Eric Edelstein

The next OpenCoffee will take place this Thursday (8 May) from 14h00 at Sinns in Wembley Square (venue details at http://www.wembleysquare.co.za/).
We’ll be trying something a little different this month at the OpenCoffee meetup, and give it a dash of structure to encourage networking. Every attendee will get a colour-coded name tag to indicate their service [...]

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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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I’d like to thank…
EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU who voted for me in the 2008 SA Blog awards first round which got me nominated as one of the 10 finalists for “Best SA Business” blog.
I’m speechless & honoured.
But not speechless or honoured enough as I’ve still got the Chutzpah to ask you to vote [...]

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I’ve been speaking to a number of journalists in South Africa and abroad recently about the state of the angel investor market in South Africa.
The Sunday Times published some of my comments yesterday.
I look forward to the day when entrepreneurs have easier access in South Africa to the Angel network.

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A few weeks ago, I briefly mentioned a new investment opportunity in the travel portal space in which I had taken an investment.
Justin Time have now announced the launch of their distress inventory business - 11th may according to the article on myBroadBand.co.za and 22nd May according to the Justin-Time website.
What is distress inventory? (from [...]

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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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