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Last week was a great one for Nigerian startups — for the second year in a row, they filled up more slots at DEMO…

I would like you to do a small quiz built by a person I admire a lot: Dan Ariely, the behavioural scientist. The quiz…

Online portals are a must for every business model now. Being online can bring great benefits to new business owners who want to get…

Earlier this week, Ventureburn unveiled DEMO Africa’s top 30 startups for 2015. While attention is being given to Ivory Coast whose startup scene is…

Just two blocks up the road from where she pitched her latest startup at Seedstars World recently, sits the headquarters of NicheStreem — entrepreneur…

Machine learning is a complicated subject. First experimented with by computer scientist Arthur Samuel back in 1956, the American eventually managed to build a program…

Almost 50 years ago, when Emma Meyer started Auto Number Plates with her now late husband Nico, the couple only had determination on their…

I have always been a sucker for the dramatic, suspenseful and mysterious and the upcoming horror game, Allison Road, seems to be hitting every…

With more and more South African entrepreneurs starting businesses in response to the country’s unique challenges, it’s no wonder that, out of the 30…

A decade ago, no one in South Africa knew what the terms angel and tech startups meant. People were progressively adjusting to a new…

The youth bears the brunt of of South Africa’s unemployment crises. Ranked third highest in the world, a 2014 report by the World Economic…

Managers. We all have to deal with some version of them. Even the companies claiming they have a flat organisation structure. There’s always someone…

The fly makes the world go round. While many find these critters repulsive, they actually play a very important role in how we get…