this year. MORE
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. The scam starts with an email or SMS being sent to customers, purported by Wonga South Africa, to a diverse range of recipients. MORE
There are many loan sharks in South Africa, with IOL saying that South Africa’s private debt crisis cost the country an estimated R500-million a month. MORE
Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you don’t know what this is, let’s work with the simple Wikipedia definition which is pretty good. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. MORE
Originally a trained fashion buyer from South Africa, Gnesin stepped into entrepreneurship at the age of 19. By Trevor Gnesin, President, Logomark. Over the past several years, a U.S. MORE
EIGHTY20 is a small consulting company based in South Africa. “I’m In Logo Love” is a new series on the crowdSPRING blog. Periodically, we’ll pick a logo we’d like to take home from a bar and tell you why. MORE
South Africa. Check out the South African Savings Institute. The South African Savings Institute is a good resource for South Africans, with news, savings tips and information on participating in the national Savings Month. You’re going to need a bigger bank. MORE
75% of the world’s platinum comes from South Africa, with the rest coming from Russia, Zimbabwe, Canada, and the US. The price of platinum is driven by supply and demand, the South African economy, and technological development, in particular, the rise of electric vehicles. MORE
But the three standout countries in terms of ambition are United Arab Emirates (95-percent), South Africa (85-percent) and India (81-percent). Much has been written about the characteristics – and quirks – of the Millennial Generation, those born between 1982 and 1995. MORE
More than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended the event – coming from as far as South Africa and Nova Scotia. Last week I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Andrew Chen for a fireside chat on growth strategies as part of the Version One marketplace meetup. As an investor and former founder, I know that scalable growth (and the pretty hockey stick graph) is the holy grail for every startup. And Andrew understands growth strategy as well as anyone in the industry. MORE
Joseph is based in San Francisco and has lived and worked in Singapore, India, England, Australia, and South Africa. Joseph Pigato is the Managing Director of Sparked. Recruiting, interviewing and hiring staff overseas can be an adventure. MORE
10 Literacy Instruction programmes implemented in South Africa, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. 50 teachers trained in South Africa. MORE
A citizen of the world, he’s worked with disadvantaged youth in South Africa, and volunteered his time at many conferences around the world. Including conferences in Italy, Canada, Holland, Turkey, the UK, Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, New Zealand, and Australia. MORE
South by Southwest has been intentional about ensuring their programming features speakers from diverse backgrounds. It’s a big priority in Austin and at Capital Factory , too. Here are some of our favorite D&I events you should check out during SXSW! Preston James, Marcus Stroud, Ugwem I. MORE
Wendy is originally from South Africa and after a year traveling abroad, fell in love with the sparkle of the City of Angels and decided to make Los Angeles her home. MORE
While cybercrime in Singapore is generally low compared to other high-risk countries (Russia sees 85% cybercrime rate, with China at 77% and South Africa at 73%), the sharp rise in losses from cybercrime is cause for concern. MORE
It was there on the shores of the South African coast that the initial idea for Slyde was formed. “The inspiration for the arrow in our logo is a turn-off sign you see along the N2 coastal highway in South Africa that has breaks like J-bay along it,&# adds Watts. MORE
A Native of South Africa, Clinton Phillips, a serial entrepreneur, recently founded Medici, a HIPAA-complaint telemedicine app, in Austin and raised more than $24 million in venture capital funding. Previously, Phillips founded and ran Aspen-based Aspen Back & Body, physical rehab clinic, that he sold to Laser Spine Institute. MORE
Technology is changing lives — even saving lives — in Africa, the world’s second most populous continent. A production of BloombergTVAfrica , this will be an ongoing series about technology and entrepreneurship across Africa. MORE
South Africa. The South African Institute for Entrepreneurship. Endeavor South Africa. If you’re an entrepreneur planning to start a business outside of the United States, you might be looking for assistance and resources that are available in your specific country. MORE
EIGHTY20 is a small consulting company based in South Africa. “I’m In Logo Love” is a new series on the crowdSPRING blog. Periodically, we’ll pick a logo we’d like to take home from a bar and tell you why. MORE
