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You may not be familiar yet with South-East Asia, so here’s a big picture to give an understanding on why it matters when it…

In late 2011 Peter Allestorfer and Manuel Koser launched Zando — a Rocket Internet-backed platform where South Africans can buy clothes and other fashion…

Singapore and Hong Kong are Southeast Asia’s famous city-states. Both are offshore financial centres for the rest of Asia (and beyond), with a strong…

Ventureburn recently posted an article about startups trying to pop Africa’s remittance bubble. I applaud the efforts of these startups in trying to address…

The South African ecommerce landscape is at an exciting stage where both big players like Takealot and niche ones like League of Beers are…

Any startup using email as their primary mode of communication when it comes to managing projects should understand that it takes an unnecessary amount…

In times of distress, institutions have curators to look after them, people don’t. This is perhaps the biggest lesson for consumers from the African…

Weddings are a big deal. Rightly so, apart from consolidating love and all that, the wedding market scoops up a massive US$50-billion in the…

The announcement of the judges for the South African version of Dragons’ Den was pretty much the headline news of the week in the…

Remittance is a massive cash cow in Africa and the rest of the developing world. The service fees for transacting money from across the…

A little more than a year ago, I had breakfast with Keet Van Zyl, from Knife Capital. He told me he was about to…

If I ask you to name one startup from each of the BRICS countries, chances are you will stutter Alibaba, maybe Vkontakte, and then…

The sharing economy is a really exciting concept. The idea has been around for a decade now and popularised by internet startups like the…

South Africa is getting its own version of the hit reality series Dragons’ Den. Business giants Lebo Gunguluza, Vusi Thembekwayo, Polo Leteka Radebe, Gil…

Built in Africa focuses on entrepreneurs, startups and technologies that hail from the continent and empower its citizens. The miracle of birth is still…

We have moved to a place in the business world where our customers are always looking for something different. In many industries, they have…