Tag Archives: development

What Surprised Me About Y Combinator’s ‘Startup Ideas We’d Like To Find’

Posted 20 July 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 4 Comments

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 [...]

Knowledge, Perspective and Institutionalism

Posted 15 July 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, Random Thoughts | 5 Comments

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 [...]

Philip Copeman’s “Bill Gates – My Part In His Downfall”

Posted 09 July 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Random Thoughts | 2 Comments

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 [...]

I Need Pentium 4’s – Please!

Posted 18 June 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, South Africa | 1 Comment

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…

Erik Hersman’s AfriGadget.com Named One Of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 Sites Of 2008

Posted 17 June 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 2 Comments

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.

Afrigator Beta 2 – What Do You Think?

Posted 14 May 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 7 Comments

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 :P

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