In South Africa especially, there is an underlying need to keep a business well financed and managed, in alignment with the economic development goals of the country. Finance is one of the very subtle sectors of a business that can make or break entrepreneurs. MORE
Somehow he became popular in South Africa – with popularity approaching something like that of the Beatles. And he had never known of his success in South Africa. Many people reading this will be digital natives. MORE
South Africa: Motivated. If there’s one word most people describe themselves with professionally, it’s creative. MORE
But his speech in 1968 while in South Africa, often referred to as the Ripple of Hope speech, is probably my favorite. Not a political figure in South Africa, but a US Senator. He had no business being in South Africa, except that he cared. I wrote last week about Bobby Kennedy’s speech after Martin Luther King, Jr., MORE
Cincinnati, NEO HQ, 3700 Park 42 Dr Cleveland Columbus Oklahoma: Tulsa Pennsylvania: Lititz Philadelphia Puerto Rico: San Juan South Dakota: Sioux Falls Texas: Austin: Tech Ranch Austin, 9111 Jollyville Rd. Petersburg Yekaterinburg Serbia: Belgrade Singapore: Singapore Slovakia: Bratislava Slovenia: Ljubljana South Africa: Johannesburg, 169 Oxford Rd. MORE
I’ve read a book on the plight of the poor white Appalachia community and one on the poor black Atlanta community ; I’ve read a book on what it means to be a feminist and Trevor Noah’s story of growing up black in South Africa. The two things that will determine who you will be five years from now are: #1 The people you spend time with. #2 2 The books you read. I can’t take credit for this idea, but I sure do agree with it. MORE
The startup culture is rampant today, especially in emerging national economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. by Ambarish Gupta, CEO and founder of Knowlarity Communications. MORE
Locations and Dates: Johannesburg, South Africa – February 16-17, 2018. 8 of the Best Executive Assistant Conferences in 2018. Executive Assistants never seem to rest, let alone take time away from work to focus on themselves. MORE
Growing up in South Africa, I had a pet giraffe named George that followed me around. As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we talked to Mr. Tony Lakier. Tony is the Founder and CEO of RedMane Technology. MORE
Other reports across South Africa and Europe have also indicated similar findings. According to recent reports, self-employed builders and quantity surveyors are 40% more likely than other professions to accumulate personal debt. MORE
South Africa Related Topics YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
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. The scam starts with an email or SMS being sent to customers, purported by Wonga South Africa, to a diverse range of recipients.
SiliconHills
JUNE 21, 2017
A Native of South Africa, Clinton Phillips, a serial entrepreneur, recently founded Medici, a HIPAA-complaint telemedicine app, in Austin and raised more than $24 million in venture capital funding. Previously, Phillips founded and ran Aspen-based Aspen Back & Body, physical rehab clinic, that he sold to Laser Spine Institute.
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 16, 2019
75% of the world’s platinum comes from South Africa, with the rest coming from Russia, Zimbabwe, Canada, and the US. The price of platinum is driven by supply and demand, the South African economy, and technological development, in particular, the rise of electric vehicles.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2019
There are many loan sharks in South Africa, with IOL saying that South Africa’s private debt crisis cost the country an estimated R500-million a month.
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 20, 2019
In South Africa especially, there is an underlying need to keep a business well financed and managed, in alignment with the economic development goals of the country. Finance is one of the very subtle sectors of a business that can make or break entrepreneurs.
The Next Web
JULY 19, 2014
Joseph is based in San Francisco and has lived and worked in Singapore, India, England, Australia, and South Africa. Joseph Pigato is the Managing Director of Sparked. Recruiting, interviewing and hiring staff overseas can be an adventure.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 9, 2012
But the three standout countries in terms of ambition are United Arab Emirates (95-percent), South Africa (85-percent) and India (81-percent). Much has been written about the characteristics – and quirks – of the Millennial Generation, those born between 1982 and 1995.
Jeff Hilimire
OCTOBER 22, 2017
But his speech in 1968 while in South Africa, often referred to as the Ripple of Hope speech, is probably my favorite. Not a political figure in South Africa, but a US Senator. He had no business being in South Africa, except that he cared. I wrote last week about Bobby Kennedy’s speech after Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you don’t know what this is, let’s work with the simple Wikipedia definition which is pretty good. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer.
