Comments on: South Africa’s web startups to watch

By: Rcstoltz

Rcstoltz — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:07:00 +0000

Hi Guys,

What about Virtusa.co.za – a Digg style South African social community where users can share and discover the latest and greatest of the web (especially the South African web-o-sphere). I know there have been a few failed startups similar to this but what makes Virtusa.co.za different? Because it is the ONLY such startup/site in South Africa to work on a revenue share model for SA based Adsense publishers. Simply post your quality news articles and links and get 80% revenue share ! Now this might be a simple startup but it is one not only different, but also making a difference ! What do you think ?

By: Rcstoltz

Rcstoltz — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:55:00 +0000

Hi Charl,

When are you updating the list again bud ?

Thank You

By: søgemaskineoptimering

søgemaskineoptimering — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:19:00 +0000

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By: Gavinh

Gavinh — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:50:00 +0000

Watch http://www.blogsa.co.za its new, its still buggy but the ethos is right.

By: Sceptic

Sceptic — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:46:00 +0000

But do you care about blogging at all ? From what I can see on the site,not really. Its a complet mess, nothing interesting for the reader at all. If it wern’t for the wordpress back-end and the lack of competition. You’d have nothing to offer at all

By: Motobaki

Motobaki — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:05:56 +0000

Couldn’t agree with Charl more… having a South African based websites shows that we are truely getting there.

By: Roping in big bucks: SynthaSite Secures $20 Million in funding from Reinet

Roping in big bucks: SynthaSite Secures $20 Million in funding from Reinet — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:23:31 +0000

[...] pioneers of the Web 2.0 movement and on our list of SA startups to watch, they have just roped in a whooping $20 million as funding from Luxembourg-based Reinet Fund S.C.A. [...]

By: Kerry

Kerry — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:02:41 +0000

Blinkplan (www.blinkplan.com) is a new one by two South Africans. It caters for the media market (especially magazines) and does easy flatplans.

By: khathutshelo

khathutshelo — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:41:25 +0000

I recently came across http://www.75.co.za by 2lmn(2lmn.co.za)’s Lebogang Nkoane. Its a brilliant concept and the site’s execution is clean and fresh too..

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:11:33 +0000

I know this is an old post but I just wanted you to be aware of another great web startup… http://www.capetownalive.co.za. Otherwise the list is really useful, thanks.

Kind regards,
Sandra