Young, Foolish & Passionate

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Radio 2000 hosted us today to talk about social entrepreneurship and volunteering. Thanks for having us! (at Radio 2000 SABC radio park)

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The biggest problem you have as a company is thinking you have it solved. You need a hungry open mind, which is probably the most important thing. A mindset of constantly challenging, of constantly seeking disruption

FinancialMail

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Chamonix, France. Barcelona, Spain. August 2015

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Looking forward to welcoming 100 @globalshaperscommunity members to #capetown for The World Economic Forum on Africa in June. "With the world’s largest youth demographic, Africa’s working-age population is expected to double to 1 billion in the next 25 years, surpassing both China and India. The year 2015 is also significant for Africa, as it marks the end of global, regional and local efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals aimed at eradicating poverty. Double-digit growth is now needed for sustainable development, and the onus is on leaders to address systemic structural changes that can boost investment, enhance competitiveness, strengthen risk resilience and harness opportunities arising from technology adoption in all sectors." (at V & A Waterfront)

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About 60% of online traffic now comes from mobile and Google wants users to have a good experience whenever they click on a mobile link.

BUSINESS INSIDER

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There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.

Stephen Hawking (via twloha)

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Unlocking big data

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Now companies are in the middle of a renovation that forces them to be analytics-driven to continue being competitive. Data analysis provides a complete insigh…

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Introduction to Associative Information Systems - (N) Normal Form

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The Future is here whether you like it or not !!!The facts are clear , Data is increasing at nearly 50 - 80% year of year and accelerating depending on industry.. Storage Capacity is double every 18 months and dropping by 50% a year.. Simple math dictates this is a losing proposition. One last study stated more data has been created in the last two years than in all of human history.Industry has grown so dependent on hardware engineers to simply make bigger and bigger ( smaller) boxes to put stuff in..without any pressure exerted on the software industry to bring efficiency to bare. Regardles

"More data has been created in the last two years than in all of human history"

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TDWI: How Real Time Analytics is used in your company?

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The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent

Einstein 

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In the New Yorker, James Surowiecki looks to Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee’s forthcoming book The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies for a discussion of one of the major problems with using GDP as a means of assessing the economic...

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"Economic orthodoxy holds that automation will offset lowered wages and employment by creating new classes of jobs"

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...for governments trying to grow jobs and encourage entrepreneurs, [understanding data on high growth companies and tech bubbles is] a way to focus on quality over quantity.

Max Nisen, Quartz

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Timing matters, a lot.

"In a dataset from Massachusetts, 77% of growth outcomes (an IPO or acquisition within 6 years of being founded) came from companies in the top 5% of the quality measure the authors created, based on everything from how a company is named to how quickly it files for patents. Nearly 50% of successful outcomes were in the top 1%."

The earlier entrepreneurs got more time in a growth market, and were more likely to be successful.

Graph: "There was a huge spike in the number of firms that exited successfully around 1995—they got the full benefit of the boom, and suffered fewer of the consequences of the tech-bubble bust"

Read the whole article

~ Quartz

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1 in 8 young people are unemployed. ~ UNDP. In South Africa youth unemployment is at 36%, 'youth' in SA are age between 16 - 34. 

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Jony Ive, Apple. Here's the poster on his wall. By Brian Buirge and Jason Bacher. Believe in your #fbomb'ing self. Stay up all #fbomb'ing night. 

[lifelovelenses]

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Sona 2015 - if you have not got all the details, read this

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Space and Earth. More pictures: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/16/vintage-nasa-photographs_n_6673854.html?ir=Science&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000042