Instalment 3 of the VeloCITI business incubation program dealt with Finance, an area many entrepreneurs need lots of help with. Knowing that we might all be intimidated with this session looming ahead of us, Tony Mallam of cape Venture Partners assured us he’d ease us into the subject. The Finance module is an optional one, […]
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VeloCITI Business Development Course
Period: April 2008 – October 2008 VeloCITI (Business Incubation Programme – CITI.org.za) Location: South Africa , Buitengracht Street Cape Town Detail: Accepted onto a government sponsored business development programme called VeloCITI which takes 15 startup tech companies through the steps in getting our businesses off the ground from scratch. I wrote about my experiences attending the course on […]
The benefits of a free wordpress.com website for startups
Whether you are a small business just starting out, or an organisation which does not currently have the funds to develop or host your own website, you’re probably still investigating ways of getting online in some way or another. It’s a fact of life for most businesses in this modern age, that being online is […]
Time to refresh my GTD approach with GTDinbox for gmail
Having spoken a bit about GTD (Getting Things Done) in the past and being a fan of the personal productivity system, I seem to be making all the major productivity mistakes of late. So I made a mental note in the last few weeks to start taking steps to fix some of these problems, but […]
Springwise: See-saw power for schools
Human powered energy generators are on the rise and many different designs have been surfacing in the last year or so. This one uses an existing fun activity to produce some much needed energy. Daniel Sheridan, a student in consumer product design, won three separate awards amounting to GBP 5,500 earlier this year for his […]
WordPress Meetup#3 Planning Gains momentum
It’s officially the first event I’ve been involved in organising in the blogging community and it’s been a great experience thus far. There’s been alot of interest as well as sponsorship and speaking offers which makes my task alot easier. What we need now is to get the message out there and get people to […]