Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Business, South Africa, Technology
On March 11, 2009 GrandCentral finally became Google Voice. I’ve used GrandCentral since November 2006 and found it to be a very useful and reliable service. David Poque does a great job of explaining GrandCentral’s original “one number for life” approach. In July 2007 GrandCentral was acquired by Google and for awhile people thought that [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology, Venture Capital
I had the distinct pleasure to visit my homeland, South Africa, to attend Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa’s first conference after forming HPV’s ZAR350mm VC fund in early 2008. Andrea Böhmert, one of HPV Africa’s co-managing partners, invited me to participate on a panel discussing “Local entrepreneurs going international”. The panel consisted of:
Herman Heunis – CEO [...]
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