A technology start-up’s biggest enemy is technology itself, says local business incubator Aurik Business Accelerator. Aurik CEO Pavlo Phitidis says technology innovation often becomes the be all and end all of a start-up and many of the other business processes get left behind.
Finding locations on GPS devices can sometimes be a pain. Entering address information can take a long time. And enter one thing wrong, and you have to start again. Now, though, SA start-up Waytag has developed a solution it says will make it easier for people to find what they’re looking for in navigation software
An easy-to-use, simple and global micropayments system for publishers — it’s long been the missing link in the digital content game, especially for smaller publishers. Now, three SA Web entrepreneurs hope to plug the gap. Saul Kropman, Toby Kurien and Jason Kramer, who head up start-up technology business JTS Technology Concepts, have developed a micropayments system called Cred that they say will make it easy for publishers
Imagine being paid US$15 000, or more than R100 000, for two hours of work. That’s what Cape Town-based start-up Idea Bounty shelled out recently for an idea that barely filled an A4 piece of paper
Even when she was a child, Barbara Mallinson knew that one day she would start her own business. Schooled in Johannesburg, and armed with a business science degree from the University of Cape Town, Mallinson moved to the UK to gain international experience. But after a short stint in marketing roles in big companies there, [...]
A start-up investment model developed by SA entrepreneur Eve Dmochowska and her colleagues to solve key problems in SA start-up financing proved a big hit at the annual South by South West Interactive festival held in Austin, Texas earlier this week
TechCentral, SA’s source of quality technology news and analysis, is pleased to introduce a new section to the website this week focused on the country’s technology start-ups. In spite of the huge challenges facing SA’s start-up community — lack of funding sources, government and regulatory red tape, and expensive Internet connections — the country has [...]
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