Geeks shall inherit the Earth

Because Bandwidth is expensive, and massive sites like twitter and facebook aren't THAT easy to start.
 
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well, guess our adittion to "social ip based media" is mxit, which in it self is a "killer app" if you look at how efficiently its being distributed without showing any halts in its growth...
 
The Greeks shall inherit the earth... and all the corner shops :p
 
rpm said:
Why doesn’t South Africa have more Internet entrepreneurs?
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Because I don't have the money upfront that it will take to pay for the bandwidth in order for me to make an online presence.

Greedy telecomms companies in South Africa are throttling the industry. The government knows this, and often barks about it. But until the get rid of that prize collection of Orang-utans known as ICASA not much is going to be done about it.
 
Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth. Not very hard.

And, no offence, but I can't see why yola (a) attracts so much attention and (b) attracts so much money.
 
Thwate (or what was Shuttleworths original security certification company?), Ubuntu and Mxit are originally in some way South African:P I think.
 
All this babble of bandwidth. I have uncapped local hosting for R120pm. Although I only have 200mb web space.
 
Money Money Money, many people believe that all you need is a good idea and you will make it on the internet, this is not true. Somewhere somehow every bright idea facebook, twitter etc had some kind of cash injection into it. We don't see this in SA, there are companies that will match your investment rand for rand but most of those companies favor previously disadvantaged groups. Not to sound racist but this will need to change.
 
it's not due to a lack of bandwidth (although more would be good) nor a lack of money (there's plenty, although it can be hard to tap into 'the network').

Given the relative small pool of educated people who were lucky enough to get the right exposure i'd say SA actually has achieved quite a bit in the online industry.

all it does take is a good idea AND will power. an no, a good idea is not as obvious as you think. Creating a south african copy of something that has been done overseas is not something that excites investors and all too often that's what local 'entrepreneurs' are trying to be.

be original, do your homework, solve a real life problem, fulfill a need...
 
w1z4rd said:
Thwate (or what was Shuttleworths original security certification company?), Ubuntu and Mxit are originally in some way South African:P I think.
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One can hardly call Ubuntu South African. Shuttleworth is an expat. and that is about as close as you get. I would argue that Ubuntu is not limited to any one country it is a global entity, and Canonical is still pretty much a virtual organisation, with the exception of that head-office in the UK.
 
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