What startups may come: a look at Silicon Savannah in Kenya
“How would you like to pay?”, a cashier at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport asks me. “M-Pesa or cash?” she continues as I try to gather my thoughts. And then it hits me — this is Kenya, where...
View ArticleAn article and a bootcamp: the makings of a Nigerian-women-in-tech movement?
This is interesting. Last week an article on Webtrends.ng asked if you could hire a female developer in your company. The piece, based on nothing more than the author’s thought process, argued that...
View ArticleBREAKING: Silicon Cape gets over R3m in funding from FNB, big changes to come
South African-based entrepreneurial initiative Silicon Cape has just announced that it has received more than R3-million worth of funding from First National Bank (FNB). This announcement certainly...
View ArticleMaking millionaires: the developers who won big in Gyft’s Silicon Valley exit
“Gyft was mostly built out of Cape Town,” Vinny Lingham told the audience at a recent Silicon Cape event where a big funding announcement was made. The announcement was hailed as the financial...
View ArticleHow do you infiltrate the startup ecosystem in Africa?
The question posed by the headline makes Africa’s VC (Venture Capitalist) ecosystem seem like the mafia, where your cousin Vinny has to introduce you to the godfather and you have to get through a...
View ArticleDiversity in tech startups: time to check our privilege
I was recently asked to speak on diversity in the South African tech space at Net Prophet, the popular technology and entrepreneurship conference. The talk addressed issues around race (mostly) and...
View ArticleWhat is the future of the African Startup?
What is the future of the African startup? This question was posed to me a couple of days ago and I have battled with the answer. The easy answer is somewhere between tech and agriculture, that’s what...
View ArticleAfrican startup future: infrastructure and access
Last week, I wrote about the future of the African startup. I tried to answer what our future in the tech startup space entailed, I am not sure there is a solid answer to that question. Something that...
View ArticleSpringleap case shows how unrelenting growth has poisoned tech [Opinion]
In late August, it emerged that the New York Attorney General had charged SA entrepreneur Eran Eyal with fraud. While CEO of design crowdsourcing site Springleap, the attorney general’s charges allege...
View ArticleWhat Skinny Sbu saga tells us about backing black entrepreneurs [Opinion]
Late last month, SA social media was briefly consumed with a TV interview in which entrepreneur Sibusiso Ngwenya asked for R5-million in funding. In the interview, the Skinny Sbu Socks founder...
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