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Bartering 4 Bandwidth actively recruiting sponsors for 500 wi-fi hotspots. Magic deals for advertisers in low income areas!
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While the city does another survey, the poor are out in the virtual cold.On 8 August the City of Cape Town received a $315,000 (R2,500,000) grant "to conduct a study to investigate the technical,…Continue
Tags: wi-fi, bartering4bandwidth, b4b
Started this discussion. Last reply by Shaun Lindbergh Aug 28, 2012.
Are you interested to showcase your business or idea?
As founder of Motivate Cape Town I am planning to host a VC4Africa meetup on 8 March…Continue
Tags: Town, Cape, Motivate, Meetup, VC4Africa
Started Jan 13, 2012
Are you looking for investors for your business idea? Here is a possible avenue.
I recently listed my venture Motivate My City on VC4Africa, a Dutch-based platform "Connecting Entrepreneurs…Continue
Tags: angel, VC, entrepreneur, ideas, pitch
Started Jan 11, 2012
Are there app developers working with RAMP's virtual mobile? Any feedback?
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I want to roll out a number of educational mobile apps. I am impressed by what I see on the Ramp virtual mobile but would appreciate…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Shaun Lindbergh Sep 6, 2011.
Shaun Lindbergh's Page
About me and Inspired Business Ideas.
In 2008 my nature reserve development went into a nosedive as the Great Recession took hold of the world. I had to reinvent myself (quickly) and looked at the internet as the next great wave of the future. I created Inspired Business Ideas, a network of champions committed to making a positive difference on a global scale. The core philosophy is "Enterprise with a Social Agenda, a mind for profit and a heart for community." Like having fun, making funds and doing good all wrapped into one. If you want to play, click on the image below.
Four years later the dream is starting to become a reality as the first of my ventures, Motivate My City, gains traction. There are many more in the pipeline.
Update January 2013: MMC is on hold for a few months as I sort out a cashflow crunch. I was flat broke and up to my eyeballs in debt trying to bootstrap my startup. So I designed a way to make a sh*%tload of cash by eliminating the unfair disadvantages of poverty. It's called "Triangles of Power" and it's now part of my Empowered Capital strategy.
Now imagine Cape Town filled with people empowering people where every Capetonian, rich or poor, with a dream and the will to pursue it, has equal access to empowering education. That's Motivate Cape Town!
Motivate My City is the most popular venture on VC4Africa, a global platform connecting entrepreneurs and investors.
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- Entrepreneur, Investor, Educator
- What activity, project or company engages you currently?
- Motivate My City, dynamic city-wide networks that showcase and support change-makers who create a more cohesive and human society. Motivate Cape Town is the pilot.
- Who are you?
- I am 56 and live in Cape Town, South Africa. I have styled myself as a "Business Activist" because I am more interested in making a positive difference than I am in making money. I love freedom and simplicity. I am passionate about inspiring and empowering people to discover their untapped potential, to explore new possibilities. We are all awesome!
- URL to LinkedIn Profile
- http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3907536
- Twitter Username
- https://twitter.com/InspiredBizIdea
- Where can you be found on the web, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc?
- Website: http://MotivateCapeTown.ning.com
Network: http://inspiredbusinessideas.ning.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shaun.lindbergh
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MagicLifestyle
LinkedIn: http://za.linkedin.com/in/shaunlindbergh
- In what place did you last go to school or other institute of learning?
- Cedara Agricultural College, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Shaun Lindbergh's Blog
10 Strategies for Startup Success with Jason Nazar - Startups Uncensored #25
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Fast-track Recovery for Entrepreneurs after Business Failure.
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How to collaborate for equity.
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Hi Shaun
Thank you for the welcome, appreciate it.
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Thanks for the message. I've just signed up to the website.
Please check out my website www.dionysuscellular.co.za to get an idea of what we do, then perhaps we can chat soon...
Viresh
Hi Shaun,
It was great to see you too. I wish you the best with everything!
- Lani
Hi Shaun
Good to meet you and learn about Inspired Business. I do proposals, yes. I'm interested in getting involved in documentation for small businesses. I think the best, newest, most creative entrepreneurs need simpler, more useful documentation. "If it's not documented, it doesn't exist."
Best regards
Good to meet you here again in Silicon Cape. I chatted to Rob Gilmour the other day, registered, and I'm loving this space. I like how passionate the CT entrepreneurial community is.
Hi Shaun, Thanks for the invite.
Talking about empowering cape town: As a Zoe-X initiative, I would like to make Zoe-X freely available to all South African schools by year end.
Our system is unique in that it is designed to run most optimally on gprs carrier platforms, which allow us to introduce services to sites where traditional data transfer methods are problematic. We have yet to experience a site where our platform is non functional. Our rollout thus far extends to 5 provinces within SA. Shaun, I would be happy to chat with you further, please feel free to contact me grant@thecontentcompany.co.za
Hi Shaun, you're welcome. No, we haven't moved to Cape Town yet - still finalizing the logistics. I hope to get in touch once I'm that side.. I have just gone through your post How to collaborate for equity , it's spot on!
I'm in the process of sorting out my static IP hosting at home/office. It should be up and running by end of month.
I will be hosting some demo sites around mobile banking, vending (evd's and other), micro finance and I'm doing a few demo's on NFC and RFID (asst tracking and security).
I'm also interested in bringing localized marketing into the demo.
I will also host a download server (App store) for the client apps (J2ME, Andriod and IPhone/Ipad).
It's interresting times indeed in the mobile space.
I've just resigned from Kineto Mobile as the dev manager and starting out on my own.
I in the process of getting these demo's going while doing some contract work on the side :) . Have to keep the pot boiling.
Will you be going to the network event #4? Look me up we can chat about an idea I have for a software kabutz!
Hi Shaun.
The short answer to that is "creating". I like the creative process of software product development. All of it, yep even the support!
And yourself?
Cheers
Andre
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