Unfortunately the President has published an amendment to the Exchange Control Regulations this month to provide for an expansive new definition of "capital" to include all forms of intellectual property.  This means that Reserve Bank approval is again required before you can sell IP ownership to a foreign person or corporation.

However, for those interested in democracy and law, there is a question mark over the validity of the amendment to the regulation...

In terms of…

Umuntu revolutionising content gathering and publishing across Africa…

What is it?

Google drive acts like an external drive where folders of all documents and media can be kept on the web and on your computer or any mobile device. You can access Google Drive and edit presentations, documents, set up events and share this information and have others comment on it while you’re busy. You can include media such as videos, photos,…

By creating effective call-to-action in your internet marketing you can drive your business to get every potential client clicking on your page! Telling people what to do seems easy enough. If someone is sick tell them “Go to Doctor Swindon”! If someone’s hungry you tell them “Go eat a burger!” This becomes…

I had a chat to Jess Green about being a tech entrepreneur in SA, whoc certainly has the pedigree after starting and selling off http://www.ubuntudeal.co.za/. Jess shared some great insights. 

See other interviews on No Picket Fence…

Money. It’s what all Entrepreneurs (like those that join No Picket Fence) need to get their businesses off the ground, and to keep the lights on. How do you get it?

That’s what we spoke to Brett Commaille, CEO of AngleHub about. We explored the world of Angel…

Read this article : http://www.fanews.co.za/article.asp?Healthcare~6

Its seems that the planning is going ahead strong. Note the quote "A future healthcare environment could therefore exist with medical schemes as “top up” for services not readily available on NHI."

The question is WHAT will be available in the NHI and what not. 

Biologics ? Nope…

Code Campus is an initiative to reach out and train bright young people that are without the funds to study full-time after finishing school. We'd like to turn these bright minds into web developers in one year, the initiative however,  runs much deeper than just training.

We aim to also build and grow internet startups as part of training, managed and developed by senior developers, university graduates seeking experience and the students.



We know exactly what we…

Launched on October 8, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa, by two South African tech entrepreneurs, Justin Stanford and Vinny Lingham, Founder and CEO of Yola, the Silicon Cape Initiative (Silicon Cape) has grown to become a champion for technology startups not only in the Western Cape but also in the whole of South Africa.

Representatives from educational institutions, technology start-ups, established businesses, local and national government, Non Profit…

Minutes of “Town Hall Event”

Present: Exco members & Community members

Slide show available here …

You have a great idea, all your friends and family say you're brilliant. You take the decision that you're going to go for it. Now comes the hard part. You have no funds and you don't know how access funds. This is the greatest challenge facing entrepeneurs.

Go to facebook page at tblcapital or website at www.tblcapital.co.za

For some free advice, contact me at dave@tblcapital.co.za

Struto is proud to announce that we are entering the South African market. We have identified that Inbound Marketing opportunities for South African businesses is somewhat limited and as such we feel that in these tough economic times, businesses need all the help they can get.

As HubSpot Certified…

Being an entrepreneur will challenge you mentally and emotionally.

Being an entrepreneur is a tough business. The emotions run high - and low - and many days it's just hard to keep focused on what you need to do. It takes great discipline just to stay clear and level-headed. This of course affects how you make business decisions and how you implement your strategic vision.

For each of us, the emotional and mental challenges may be very different. The…

We often get asked by some about who could provide them web hosting services.

In response to those inquiries, I have compiled a table of South African web hosts.

This list includes suppliers who are able to accommodate needs for web hosting, which range from those of the small home-based users to those of the big corporations.

Our community will be able to refer back in future to…

A report which just came from "Newvem" claims that an alarmingly high number of Amazon's Cloud users follow shocking implementation practices.
The mistakes which are mostly caused by confusion when making changes and scaling up AWS, leaves those users' data and systems highly vulnerable to compromise.
For more details of  their 5 biggest mistakes, read this report.

evly's looking for a couple people to join our Cape Town team.

* Junior / Mid level .net developer (apply on our linkedin posting, or email eric - details below)

* design / css intern (for details of the intern position, email eric AT evly DOT com)

here's a few details of the dev position - http://lnkd.in/_yMsKf

We're a Cape Town based internet startup looking to expand our team with a competent…

On the 7th June 2012 The Silicon Cape Academy hosted "Redefining E-commerce Footfall and Checkout" with Andre De Wet of PriceCheck at the Alba Lounge. 

For those who were not able to attend please find the slide show that was presented. 

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Sorry about the signage pun ......... 

We are happy to see our signage going up on the wall of our new offices at  !WaytagHQ  (our…

TaxTim is a web based digital tax assistant who asks you simple…

Mobiflock, the mobile safety and security company, announced the commercial launch of its parental control service for smartphonesand tablets. In addition, Mobiflock released a raft of new features and services for its customers:

• web…