The Woo themes story - by Adriaan Pienaar

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WooThemes is a popular WordPress theme and plugin company. The author shares three main lessons learned from building WooThemes into a successful business: focus on a niche, provide excellent support, and constantly improve products based on customer feedback. Prioritizing these areas helped WooThemes grow profitably while keeping customers happy.

Lessons Learned From WooThemes
By Adii Pienaar

The Woo themes story - by Adriaan Pienaar

This document discusses the benefits of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) systems. UC&C combines communication channels like voice, email, instant messaging, and video conferencing to improve collaboration. The document outlines how UC&C can reduce "communication latency" by making it easier for employees to connect with the right people at the right time. It provides examples of companies that have implemented UC&C through HP and Microsoft solutions and realized cost savings through reduced conferencing costs, simplified management, and other benefits.

The Sophisticat, the Elephant, and the Secret of the Digital Native - by Arth...RAMP Group

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The document summarizes key findings from research into digital usage among youth in South Africa. It identifies two main segments - "Sophisticats" and "Elephants" - who account for a large share of mobile spending. While private school youth showed high levels of digital skills, township youth generally had lower skills levels due to lack of support structures. The research also revealed that digital adoption is driven more by peer influence than by age, challenging the idea that today's youth are "digital natives".

Cloud security Deep Dive 2011Kim Jensen

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This document provides an overview of cloud computing security challenges. It discusses how cloud computing introduces new risks by making systems accessible over the internet, shared among multiple tenants, and lacking location specificity. The document outlines common cloud computing models including infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service. It also discusses how multitenancy increases the risk of unauthorized access to user data in cloud environments. Overall, the document examines how cloud computing demands new security practices due to its unique architecture and deployment models.

Websense Cortex WhitepaperKim Jensen

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The document provides an overview of Websense's Content Research Cortex, which classifies content to block malicious or unwanted data and protect confidential data. It describes how Websense uses over 100 researchers worldwide and technologies like the ThreatSeeker Network to discover, identify, classify, and adapt to content trends on a global scale. Key aspects include discovery of new content through a network of over 50 million systems, identification of content types and protocols, classification using fingerprints and reputation analysis, and continuous adaptation through realigning classification and discovery techniques.

Unified communicationKim Jensen

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Buyers Guide To Messaging Security Dec 2009Kim Jensen

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This document discusses options for messaging security and considerations for choosing an on-premise or cloud-based solution. It covers: - Types of messaging security like perimeter security and message security - Delivery options of on-premise vs software as a service (SaaS) solutions - Factors to consider like control, compliance, costs, and features when deciding between on-premise and cloud-based messaging security

Uma panorâmica de VenezaLuiz Carlos Dias

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Dave Duarte - Intergrate web & mobile into your marketing mix - Net Prophet 2009RAMP Group

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The document discusses integrating web and mobile into marketing strategies. It notes that mobile phones outnumber other technologies in South Africa and that SA ranks highly for mobile web access globally. It then covers some key aspects of digital marketing campaigns, including reach, direct ROI, measurability, stickiness, and immediacy. The document contrasts the industrial economy model of large upfront investments in mass media campaigns with the attention economy approach of focusing on relevance. It emphasizes that annoying and intrusive marketing does not work and that the best digital marketing is useful, relevant and timely.

Richard Mulholland - Avatar Activism RAMP Group

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Rich Mulholland and the Power of the 3 Minute Message RAMP Group

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Entrepreneurship - South Africa Style! RAMP Group

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South Africa has a large population of potential entrepreneurs with 12 million people who have never had access to economic opportunity looking to start businesses. A new program called Awethu has just one requirement for applicants - that they have never previously had access to economic opportunities. The program aims to support 1,000 new entrepreneurs with small grants of R0.00 to help launch new businesses and provide access to economic participation.

3 Minute Power Presentation by Eric Edelstein RAMP Group

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The document describes how the founder of Corporate Look and Evly, Eric Edelstein, pivoted his business 6 weeks ago by throwing out everything they had created to date and starting over. Their new product, developed through the pivot, is flexible i-frames that can be used to build Facebook apps, widgets, and mobile apps. The pivot has been successful so far, with their first paid customer coming 12 weeks later and now having customers 6 months later. The document encourages ignoring the South African mentality of disrespecting failure and instead embracing pivoting like in Silicon Valley when the market changes.

3 Minute Power Presentation by Don Packett RAMP Group

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3 Minute Power Presentation by Elodie KleynhausRAMP Group

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3 Minute Power Presentation by Wesley LynchRAMP Group

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3 Minute Power Presentation by Rory Berry RAMP Group

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3 Minute Power Presentation by Walter Pike RAMP Group

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One Year in Cape Town: Still in Love? By Permjot Valia RAMP Group

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The document discusses Permjot Valia's experiences in Cape Town over the past year. It mentions that the biggest change has been dealing with a mid-life crisis by buying a Mac, using Keynotes, and buying an iPad. Over the past year, Valia has made four more visits to Cape Town, worked with 30 companies, invested in one and is about to invest in another. Valia still loves Cape Town but believes they need to think more globally, have more competition amongst capital providers, and increase diversity in their entrepreneurial landscape. Valia provides positive advice encouraging Cape Town to have more confidence, think globally, and let players in their ecosystem help.

