The Boardroom ViewIn South African boardrooms, AI has shifted from curiosity to competitive necessity. Executives are asking not whether to adopt AI, but how…
Music startups: your entire product is probably just a feature
If startups have a one in 10 chance of surviving, music startups’ odds must be one in 10 000. The industry’s most famous success…
World of Avatar cuts funding to Boom.fm amid Mxit layoffs [Update]
Online social music startup Boom.fm is set to close down after its funding was withdrawn by investment incubator hybrid World of Avatar. In an…
HealthQ: groundbreaking African startup launches, attracts funding, blows minds
When we broke the story about HealthQ’s open source metabolic chamber — the first of its kind in the world — we came away…
Why we’re not quite ready for the hardware startup renaissance
“The Hardware Renaissance”. It’s unmissable. Paul Graham has noticed it and, certainly, my credit card has. Where once, entrepreneurs turned to software to form…
