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Interview with Chris Garland of Botswana

The Startup Magazine

As the Managing Director of Fidelity Indemnity (Pty) Limited, a diversified business consultancy that works with high-net-worth individuals and enterprises investing in the 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) , he’s among the top business experts in the region. What originally attracted you to Botswana? I left the U.K.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

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. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. There’s some poetic justice in that. Thanks to Janet Perry, Napa Needlepoint ! Tell us in the comments below.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years. I had known I wanted to start my own e-commerce business but didn’t know what I wanted to sell until then. Thanks to Ryan O’Connor, One Tribe Apparel ! #11

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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] That even though everyone in South Africa said to us, you're mad, what are you doing going to America for a sales app? Let's go back to South Africa. 08:58] You talk about superpowers and finding your superpower.

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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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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). These programs don’t run in isolation – rather they are part of a horizontal scaling strategy based on a premise that you can build startups, and a startup community, anywhere in the world. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin).

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. He has a lovely family – Joy and Zion – who are also active members of the LA community. He also formed strong working relationships with my partners at Upfront over the years. So he had had a taste of it.

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