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What makes the Cape a startup hub?
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I came across this wiki from Union Square Ventures last week, about what makes NY a great place for startups.i'm not going to duplicate the contents here but have a look at :…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Tim Lind Nov 19, 2009.

 

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Tomas Van den Berckt is attending Ravini Moodley's event
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Cape Town Launch of the Institute of Inventors and Innovators at Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Chemical Engineering Building, Upper Campus, UCT

February 10, 2011 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Join us to learn more about the Institute, its services and how it can help you. From concept to commercialization.In addition, Martin Russell from JWT will present on trends and cutting edge technologies in his talk “100 Things to watch in 2011”The Institute of Inventors and Innovators is a non-profit organisation. RSVP to info@iii.org.zaSee More
Feb 7, 2011
Tomas Van den Berckt is attending Justin Hartman's event

The Next Silicon Cape Networking Event at The Old Biscuit Mill

March 31, 2010 from 6pm to 11pm
Hi there clever and beautiful people of the Silicon Cape.You are called upon to attend the second Silicon Cape Networking Event.We have an extremely exciting line-up of informative entertainment planned for the evening.* To keep things light hearted and hilarious, we have roped in one of South Africa's Most Amazing entertainers, Rob van Vuuren (from Corne and Twakkie fame), as the MC;* Justin Stanford will give us a short and sweet update on what's been happening in the Silicon Cape;* One of…See More
Mar 30, 2010
Tomas Van den Berckt and Jacques Struwig are now friends
Dec 2, 2009
Mark Levitt and Tomas Van den Berckt are now friends
Nov 25, 2009
Tim Lind replied to Tomas Van den Berckt's discussion What makes the Cape a startup hub?
"At first this may quite hard to achieve. How do we get international level technical innovators (which breeds more int level innovators), when we haven't got any of them around? We need to uncover the skills we have, and use them to breed more…"
Nov 19, 2009
Tim Lind replied to Tomas Van den Berckt's discussion What makes the Cape a startup hub?
"From the article: " Diversity of scale: big organizations and little ones existing cheek-by-jowl. The big ones seed the little ones with talent, demand for services, and provide foundational services that are inputs to little-company business…"
Nov 19, 2009
Tomas Van den Berckt is attending Allister Kreft's event

1st Silicon Cape Networking Event at The Grand Daddy, 38 Long Street, Cape Town

November 26, 2009 from 6:30pm to 10pm
Come and join fellow Silicon Cape community members for the first regular networking evening, aimed at promoting interaction between all participants, from entrepreneurs and service providers through to investors.The keynote speaker for the evening will be Mark Levitt, CEO of Chesscube, who recently raised R10m from local venture capital firm InVenFin. Mark will be talking about how he built a global-facing online company from Cape Town, with a worldwide revenue and user base.Comedian Mark…See More
Nov 10, 2009
Deon C. Louw left a comment for Tomas Van den Berckt
"Free gift when you take this survey. Please participate in this survey regarding sales and marketing techniques in Cape Town. You have the options to view the results of the survey at the end of the month. A free gift of Oxygen Office Professional…"
Nov 6, 2009
Tomas Van den Berckt replied to Justin Stanford's discussion The new rules of angel investing
"also interesting from Chris Dixon's blog where he warns about the dangers of getting 'big' VCs in too early: "As has been widely noted, startups – especially internet-related ones – require far less capital today…"
Oct 31, 2009
Tomas Van den Berckt replied to Gavin Harvett's discussion Crowdfunding... Can it be useful?
"Useful yes, but just make sure that you don't end up with an IP ownership nightmare."
Oct 31, 2009
Tomas Van den Berckt is attending Jenny McKinnell's event

Learn how to protect your intellectual property at Bandwidth Barn, 5th floor 125 Buitengracht Street building, Cape Town

October 30, 2009 from 1pm to 3pm
Cape IT Initiative (CITI) is running a free workshop for ICT entrepreneurs and other interested individuals on how to protect their intellectual property (IP) (eg ideas, software, etc). It will be presented by Warren Weertman, a lawyer at Bowman Gilfillan who is passionate about ICT. Visit the CITI website to find out more (www.citi.org.za). RSVP to jenny@citi.org.za. Space is limited. First come first served.
Oct 27, 2009
Tomas Van den Berckt and Heinrich Kotze are now friends
Oct 17, 2009
Tomas Van den Berckt replied to Shane Swinton's discussion Siliconcape Job Board
"just in case any techie is reading this... this position is still open: http://careers.clicks2customers.com/index.php?m=portal&a=details&jobOrderID=70638"
Oct 13, 2009
Tomas Van den Berckt replied to Arthur Charles Van Wyk's discussion Picking your collective brain..
"Hi Arthur, The medical industry is worth a tons of money and that's why a lot of companies are entering the field. Most notably Google (with it's Google Health initiative) and Microsoft. Both these companies have faced stiff resistance in…"
Oct 13, 2009
Tomas Van den Berckt replied to JP van der Spuy's discussion Introduce your Startup to the Silicon Cape Community
"Hi Anton, i'm quite intrigued by your idea and i'm sure many other people are too... just one piece of advise though: you need to a better website if you're trying to promote your company and your products. You are probably missing…"
Oct 9, 2009
Tomas Van den Berckt and Joseph C Lawrence are now friends
Oct 8, 2009

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Commercial Executive at Clicks2customers.com

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