Are you an entrepreneur running a small business? Don’t have or can’t afford a personal assistant to help you with tedious tasks that distract you from more important work? A new Cape Town-based Web start-up, Lessfuss, has been launched that hopes to make money
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mLab Southern Africa, which provides incubation support to mobile developers and entrepreneurs, will establish a presence in SA in September when it opens its head office at The Innovation Hub in Pretoria. Its aim is to provide subsidised office space
Startup Weekend, a popular US event that gets entrepreneurs, developers, designers and marketers together to discuss and generate ideas for start-ups, is coming to SA, with two weekends planned for later this month. Started in the Boulder, Colorado
10Layer, the Johannesburg-based technology start-up building a publishing framework and content management system for online publishers, has landed a deal with the Mail & Guardian to power the weekly newspaper’s website
Founded in 2010, Cape Town-based start-up TrustFabric wants to give consumers control over how businesses are allowed to contact them, while letting businesses keep their customer databases up to date. Under the Consumer Protection Act
A new flight aggregator start-up website, CompareTravel, wants to make it easier for SA consumers to compare ticket prices for domestic flights on any of the number of low-cost airlines that have taken flight in the past decade. The biggest
Could Africa have its own giant cellphone manufacturer like Nokia or HTC? Alpesh Patel, founder of start-up Mi-Fone, thinks so. Patel, who was born in Uganda and holds SA citizenship, launched the company three years ago after
Cape Town start-up Yastic has taken SMS technology and combined it with online “penny auctions” to bring text-based bidding to SA. Founder and CEO Richard Craib says using SMS to submit bids for products
Well-known financial guru and entrepreneur Simon Brown has unveiled his latest start-up business, JustOneLap.com, meant to bring lessons about finance and trading to ordinary
For any business with an online presence, having an easily accessible and feature-rich contact page is vital. A new SA start-up, Formsly, has been launched to tackle this niche market