Mike Stopforth

After over a year working out of a bit of a skanky joint, we decided we wanted our own space (and also just got too big) and can officially announce the new residence of Cerebra on the first floor (middle suite), Block F, Rochester Place, 173 Rivonia Rd. That’s just after the Harley Davidson [...]

I’ve had this review saved in my WordPress drafts for some time now, but after I noticed that Saul was kind enough to mention my blog in his post I felt a bit guilty that I hadn’t published it yet. So here goes…
Saul Kropman authors The Outlet - “Interesting commentary for interesting people” [...]

Congratulations to the following three suggestions for improvements to Afrigator, which according to my records, where the leading submissions on the Muti Hot page last night at 22h00:

Nic Haralambous
Nic suggested that we bring competitive rankings back to Afrigator.
In my honest opinion I think Afrigator has lost some fight since it decided not to rank blogs [...]

It’s our first birthday and in keeping with the spirit of innovation and community we’d like to ask you - the dudes who actually make Afrigator tick - to help us come up with some innovative new ideas for improving the experience, look, feel or whatever of the site…
Announcing the ‘1 TH1NG‘ Afrigator birthday competition!
Submit [...]

While the blogosphere has it’s conflicting opinions about the Springleap SEO competition Eric Edelstein has watched his new baby’s rankings soar up the charts.
Springleap.com, for those of you who don’t know, is a site that showcases the T-shirt designs of artists (or just ordinary budding designers like you maybe) on a monthly basis - the [...]

To all that attended the 27dinner in Jozi tonight, thanks for making it an awesome success. Special thanks goes to the speakers - Gareth from Buzzfuse (congrats on the recent growth guys!), Jonathan Miller from ForgeBusiness (viva Las Vegas!), Jo Duxbury from Freelancentral (and the Oscar for the best PPT slides in history goes [...]

Financial bootstrapping is a term used to cover different methods for avoiding using the financial resources of external investors. Bootstrapping can be defined as “a collection of methods used to minimize the amount of outside debt and equity financing needed from banks and investors” (Ebben and Johnsen, 2006:853)
According to Wikipedia, financial or business bootstrapping is [...]

Henk Kleynhans (CEO of Skyrove) and I once met for coffee at Sandton City while he was up from Cape Town to talk about our industry, our respective businesses and life in general. We hit it off straight away - he’s a smart, likable guy. Somewhere during our chat, he has since reminded [...]

As you know I’m lucky enough to be in Las Vegas at the Microsoft MIX08 conference. Last night I joined the Microsoft guys for a superb meal at Morel’s, after which Grant Shippey decided to try our luck at a little gambling. We hit the roulette table, and to cut a long story [...]

This video of the Web 2.0 business model panel was taken by Duncan Riley from TechCrunch yesterday. It’s well worth a watch with interesting discussion and comments from Australian Chris Saad (incredibly smart founder of dataportability.org), Tim Kendall from Facebook, Loic Le Meur of Seesmic and Bryan Biniak, founder of Jacked.

What are your comments [...]