Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
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Re: Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
#2This is awesome!!!! Calling SA just Africa is not cool in the title, the economies of African countries vary as much as they do in the Americas (almost).
This is wonderful news though!!!
Re: Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
#3I'd certainly be more happy to see investors pouring $40M into some local African project than into Color. (Though it won't happen, as they offer $20—50K.)
Re: Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
#4As a South African, this is really awesome news!
There is however a far bigger problem than just funding here, I have never even heard of the Twangoo (Acquired by Groupon) mentioned in the article. I suppose its down to the almost total lack of any sort of hacker/startup community, and I don't know how that is going to be fixed.
Re: Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
#5As a South African, this is really awesome news! There is however a far bigger problem than just funding here, I have never even heard of the Twangoo (Acquired by Groupon) mentioned in the article. I suppose its down to the almost total lack of any sort of hacker/startup community, and I don't know how that is going to be fixed.
I'm surprised you missed Twangoo. Facebook, Megavideo and my friends all blasted it at me. It's a popular site in SA.
Re: Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
#6Missed a word in the title: South Africa.
That changes things a lot. If it were in Kenya or Nigeria, this would be a bold move. South Africa, on the other hand, is not really all that much different to a middle of the road Western country.
As a result, this news is more on par with opening an incubator in New Zealand or Italy. Certainly cool to hear, but not really "Startups in the Congo" cool.
Re: Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
#7As a South African, this is really awesome news! There is however a far bigger problem than just funding here, I have never even heard of the Twangoo (Acquired by Groupon) mentioned in the article. I suppose its down to the almost total lack of any sort of hacker/startup community, and I don't know how that is going to be fixed.
I'm surprised you missed Twangoo. Facebook, Megavideo and my friends all blasted it at me. It's a popular site in SA.
I doubt Twangoo will be around in SA for more than 2 years.Group buying will never catch in SA until there is one online payment system that EVERYBODY uses as well confidence in eCommerce.
PS I read an article on mybroadband about false pricing by businesses on Twangoo.I feel that things like this will hinder the growth of the group buying model in SA.
Re: Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
#8I'd certainly be more happy to see investors pouring $40M into some local African project than into Color. (Though it won't happen, as they offer $20—50K.)
I doubt you need that much($40 mill) funding in SA. Look at Mxit for example do you think they need that much?
What SA needs is younger people getting in on The Techscene instead of finding safe jobs at the Banks,Lawfirms and accountancy Firms.
Re: Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
#9Missed a word in the title: South Africa. That changes things a lot. If it were in Kenya or Nigeria, this would be a bold move. South Africa, on the other hand, is not really all that much different to a middle of the road Western country. As a result, this news is more on par with opening an incubator in New Zealand or Italy. Certainly cool to hear, but not really "Startups in the Congo" cool.
I would put it more on par with Brasil, there is still a large amount of poverty in SA.
Re: Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
#10As a South African, this is really awesome news! There is however a far bigger problem than just funding here, I have never even heard of the Twangoo (Acquired by Groupon) mentioned in the article. I suppose its down to the almost total lack of any sort of hacker/startup community, and I don't know how that is going to be fixed.
I'm surprised you missed Twangoo. Facebook, Megavideo and my friends all blasted it at me. It's a popular site in SA.
I don't spend any time on Facebook, so I thought that may be a reason why as well, but I asked my wife (Who most certainly DOES use Facebook), and she had also never heard of it.