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 19, 2017
Trevor Noah, if you aren’t aware, is a comedian from South Africa. Instead, it gives his story of growing up extremely poor in South Africa, dealing with the effects of a post-Apartheid society.
The Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Growing up in South Africa, I had a pet giraffe named George that followed me around. As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we talked to Mr. Tony Lakier. Tony is the Founder and CEO of RedMane Technology.
Mike Michalowicz
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Wendy is originally from South Africa and after a year traveling abroad, fell in love with the sparkle of the City of Angels and decided to make Los Angeles her home.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
She notes, for example, that she has been lucky to have worked with people at all levels in public administration, including such notable leaders as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia since 2006 – and Africa’s first elected female head of state.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 13, 2013
While cybercrime in Singapore is generally low compared to other high-risk countries (Russia sees 85% cybercrime rate, with China at 77% and South Africa at 73%), the sharp rise in losses from cybercrime is cause for concern.
David Cohen
MAY 16, 2014
Technology is changing lives — even saving lives — in Africa, the world’s second most populous continent. A production of BloombergTVAfrica , this will be an ongoing series about technology and entrepreneurship across Africa.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 6, 2017
including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. In my experience as a business advisor and angel investor these days, I seem to more frequently hear from entrepreneurs and business owners with “can’t-fail” or “get-rich-quick” ideas.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
In Cape Town, South Africa you can head over to WorkShop17. by Nazir Adams of Sekari.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 20, 2011
It was there on the shores of the South African coast that the initial idea for Slyde was formed. “The inspiration for the arrow in our logo is a turn-off sign you see along the N2 coastal highway in South Africa that has breaks like J-bay along it,&# adds Watts.
Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 27, 2016
More than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended the event – coming from as far as South Africa and Nova Scotia. Last Thursday, we hosted a private marketplace-themed event in San Francisco, The Holy Grail of the Marketplace: The Virtuous Cycle. We initially started bringing the marketplace community together when we published our Guide to Marketplaces. And nights like these prove that this space is just as dynamic and promising as ever.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
OCTOBER 31, 2014
A citizen of the world, he’s worked with disadvantaged youth in South Africa, and volunteered his time at many conferences around the world. Including conferences in Italy, Canada, Holland, Turkey, the UK, Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, New Zealand, and Australia.
Hearpreneur
JULY 29, 2018
Our name, Lubanzi, comes from a wandering dog that followed me and my co-founder on a 6 day, 100 mile trip hiking across South Africa’s remote Wild Coast. In 2014, while living in South Africa as exchange students, we set off on a 20-hour bus ride along South Africa’s southern coast en route to the wild coast, a remote part of the country – famously the birthplace of Nelson Mandela – for a week-long backpacking expedition.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 17, 2015
The startup culture is rampant today, especially in emerging national economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. by Ambarish Gupta, CEO and founder of Knowlarity Communications.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. Today is a day I’ve waited patiently for for 5 years but more earnestly for more than 1 year.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
South Africa. The South African Institute for Entrepreneurship. Endeavor South Africa. If you’re an entrepreneur planning to start a business outside of the United States, you might be looking for assistance and resources that are available in your specific country.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Locations and Dates: Johannesburg, South Africa – February 16-17, 2018. 8 of the Best Executive Assistant Conferences in 2018. Executive Assistants never seem to rest, let alone take time away from work to focus on themselves.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2016
Other reports across South Africa and Europe have also indicated similar findings. According to recent reports, self-employed builders and quantity surveyors are 40% more likely than other professions to accumulate personal debt.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 4, 2012
South Africa: Motivated. If there’s one word most people describe themselves with professionally, it’s creative.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 26, 2012
This payment solution was beta-tested by merchants such as Russian-themed restaurant and caviar bar Buyan in Singapore since June last year, and is now launched worldwide, with the company targeting Southeast Asia, South Africa and South America as key target markets.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 28, 2014
percent in South Africa (to 11.9 After being unseated last quarter by Indonesia, China has regained its spot as the source of observed attack traffic in the third quarter of 2013.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 20, 2014
A celebrated speaker, he gets invitations to speak from all over the world – Australia (Melbourne was his childhood home), Europe, US, China, India, Africa, and South East Asia (including Singapore ). Nick Vujicic is a man on a global mission.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 2, 2015
Originally a trained fashion buyer from South Africa, Gnesin stepped into entrepreneurship at the age of 19. By Trevor Gnesin, President, Logomark. Over the past several years, a U.S.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2012
Cincinnati, NEO HQ, 3700 Park 42 Dr Cleveland Columbus Oklahoma: Tulsa Pennsylvania: Lititz Philadelphia Puerto Rico: San Juan South Dakota: Sioux Falls Texas: Austin: Tech Ranch Austin, 9111 Jollyville Rd. Petersburg Yekaterinburg Serbia: Belgrade Singapore: Singapore Slovakia: Bratislava Slovenia: Ljubljana South Africa: Johannesburg, 169 Oxford Rd.
