Durban
2 February 2010 | View Comments
Izimvo has the honour of introducing the founder of MyShuttles.com: Lungile Zondi. MyShuttles.com is a recently launched Internet Startup looking to change the way people travel. Their slogan, “Travel Safer, Greener and Cheaper” is the perfect description for their unique offering. The site, which has been in development for two years, launched in January and has already garnered the [...]
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Johannesburg
19 January 2010 | View Comments
Izimvo has the great pleasure of introducing co-founder and MD of Teraco, Lex van Wyk. Teraco, the first provider of vendor neutral data centres in South Africa, recently made headlines for going live with the first phase of its R60m data centre in Johannesburg. The 1000 sq m facility is billed as a “central node” [...]
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Cape Town
15 January 2010 | View Comments
Izimvo is truly honoured to introduce the founder and CEO of MXit, Herman Heunis. MXit, a true South African success story, was the first mobile instant messenger of its kind in the country. Today, it is used by over 15 million users in 120+ countries and transmits upward of 250 million messages per day. Since [...]
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Cape Town
14 January 2010 | View Comments
Izimvo is honoured to introduce the husband and wife team behind NoMU, Paul and Tracy Raphaely. NoMU, first started by Tracy in December 2000, produce a range of food products from their factory in Cape Town. Currently available in 38 countries, NoMU has grown to become a brand known for its quality and high impact, [...]
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Johannesburg
10 December 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo is honoured to introduce Managing Director of Aqua Online, Brent Shahim As one of South Africa’s biggest new media agencies and with clients such as Avis, Southern Sun, Nokia, Standard Bank, Pick n Pay and MTN, Aqua Online are at the forefront of a digital South African. Brent is a qualified Chartered Accountant having [...]
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Cape Town
7 December 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo has the pleasure of introducing Springleap.com co-founder Eran Eyal. Springleap is a website where every two weeks designers get to enter a t-shirt design competition to win R7482.18 (about US$900) – half in cash and half t-shirts – plus massive exposure online and offline. They also get royalties on reprints. Winners are selected by [...]
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Johannesburg
3 December 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo has the great pleasure of introducing the founder and C.E.O. of Ornico, Oresti Patricios. Ornico, founded by Oresti and his brother Spero in 1984, are the leaders in providing clients with a fast, accurate and comprehensive advertising tracking service for TV, Radio, Print and Billboard. They also provide editorial tracking services to some of [...]
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Cape Town
30 November 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo has the great honour of introducing the courageous Tertia Albertyn. Tertia’s blog (www.tertia.org) is about her struggle to have children was judged the top blog in the country in 2007 and again in 2008. Her book ‘So Close’, based on her blog and detailing her five-year battle with infertility was released in South Africa in August [...]
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Durban
27 November 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo would like to introduce the Chairman of Private Property, Justin Clarke. Recent runner-up in the Jump 2009 E-Commerce awards for the best property website, Private Property was started in 1999 and operated out of Justin’s converted garage for a number of years. Today, the site ranks as one of South Africa’s most popular and the first [...]
Tagged in Entrepreneur, Property, Web
Cape Town
16 November 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo is honoured to introduce entrepreneur and investor, Justin Stanford. Justin, 26, is an international entrepreneur and investor from Cape Town. He is founder, CEO, director, advisor, or investor to numerous companies, mostly in the technology startup space. Website: http://www.justinstanford.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/JustinStanford LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/justins Location: Cape Town Justin was kind enough to answer the following questions for [...]
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