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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…
Day 5We 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…
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…
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!