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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