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Raising R50M+ VC in South Africa

March 17th, 2010 · 11 Comments

We’ve been having a lot of discussion within our company on whether it’s possible to raise large scale VC in South Africa for an Internet Startup. Sure, if you have a solid business in SA, which is breakeven or profitable, and looking for international expansion, then you can raise a large amount of VC. But [...]

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Tags: entrepreneurs · investors · start up · what i'm thinking

Charl “SEO Guru” Norman, 3 jobs, April Fools & springleap in the news

April 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: jobs · springleap · start up

springleap shuts down

April 1st, 2008 · 35 Comments

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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Tags: 2.0 · internet · springleap · start up