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UCT Business School Case Study on the lack of Early Stage Venture Capital
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Morgan Jones at UCT recently did a thesis on the local early stage VC situation in SA.He has graciously offered to share his findings on SiliconCape.com

Started this discussion. Last reply by Martin Brandt Mar 30.

Venture Capital in South Africa

Even more reason to start using Angel investors!

Tagged: Capital, Venture

Replied Dec. 9, 2009

Venture Capital in South Africa

My investment decisions is usually broken up into 3 parts: 1. The Entrepreneur (not the team) 2. The Concept 3. My ability to add value to the company When I make angel investments - I don't inves…

Tagged: Capital, Venture

Replied Dec. 6, 2009

Venture Capital in South Africa
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I read this blog post today on South African Venture Capital. According to the blog, Mark Shuttleworth's firm, HBD, believes that: 'Venture capital is better spend on existing and growing firms' Th…

Tagged: Capital, Venture

Started this discussion. Last reply by Justin Stanford Dec. 9, 2009.

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Co-founder : Silicon Cape Initiative

CEO : Yola.com

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Paul Roberts replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
Gosh. Kinda late but just saw this now. I agree with Vinny. I think that we have been doing an excellent job of thinking globally, but sometimes this can bring a heap of unexpected trouble, especially around the use of languages. Not everyone onlin…
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July 25
Kim Li replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
I laughed when you said "dogged" - we are in Africa, and I say never forget that. As for businesses for the global market? Keep ideas open, just because you're in this pond doesn't mean the money's from this pond too. To me the question is, what i…
July 16
Jess Green commented on Vinny Lingham's blog post 'The beginning of a dream...'
Since recently joining this community, awesome to read this!
July 11
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July 7
Richard Watson replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
My feeling is that we're often under-served locally. I'd like more locally-targeted apps, not fewer. Yelp.com started ultra-local (SF only) and have grown hugely, so your choice of local or not really depends on your strategy. Benefits of local: -…
July 4
Hilary Albutt replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
You can tweet her, and encourage your local MP and counsellors to get involved. SiliconCape could also run an education fun filled evening for the politka by having famous models and actors who do use teh internet, like that actor from Hero's who ha…
July 2
William Kleynhans replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
Vinny Thanks for starting this post, though its seems to have drifted a bit , for me your main question was how to go from local to global, seeing that we are pre -local launch I would say the following: 1. Sort out hosting, its bloody expensive fo…
July 2
Tatenda Muregi replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
Thanks Hilary i'll look into your advice, do a bit of research based on your suggestions and be sure to ask you if direction is lost :-)
July 2
Hilary Albutt replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
You can also use vista-print.co.uk their quality only depends on your pdf quality, here is the link for the artwork specifications look at the bottom of the page. The stuff gets delivered normally within 12 days if you take the slow option and with…
July 2
Tatenda Muregi replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
Thank you Gordon for the pointers! Point 3 opens up my mind to an angle I hadn't looked at things before. Launching in SA to me was looking at "testing" out my concept with "local" users. Your point makes it a fact that with the internet, users are…
July 2
Godfrey Parkin replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
Hilary, you are of course right that code written by an independent (not-employee) programmer belongs to the programmer, unless the up-front agreement is that the code is a work for hire - in which case the agreement is that the programmer will assi…
July 1
Hilary Albutt replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
Tatenda, in some cases a trademark provides more protection. You can do a design patent at CIPRO in Pretoria for R60.00. If you need help in writing it please do ask. But the simple rule is do a search first on the patent search databases and then i…
June 30
Justin Beswick replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
Hey guys, Great responses..Interesting points raised too! I'm not an IT specialist like most on Silicon Cape..Rather, Biotechnology. However, I have gained a great deal of value from this network - especially with regard to putting structures in p…
June 30
Hilary Albutt replied to Vinny Lingham's discussion 'Going Local or Global?'
Godfrey a correction, code like any other writing is covered under automatic copyright, unless there is a specific agreement to the effect that the client gets to keep the code for exclusive use and pays the commensurate rate for that privilege the…
June 30

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The beginning of a dream...

I was reading an article in Fin24 today, and it highlighted to me how important it is to understand what Silicon Cape is, and equally what it is not. Credit belongs to the tireless efforts of countless entrepreneurs & investors with success stories & failures alike, over the many years in the Western Cape. These are t… Continue

Posted on September 18, 2009 at 8:04am — 15 Comments

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At 9:09pm on August 21, 2010, marymabou said…
Hello,
My name is mary i got you from siliconcape.com and i want to have a
good relationship with you, please i need your cooperation,
am yours mary
this is my email address,(marymabou0999@yahoo.com)
THANKS ALOT PLEASE CONSTACTS ME IN
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At 2:40pm on November 2, 2009, Thami Mvemve said…
Hi Vinny. I'm trying to find more about this company called Global Verge based in Missouri, US. Do you know anything about it?
At 9:02am on September 28, 2009, Francis Omokhape oghuma said…
interesting work you doing on the Africa technology landscape .Hoping to connect with you physically someday .
At 12:22pm on September 13, 2009, Llew Claasen said…
Kewl VK, when u arriving in SA?
At 11:19am on September 9, 2009, Juliet Pitman said…
Fab- I'm ready for it!
 
 
 

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