Sterio.Me engages young rural African learners through a simple, teacher-generated phone-call to reinforce learning outside the classroom.
In rural Africa, teachers face substantial difficulties engaging learners…

The StartupBus Team in The StartupBus Blog

Nov 25, 2013

StartupBus Africa start-ups: funeral.ly

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funeral.ly, one of the StartupBus Africa runner-ups, is a funeral…

The StartupBus Team in The StartupBus Blog

Nov 25, 2013

StartupBus Africa start-ups: Workforce

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Workforce, StartupBus Africa 2013 winner, is mobile-powered workforce planning on construction sites. Workforce is providing employers with Android-based mobile planning software, in order to successfully hire labor through a trusted and…

The StartupBus Team in The StartupBus Blog

Nov 25, 2013

8 pitches from StartupBus Africa, ‘Workforce’ announced as winner

The StartupBus Team in The StartupBus Blog

Nov 25, 2013

Buspreneur interview with Samuel Osam Kyemenu-Sarsah

The StartupBus Team in The StartupBus Blog

Nov 24, 2013

StartupBus Africa so far…

Day 6

After a relatively short rest period at Riverlodge Backpackers, we made our way to Bandwith Barn — the oldest start-up incubator in Africa. Here we had breakfast as well as some much needed unlimited access to both Wifi and power.
We followed out visit…

The StartupBus Team in The StartupBus Blog

Nov 24, 2013

StartupBus Africa so far…

Day 5
We woke to the sweet surrounds of our accommodation at Evergreen in Bloemfontein and started the morning by visiting the Central University of Technology of Bloemfontein (CUT). At CUT we were privy to a presentation about entrepreneurship as well as the university’s in-house…

The StartupBus Team in The StartupBus Blog

Nov 21, 2013

StartupBus Africa so far…

Day 4

The buspreneurs spent the day in Braamfontein — one of Johannesburg’s innovation hubs. They were hosted by The Hook Up Dinner at the Branson Centre… Once again, the madness was abound with pitches and interviews and collaboration and such. As I sat at…

The StartupBus Team in The StartupBus Blog

Nov 20, 2013

StartupBus Africa so far…

Day 3

After an over night stay in the Soutpansberg region; everyone was back on the bus and the coding, developing, hacking, post-it noting, window diagram drawing, pitching, brainstorming, and, and had resumed!