Gigham were mentioned in an article on Business Day last week.
Tech start-ups show their stuff
You can read the full article here.
Gigham.com is designed to overcome that age-old problem of what to do for entertainment.
Built by Hilton Roth, known as Roach, who has been in the music industry for 20 years and owns the African Dope record label; and George Gally, formerly of Loerie-winning agency Radarboy and creative director of Ogilvy Japan.
"We both saw the inefficiencies around how events are promoted and discovered," said Roth. "There is a big hole in the industry. We decided to built something which brings events closer to promoters and promoters closer to events. That was the hole."
The way to do this was automation. Gigham aggregates events from Facebook, and lets promoters use "one-click to add their event".
"There is a lot of information, so you can drill down to what you want. We decided to built it using the city-by-city and region-by-region model and we think that's the real power of it. It makes it easier to scale as we add a city.
Said Hare: "This is a good one and can be dropped anywhere in the world"."