Episode 58: Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs
Listen (29 min, 30 seconds)This week The Digital Edge takes a trip down to the Silicon Cape to speak to five local entrepreneurs that are blazing a path for the South African digital space. With issues like funding, securing talent and taking an idea international being issues for any local endevour, we speak to these local entrepreneurs to understand how they overcame these issues.
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Guests:
Patrick Kayton:
Patrick is the founder of Cognician, a powerful thinking assistant software application for the iPhone and web.
Sheraan Amod:
Sheraan is the 24 year-old Co-Founder of Personera.com, a global personalized publishing service offering useful print products enhanced with Facebook content. In 2009 Personera won the FNB Enablis Business Launchpad competition (the biggest small business competition in Africa), acquired venture investment and had its launch featured on TechCrunch, quickly aiming it at the US market. He is the Curator of the Cape Town Startup Digest, a local branch of the weekly events list for entrepreneurs that has become a phenomenon in Silicon Valley.
Malan Joubert:
Malan is the CTO and Founder of FireID, a software security token company
Mark Levitt:
Mark is the CEO and Founder of ChessCube, a chess media network, leveraging its web-based chess playing and social network application.
Devin de Vries:
Devin is the Founder and CEO of WhereIsMyTransport. His role includes securing funding, strategy development and development
Links:
Cognician: http://www.cognician.net/
Personera: http://www.personera.com/
FireID: http://fireid.com/
Chesscube: http://www.chesscube.com/
WhereIsMyTransport: http://www.whereismytransport.co.za
Cape Town Daily Photo: http://www.capetowndailyphoto.com/
Jarred Cinman: http://jarredcinman.com
Saul Kropman: http:/saulk.co.za
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