Jeff Hilimire
OCTOBER 20, 2017
I’ve read a book on the plight of the poor white Appalachia community and one on the poor black Atlanta community ; I’ve read a book on what it means to be a feminist and Trevor Noah’s story of growing up black in South Africa. The two things that will determine who you will be five years from now are: #1 The people you spend time with. #2 2 The books you read. I can’t take credit for this idea, but I sure do agree with it.
VC Cafe
JUNE 12, 2016
10 Literacy Instruction programmes implemented in South Africa, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. 50 teachers trained in South Africa.
Jeff Hilimire
JANUARY 17, 2018
Trevor Noah, if you aren’t aware, is a comedian from South Africa. Instead, it gives his story of growing up extremely poor in South Africa, dealing with the effects of a post-Apartheid society. If you’re new here, I should say that I love reading. I read 40 books last year, and I have a goal to read 52 books this year.
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 1, 2010
EIGHTY20 is a small consulting company based in South Africa. “I’m In Logo Love” is a new series on the crowdSPRING blog. Periodically, we’ll pick a logo we’d like to take home from a bar and tell you why.
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 1, 2010
EIGHTY20 is a small consulting company based in South Africa. “I’m In Logo Love” is a new series on the crowdSPRING blog. Periodically, we’ll pick a logo we’d like to take home from a bar and tell you why.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 15, 2011
Startup Lessons Learned 2011 is just around the corner: May 23, 2011 in SF. You have just under a week to get general admission tickets before prices go up. A lot of people missed the early bird rates and wrote to me about it. Don't be late, buy your ticket now. We've also added a number of extremely discounted tickets for full-time students. New Speakers Our program keeps getting better and better. We're debuting many brand new case studies, and I could not be more excited.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 23, 2011
Paul, MN: [link] Montreal, QC: [link] Nashville, TN: [link] New York (Downtown), NY: [link] New York (Midtown), NY: [link] New York (NoHo), NY: [link] New York (SoHo), NY: [link] Omaha, NE: [link] Orlando, FL: [link] Orlando (South Orlando), FL: [link] Phoenix/Chandler, AZ: [link] Portland, OR: [link] Portsmouth, NH: [link] Provo, UT: [link] Redmond, WA: [link] San Juan, PR: [link] Santa Monica, CA: [link] Seattle, WA: [link] Spokane, WA: [link] St.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 17, 2017
Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa. — @realdonaldtrump I have always taken the issue of immigration personally because I am the son of an immigrant from South America.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 7, 2014
South Africa. Check out the South African Savings Institute. The South African Savings Institute is a good resource for South Africans, with news, savings tips and information on participating in the national Savings Month. You’re going to need a bigger bank.
Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 31, 2016
More than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended the event – coming from as far as South Africa and Nova Scotia. Last week I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Andrew Chen for a fireside chat on growth strategies as part of the Version One marketplace meetup. As an investor and former founder, I know that scalable growth (and the pretty hockey stick graph) is the holy grail for every startup. And Andrew understands growth strategy as well as anyone in the industry.
Austin Startup
MARCH 6, 2019
South by Southwest has been intentional about ensuring their programming features speakers from diverse backgrounds. It’s a big priority in Austin and at Capital Factory , too. Here are some of our favorite D&I events you should check out during SXSW! Preston James, Marcus Stroud, Ugwem I.
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