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I got an email yesterday asking me to recommend some tools for startups to use when starting out, things like the best way to…

Startups in the early stages that are trying to get their name and product or service out there with very little budget always seem…

I have decided that any old Joe can start a company. In fact all you have to do is have an idea. It doesn’t…

How do you deal with stress and life balance as an entrepreneur? This was the question posed on the latest Startup Edition thread. As…

As ecommerce picks up, certain interesting trends start to form that shows how startups are adapting to their individual markets. This is most prominent…

Here’s a fun one. We dug through TED‘s massive video archive and came up with seven talks by leading entrepreneurs that are bound to…

I was recently introduced to Michael Porter through a book called Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta….

We have all been watching the shopping sprees of three tech giants in the past year; heck their shopping trolleys have been driving news…

A couple of weeks ago Ventureburn asked Marc Herson CEO of 2go what the South African startup tech ecosystem needed, especially its Venture Capital…

With the popularity of mobile phones and growing internet penetration, African gaming developers are taking advantage of the growing demand for games. Africa’s tech…

Bugscore has a compelling premise: rate any person, product or business in the world. Investors are biting. The score almost anything startup headquartered in…

Today I thought I’d jot down some of my learnings from the past 15 or so years of running smallish to biggish businesses. I…

It often happens that entrepreneurs ask that question when attending events and meetings. They want a quick, accurate and succinct answer so they can…

If you watch the tech startup scene as keenly as we do, you might have noticed a trend starting to emerge over the last…

So you’ve got a startup. How sexy of you, how innovative, how new. Well I hate to burst your bubble but startups are a…

We hear about Africa’s mobile revolution almost daily, use the stats to support arguments and better understand potential markets. Potential investors and marketeers can…