Cape Town – One of the most influential players in the United States’ Silicon Valley and in companies like YouTube, PayPal and Google is a South African. Technology entrepreneur Roelof Botha was in the country last week to receive an honorary PhD from Stellenbosch University. Naspers chief executive Koos Bekker calls Botha one of the [...]

America’s Silicon Valley is a combination of different factors all bought together in one place. It is a fearsome combination of experienced people, capital and ideas. Several attempts have been made to put in place in Africa the start-up and early stage capital required to create the funding end but they have in the past [...]

Business strategists and government officials routinely visit Silicon Valley in hopes of learning how to emulate the area’s wildly successful startup culture. Now, thanks to a new book byLinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Ben Casnocha, the curious can save themselves the plane ticket. The Start-Up of You, which is written mostly in Hoffman’s voice, [...]

With offices in London, Cape Town and Joburg, Quirk Marketing’s founder and CEO Rob Stokes is a leading modern-day South African entrepreneur. He’s a straight-shooting tech cowboy in the Wild West of social media – forever criss-crossing the globe to attend tech seminars and marketing conferences as a guest speaker. Rocking up at Quirk’s Cape [...]

Global beer brewer SAB (South African Breweries)’s foundation on Monday announced winners of its inaugural Innovation Awards, saying that it wanted to promote entrepreneurship in SA. SAB chairman Cyril Ramaphosa hosted the awards ceremony in Sandton. The awards are intended to recognise unique product inventions which work to improve the lives of women, the youth, [...]