Eric Edelstein

On Sunday I attended Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) in Cape Town to remember the 6 Million Jewish people.
This year, instead of the Paperclips method of trying to emphasise the magnitude of such a large number (6 Million is so large that it’s difficult to visualise), the speaker gave 6 names. He asked the audience [...]

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Another Blog Aggregator?
For a few months I’ve wanted to get involved in a blog aggregator. I like the idea of summarising the blogging horizon and believe that bloggers opinions in South Africa (and worldwide) are going to be more important in the future.
So I approached some of the other blog aggregators that have recently launched [...]

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If you were watching the movie on MNET tonight, and didn’t feel something (it could have been a variety of emotions) where 20-year-old Francis Ouimet defeated his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman, Harry Vardon, then you need to work on your EQ in a big way.
I only managed to watch the second half of [...]

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When I set up Clicks2Customers and incuBeta a few years back, one of our main objectives was to GO GLOBAL.
We considered the South African Internet industry to be years behind the rest of the world, and realised that there was far more money to be made internationally than in South Africa.
I remember a few times [...]

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Date: Thursday 19th April (this coming Thursday)
Time: 18:00 (6pm)
Venue: Extreme Hotel, Corner New Church and Bree Streets, CAPE TOWN, Western Cape, South Africa Tel: +2721 488 2555
Charge: Free
Register (optional - if you prefer to just show up on the day, that’s fine as well): entrepreneur.meetup.com/1144/
Facebook Group: OpenCoffeeClub Cape Town

CoffeeClub is exploding around the world - [...]

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A friend who lives overseas, (lets call him W), got into a discussion with me on skype the other day. He’s been in IT for a number of years, and has considerable experience in fixing networks, and managing vast amounts of computers. But does he have business experience, a track record, his own financing etc. [...]

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I thought this was quite ironic. Moneyweb had an article this morning about other parties being implicated in the Arthur Brown Fidentia affair - one of these parties they were speaking about was ABSA bank - and who was the main advertiser on the page?

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Most business’s i’m involved in are Internet centric.
However, there are a few offline, traditional business’s that I spend some of my time on - one of them, the eSquared Fashion Stores, has showed me a major advantage of doing business as an Internet Company in South Africa.
This week the eSquared shop in Durban had it’s [...]

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