7 Start-up Sins by Sylvia Grubler RAMP Group

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The document outlines seven common start-up sins: 1) Saving on the wrong things and not paying enough for core business needs, 2) Changing too much at once without proper preparation, 3) Hiding things which wastes time and opportunities, 4) Panicking which helps no one, 5) Undervaluing the importance of building a strong brand, 6) Not listening to and conversing with customers, and 7) Getting sidetracked from the core business by watching competitors. It encourages start-ups to focus on customers, innovate through trial and error, and have fun.

604k Ought to be enough for anyone - by Dan BowyerRAMP Group

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This document discusses trends in technology and society from the 1980s to the present and into the future. It notes that computing power and internet access will continue to become cheaper, more reliable, and faster. Society is becoming hyperconnected through technology, which increases awareness and transparency. New businesses can create change efficiently from the ground up. However, it questions assumptions that the global economy can support infinite growth and that money, government, and debt are inherently problematic. It suggests Africa focus on renewable energy, local manufacturing, education exports, and technology to take advantage of opportunities and avoid mistakes made elsewhere. The key message is that the present represents a time of opportunity for Africa.

Rewarding the Right Behaviour in a Mobile World - by Chris Rolfe RAMP Group

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This document discusses rewarding behaviors through mobile rewards programs. It outlines how mobile enables more targeted rewarding due to the connectivity of POS, data analytics capabilities, and the ubiquity of mobile phones. Mobile rewards can be used to influence consumer behaviors across industries like consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and non-profits. Different types of rewards are described including financial, product, utility, recognition and other rewards. Measurement metrics like ROI, CAC, and average CAC are also covered.

The Power of Asymmetric Connections by Robyn ScottRAMP Group

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Internet Radio in South Africa. Why it shouldn't work. By Richard Hardiman RAMP Group

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Internet radio in South Africa has been successful with over 44,500 total listeners in the past week and a high return rate of listeners at 88.12%. The top presenters are Ian F, Bailey Schnieder, and Bob Skinstad. Most listeners access the radio station from desktop computers running Windows, though mobile access from iPads, iPhones, and Android devices is growing. The top cities for listeners are Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban. The document discusses the trends and future of internet radio in South Africa.

Net Prophet 2011 - Online conversationsRAMP Group

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BrandsEye monitored online conversations about Net Prophet, a South African event featuring innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs, to assess its success and brand longevity. Over 3 months there were 6,093 mentions, with 3,530 tweets on the event day alone, reaching over 6.99 million people. Speaker Richard Mulholland generated the most conversation, while Diana Blake's content received the most engagement. The conversation was overwhelmingly positive and came predominantly from consumers, establishing a lasting positive impact for future Net Prophet events.

Joule, a spearhead for the south African Electric Vehicle and Battery industr...RAMP Group

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This document provides an overview of Optimal Energy, a South African company developing an electric vehicle called the Joule. It discusses the challenges of climate change and energy security driving a need for electric vehicles. Optimal Energy aims to establish itself as a leader in the South African and global electric vehicle industries. The company was founded in 2005 and has over 100 employees. Its vehicle, the Joule, was designed by a renowned automotive stylist and will be a compact, safe, spacious city car with a range of 240km. Optimal Energy plans to produce 50,000 vehicles annually by 2023 for both domestic and export markets.

Business Mobility in East Africa - by John WaibochiRAMP Group

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East Africa has seen rapid growth in mobile technology adoption, with over 120 million people, 22 million mobile subscribers, and more than 14 million mobile money users. This widespread mobile access provides an opportunity to close the loop on cashless payments and enable ubiquitous transactions through mobile applications and platforms. Mobile money has already transformed payments in the region by allowing over 13 million users to transfer money through more than 20,000 agent outlets, despite there being under 1,000 bank branches. Entrepreneurs can create revenue by providing applications and services to facilitate retail payments, commerce, banking, utilities and more, through transaction fees, advertising, subscriptions, and other models.

The Silicon Valley Myth - by Richard MulhollandRAMP Group

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Eagles don't need parachutes - by Rapelang RabanaRAMP Group

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- The document discusses the early days of starting a telecommunications company called Yeigo, including taking the leap to start in 2005 and building a prototype while seeking funding. - Key lessons learned include that you can't outsource your competitive advantage, innovation is iterative, and producing a demo shows commitment. Secrecy also cannot protect your idea if it can be easily copied. - The South African telecommunications market faced problems of underinvestment in infrastructure from VoIP operators and difficulty collecting revenue via mobile channels. Wholesale interconnect rates set by law were also higher than retail rates charged in practice.