So you want to raise funding? Either an angel round or a Series A round, from the HOT investors. An angel or VC fund in either New York, Boston or Silicon Valley? Yes, there have been cases where entrepreneurs have gone to the “Send me your pitch” page, and emerge with bucket-loads [...]

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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD (see below). For the last 2 years, we have worked NON STOP to build some new Internet based software which we think has the potential to change the world. For the first year we strategised, and the following year we recruited a team and started developing.
We still have a way to [...]

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7th October 2009
For immediate release
Cape Town based Internet Startup, Fashion Evolution Holdings, has
raised a further R4M ($0.5M) in its second round of funding, with the
aim of commercialising its social network, crowdsourcing, & eCommerce
web based software platform, to be used to launch further internal
brands, as well as being used for powering 3rd party websites.
Fashion Evolution’s first [...]

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Tonight I was PRIVILEGED to listen, be inspired, motivated, learn and meet Dr Carnie Matheson. I have an oberservation & favour to ask of Dr Matheson:
The Favour: I don’t want you to fly down to Cape Town to mentor me! Rather, whenever it suits you, I’d like to fly up to JHB, and take you [...]

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I’ve long had huge admiration for Ronnie Apteker who founded Internet Solutions many years ago, and now spends his time on a variety of projects and ventures including producing South African films, and launching and investing in start-up’s.
A few days ago, Justin Drennan from Internet Start-up wantitall.co.za mentioned springleap in a wantitall newsletter.
When I was [...]

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