My successful 2011 NYC Marathon fundraiser made it clear: My business partners & friends like to see me sweat! This article in german? Please go to my german blog! Since then I also explored the …
Category: South Africa
Why a .CAPETOWN Top Level Domain will unlock the City’s potential
Not too many know, that I’ve been involved with ICANN’s process of setting up new TLDs since 2009. With 24 days left to register and no initiative in sight to establish a .CAPETOWN for them …
The SA weather service amendment bill and why it kills off private competition
Disclaimer: I write this as the owner of weather.co.za – a privately held weather forecasting site that has definite plans to extend it’s offerings to launch and produce it’s own weather forecasts and warning data very …
The biggest .co.za domain hosting companies
People who know me, know that I’m 1. into domain names (owning quite some .co.za them, not only weather.co.za, (fly-)nationwide.co.za and runner.co.za 🙂 and 2. into stats so I wanted to share some findings that I found to …
Angel Investors Group in South Africa presentation
Update from 2014: Since writing these blogposts on angel investments in South Africa in 2008 and 2011 I became an advisor and Angel Investor at Startup-Incubator Springlab. Please pitch your startup to Springlab, if you’re …
Groupon acquires Twangoo but misses groupon.co.za
To my knowledge, this was scheduled to released on Friday, but Groupon Inc. just issued this press release, where they announce: CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Groupon (http://www.groupon.com) announces the launch of Groupon India, Groupon Israel and Groupon South …
Groupon to launch in South Africa in cooperation with Twangoo
As the whole startup world is going crazy over Groupon and it’s alleged 6 billion $ (US, not Zimbabwean!) offer from Google, I just want to look onto the tiny South African market, where it …
Dead Whale removed on Cape Town promenade…
It was this morning that I read via bradley on twitter that a Whale was currently removed from the Sea Point promenade. I was on the scene a few minutes later and could shoot the …
Cape Town Entrepreneur Stephan Ekbergh sells Travelstart Europe!
Great news for Stephan Ekbergh and for South African entrepreneurs hoping to make it big! My Friend Pip just found this story: eTRAVELi acquires the european arm of their competitor Travelstart – this adds just …
Google ruling Africa with new mobile services
Google’s approach of rolling out their technology gradually throughout the world showed great success when conquering western markets and seemed to work OK for africa aswell. No other search engine had it’s user interface translated …