Eric Edelstein

When describing springleap since we launched a few weeks ago, the only word that accurately describes it is “chaotic”. I haven’t slept much!
Here’s a quick summary of springleap stuff keeping me busy over the last week…
Charl Norman is an SEO GURU. That’s right, Charl, won the springleap SEO competition by getting his bandwidth blog website [...]

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IF YOU JUST SCANNED THIS BLOG POST AND DIDN’T CLICK ON THE LINK AT THE BOTTOM TO http://www.springleap.com/posts/view/springleap-shuts-down THIS POSTING WAS A JOKE FOR APRIL FOOLS - THANKS FOR THE HUNDREDS (AND I MEAN HUNDREDS) OF EMAILS, TELEPHONE CALLS, TWITTER MESSAGES, SMS’S, AND OTHER COMMUNICATION I RECEIVED - IT MEANS SOOOOO MUCH TO ME THAT [...]

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South Africa’s really starting to step up the notch with Internet start-up’s. Vinny might have headed to Silicon Valley, but a couple of us are determined to try get our start-up’s to work in South Africa. (Nic - that should please you - guys, if you haven’t taken a look at the brilliant new SA [...]

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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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Open Coffee founder, Saul Klein, let me know today that a new incubator for early stage Internet Start-Up’s has launched.
Seedcamp is inviting applications from new start-up’s, are choosing 20 for the selection round, and the winning 5 will be given 50 Thousand Pounds seed capital for a 10% stake, together with intense mentoring and introductions [...]

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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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I was part of the 100 strong audience last night to watch Founder of the Creative Commons and author of the book Free Culture, Professor Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is in South Africa with the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, to talk about “freedom of the Internet”.
(…and GUESS which row I was sitting in?)
I’d [...]

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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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