Mike Stopforth

Thanks to Neville’s Muti link I’ve just picked up on a very intriguing post by Y Combinator, the seed-funding venture firm built around Web 2.0 startups, talking about ideas they’d invest in.
Being a bit of an entrepreneur myself I was immediately drawn to the post, and a couple of things surprised me…

First of [...]

One of the most inspirational characters I’ve ever met is a guy by the name of Rich Mulholland. Rich runs two companies, Missing Link and Thunk!, the former being a ‘presentation strategy company’ and the latter a ‘perspective lab’.  Rich’s story is an inspiring one - having progressed from rock band roadie to uber-successful [...]

On the back of the official announcement of Bill Gates’ last day as a full time Microsoft employee, this thought-provoking article by Philip Copeman, who is the Project Leader of TurboCASH Accounting - “the worlds leading Open Source Accounting package.”
Regardless of which side of the open source / proprietary software fence you sit, it’s worth [...]

Yes, it’s an odd request, but I have a good mate who is driving a very worthy project called Siyakhula (we are growing) that seeks to offer basic PC and Office instruction at a drastically reduced rate to disadvantaged communities, and he needs about 25 decent PC’s…

My good mate Erik Hersman is passionate about techology and passionate about Africa. He has combined these brilliantly in the recent past in the shape of projects like Ushahidi and AfriGadget. He’s been rewarded for his outstanding efforts by having AfriGadget named as one of TIME Magazine’s 50 top sites of 2008 alongside the likes of Yahoo! Answers Health.com, Mint and more.

So as usual I’m the last person to get around to posting that our little project has grown up again.  But then again I’m the only person who really works for a living

Charl Norman scooped the launch announcement this morning, and Justin updated the Afrigator blog with a list of cool features the new version boasts.