More and more people have been expressing their frustration and fear about the growing problem of extortion in South Africa. It’s no longer limited to whispers or isolated incidents—it’s become a nationwide issue that affects …
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Unfinished business I: Collect donations with Amazon Affiliate
I got a quick business idea I want to share with you: Thousands of authors, bands and product brands add an Amazon link to their product on their homepages and social media channels. They do …
Is RASA sending this SMS only to me?
Dear Restaurant Association of South Africa (RASA), As much as I was happy seeing my Beerhouse win your Top100 Rosetta Award of Service Excellence in 2016 and I appreciated your telephone call today, that we will be listed as one of 100 …
Renewable energy – the fourth revolution ahead of us
I do 100% believe in the energy supply of our future being all renewable and would have started a business in the (renewable) energy sector long ago, If I wasn’t totally committed to drive the …
Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2015 in Kenya and a lesson in personal branding.
More than 1500 entrepreneurs and policy makers from all(!) over the world flocked to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya, from July 24th-26th. Due to my affiliation with the Ampion Venture Bus, I was privileged …
Springlab & Me. Why I advise an african incubator
TL;DR I recently became the advisor and Angel Investor for the Startup-Incubator Springlab. Springlabs launch announcement was already covered by Ventureburn and you can find a copy of our official press release below. Springlab is currently …
how Beerhouse was born one late night…
What takes a well established Online Marketer to become a restaurateur? The truth is, that while I am still involved in quite some online activities, my Beerhouse is here to stay and about to branch to Joburg and …
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 …
3Gstore.de sold for 135 000 Euro
German blog: 3Gstore.de nach Bieterkampf für €135.000 verkauft This news was supposed to break with a (german languaged) press release by Sedo, but as a domainer blog broke the news I don’t want to be …
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 …