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 …
Tag: South Africa
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 …
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 …
Free Weather forecast for your homepage and iGoogle!
It’s along time since we last updated anything on weather.co.za but today I’m happy to add the most-requested feature: Weather widgets are here! You can finally add a button to your homepage with the weather …
Let the summer begin – I’m back in Cape Town
If you read my social network statuses around October 6th: I’m happily back in South Africa and I intend to stay here for all summer, do lotsa business and live life. I’m not alone anymore, …
weather.co.za is finally live!
We’re happy to announce that we’ve finally launched the new weather.co.za. We just started with a basic 5-day weather forecast service that gives you the weather for more than 90 locations in South Africa without …
Angel Investments in South Africa…
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 …
Randolf in Cape Town
It’s now more than a month that I arrived back in Cape Town and lots of things happened but I never got a blogpost ready to talk about these events. Life here is as different …