Up and Running

MAY 26, 2021

In South Africa, a small donation is asked with every meal to help feed the poor. Businesses can use their websites and social media to take a stand on inequalities in the workplace. For example, the KFC franchise has different initiatives in different geographical areas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2021

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.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 12, 2016

10 Literacy Instruction programmes implemented in South Africa, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. 50 teachers trained in South Africa. With the money we’ve raised since 2012, Room to Read have done the following: **Techbikers Impact** : 4 schools constructed in Nepal.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2020

Supported countries are Brazil, India, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, Ireland, Russia, China, Poland, Hungary, Salvador, Australia, and Canada, as well as the com. domain zone in general. The post List Of The Best SEO Chrome Extensions In 2020 appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I think we started working together in 2003 when he was new in the UK from South Africa. When we were acquried by Salesforce.com he went on to be the team technical lead and has steadily performed well there moving up in his role and responsibilities. Ryan is now in his 30’s (old fart).

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 15, 2020

South Africa. South Africa is a great destination for safari, as cities like Cape Town offer excellent tour opportunities, accommodation, and transportation infrastructure, while still being close enough to reserves to get people into the heart of the wilds.

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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. Free investment workshops.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Two social media influencers, brothers Finn and Jack Harries, known as JacksGap on YouTube, traveled to South Africa to help the Waterberg Welfare Society. Their videos about South Africa have gained 2 million views, spreading the word about the Waterberg Welfare Society around the world.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Bears in Yosemite, California and lions in Kruger, South Africa have all been roaming into the spaces usually reserved for human visitors. National Parks across the country and world were closed at the height of the pandemic. This lack of human interference and the resulting natural calm has meant that wildlife has thrived.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2020

The beer brand Carling Black Label combatted domestic violence in South Africa through its #NoExcuse campaign against gender based violence and fighting against toxic masculinity. Toothpaste brands have tackled school absenteeism and oral hygiene. And these are just a few examples.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). If you reflect on one part of Techstars – the accelerator programs – we’ve added the following new programs in 2015. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin). Techstars IoT (NYC). Virgin Media Accelerator (London).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2019

including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. In addition, I’ve always wondered why an inordinate number of successful businesses today were started by people born outside the U.S., Nordstrom (Sweden), and Pierre Omdiyar (France) at Ebay.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 23, 2020

Michel researching South Africa. Getting consumers introduced to AR is KaviAR Tech’s mission. The travel experience today begins when the consumer opens the catalog or web browser.

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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. How to identify the scam.

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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.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2020

Globally, she has worked on meningitis, pneumonia and Ebola vaccine trials in West Africa, and conducted surveillance and prevention projects in South Africa. Dr. Schuchat has serious medical credibility, so it’s worth hearing her, in basically real-time, talk about what is unfolding daily.

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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). Perhaps closely related to entrepreneurship, 72-percent of Millennials in Asia said they were ambitious and have big dreams. Technology rules their lives.

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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. If you are on the lookout for a loan, and are currently scouring online loan companies, it can be baffling to know which company is the right one.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

In South Africa, 31% of entrepreneurs fear failure, close to the highest figures in the west, and Africa does lag behind when it comes to discussing business failure. But in countries like South Africa and Ghana entrepreneurial failure is seen by many as shameful.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2019

One of the first advantages you will notice with a broker , specifically in South Africa, is that after opening a trading account, you can ask to be set up with a “dummy” account. However, there are so many advantages to signing up with a broker that most traders find it beneficial and even more profitable to work with a company.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

B efore we literally kick off the first ball in the 2010 South Africa World Cup, below is a collection of interesting links on Israeli startups and more for the week of June 11th: Interesting startups of the week. Each week I’ll be profiling 2-3 startups that caught my attention.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I recognized the challenges that the majority of the unemployed face in South Africa: a lack of finance, lack of frequent access to technology, education and language issues (English is not the first language of many in South Africa). Image Credit: Saleem Jaffer.

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Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution. The candidates are hired as self employed or independent contractors via Transformify Recruitment CRM.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Fat Sheep project in South Africa's barren Karoo landscape is my favorite turnaround story. Since then, Adidas has developed into a world whole recognized for its premium athletic attire. Thanks to David Reid, VEM Group ! #19- 19- The Fat Sheep project. Photo Credit: Lorie Carson.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In many of the projects I was involved with – in Lithuania, South Africa, Ghana and Liberia — we used a practitioner-to-practitioner approach, so that public servants in these countries could share and learn from their counterparts in Canada and vise versa.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

In Africa – and South Africa in particular – you can seek online tenders and have the jobs sent straight to your inbox. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2017

including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. In addition, I’ve always wondered why an inordinate number of successful businesses today were started by people born outside the U.S., Nordstrom (Sweden), and Pierre Omdiyar (France) at Ebay.

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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. Ideally, all companies need finances for daily operations.

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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.

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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. At the time, Bobby Kennedy was a Senator.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2011

“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. “Nine times out of ten that sign means good surf!&#.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

One of my favorite holiday destinations growing up in South Africa was the Palace of the Lost City. A little bit of creative theft here… The Bridge of Time at The Palace of the Lost City, South Africa. It’s a gigantic resort modeled off the ruins of a real lost city. ” How do you come up with ideas?

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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. He also formed strong working relationships with my partners at Upfront over the years. So he had had a taste of it. He also served nearly 2 years as an EIR and Scout at True Ventures one of the Silicon Valley firms I most respect.

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