YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Africa is a huge and diverse continent, and over the last few years, it has emerged as one of the world’s hotspots for startups. If your business doesn’t work out, you can go back to the drawing board, refinance, use tech solutions and networks to help you change tack. by Sharon Fishburne.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

This works particularly well for those engaged in B2B activities or for those who struggle to network. Keeping a business blog and guest blogging on other websites are other ways to get your name out there. In Africa – and South Africa in particular – you can seek online tenders and have the jobs sent straight to your inbox.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. And he followed through. So he had had a taste of it.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In addition to attending stellar sessions, Executive Assistant attendees will have the opportunity to network with people who face the same challenges they do…and maybe meet assistants who face a whole different host of challenges. Locations and Dates: Johannesburg, South Africa – February 16-17, 2018.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It’s even better if you can make your search specific by including the name of the bank you’re looking for information on. Just make sure you can spot the advertisements: Look for “Ad” on the left side under the name of the website. Try variations on this formula: [industry name] business incubator/accelerator in [city, country].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. The name of our company, Sisu, means, in Finnish, persevering in the face of adversity. Little did I realize how apt of a name that would be.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 21, 2018

How did you come up with your business name? Previously having run a professional business networking group on the East Coast of Australia, one of the key USP’s for the group was to ask each guest Y they did what they did. Shar; I’ve always asked people Y they do what they do. Henceforth, Art from the Heart by Lisa Pollock was born.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

Seren 00:07:18] said, networking and branding. Those are your struggles; marketing, networking, getting started, focusing. I read this quote by a guy named Parker Palmer, who is an author and an activist. It’s not just who you know in terms of succeeding in networking. Jonathan: Yeah, absolutely. Caroline popped in.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Last year the Rwandan government completed a $95 million fiber optic cable network reaching every district in the country to encourage new economic growth through ICT. The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

A brief bit of science before we dive into how to come up with ideas… Good ideas are networks. You are a part of a ‘liquid’ network. Most were plastic, or they were made using boring wood, or they were poorly shaped, poorly finished, you name it. In a human’s brain, there are approximately 100 billion of these cells.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

While our data does apply to a US audience, the reasons for starting a business really aren’t going to be that different, whether you’re in Canada or South Africa. Do you want to tie your name to an oil industry, or offer a service that you may not be brilliant at, but that will attract a lot of customers?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

She relocated our family to Cape Town South Africa to support the healing of the country after the end of the apartheid system. How did you come up with your business name? We have tens of thousands of graduates who have gone through our programming, but very few know where the name Momentum Education comes from.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

She relocated our family to Cape Town South Africa to support the healing of the country after the end of the apartheid system. How did you come up with your business name? We have tens of thousands of graduates who have gone through our programming, but very few know where the name Momentum Education comes from.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., Canada, England, South Korea, Japan, and Uruguay. So from 95%+ U.S. That stuff? Ideas and Innovations. Strategies. Or more prosaically, Brands.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers. You can change your name if you want to be called something else in the app. Below your name (and that of others) is a number and it took me for freaking ever to figure out WTF this was.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

Bring up social entrepreneurs and one of the first names you’re likely to encounter is that of Muhammad Yunus. He helps with the American Sustainable Business Council, writes books on responsible business practices, and is a member of the Social Venture Network and founder of the Community Capital Bank. Muhammad Yunus.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is to create a network of devices, so communities can work together to snuff out a threat. The product has been implemented successfully in South Africa and the name Lumkani was chosen because it has meaning in both countries. In Zulu, it means “Be Aware,” and in Swahili, it means “wake up.”

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