Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology, Venture Capital
I previously blogged about SynthaSite‘s charismatic CEO, Vinny Lingham (Wow, I see Vinny has been selected as a 2009 Young Global Leader!). SynthaSite seems to be growing by leaps and bounds amid all the bad economic news. On February 17, 2009 Synthasite announced a $20mm in second round funding from Reinet Investments. I received this [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology
Listed below are some of the best websites from Africa and South Africa. Another good source of African IT news is ITWeb. My friend Thomas Otter writes some very insightful posts about technology in South Africa. Google recently expanded into Africa as well. Google has a specific site for South Africa. Synthasite is a site where [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology
Recently Vinny Lingham stepped down from his post as chief strategy officer of IncuBeta, the online marketing company he co-founded, to concentrate on the interests of his venture capital company, Lingham Capital and more specifically on Synthasite. Lingham, along with his wife, Charlene, and a couple of friends started IncuBeta in 2003 and have grown [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Saas, Technology
Amazon and Google are launching some amazing services these days. Amazon’s services include: Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3) and now Flexible Payments Service. These services may be accessed via APIs (web services) and are used by developers to introduce new products and services. Amazon charges a small fee for using their [...]
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