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By sashgonzalez April 16, 2020April 20, 2020 Featured/Innovation/Startup

Combatting COVID-19 in Africa (by Anda Ngcaba)

President Cyril Ramaphosa called this “the most definitive Thuma Mina moment for South Africa”. So when my good friend, Anda, reached out to me for help, the obvious answer was yes. I am proud to be a part of this initiative, but we need your help too. Anda tells us

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By sashgonzalez April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 Featured/Innovation/Self-development/Startup/University

The Focused Millennial: Ntsako Mgiba

Ntsako Mgiba is the founder of exciting startup JONGA, a Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South African, a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, a Mechatronics Engineering graduate (UCT) and a current Masters in Information Technology student (UCT). When a good friend and I first considered starting a business of our own,

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By sashgonzalez April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 Featured/Innovation/Reflection

What Businesses Can Learn from Amapiano

If you started reading this post wondering “what on earth is amapiano?” and you aren’t South African, I’ll forgive you. But if you consider yourself South African and you’re still wondering what on earth it is, I really hope you’re enjoying your life listening to Steve Hofmeyr in Orania. Other

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By sashgonzalez November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 Career/Featured/Innovation/Inspiration/Reflection

A Trip to Silicon Valley

Last week, I had the privilege of traveling to San Francisco and the greater Bay Area for an internal Google conference titled “Converge”. I must say, I was really excited, as it had been a goal of mine for the past 2 years to visit Silicon Valley to see what

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By sashgonzalez May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 Featured/Innovation/Startup/University

The UCONNECT Event

This past Monday, Matthew Mercouris and I hosted our second UCONNECT event. This event, different to the last, had a specific focus on the power of collaboration. We invited a range of students who have signed up to our platform (from different faculties, backgrounds and varying skillsets) to take part in an

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By sashgonzalez April 26, 2019May 5, 2019 Featured/Innovation/Startup/University

The Story Behind UCONNECT

For those of you who have been following me on social media, you probably would’ve gauged by now that I’ve been working on a project for most of this year. In fact, myself and two close friends, Matt (medical student) and Zolile (PGDA student), decided to pursue this idea. The

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By sashgonzalez March 25, 2019May 3, 2019 Innovation/Startup

User-Centric Design

Two Mondays ago, Matthew Mercouris, Zolile Ngengebule and I hosted our first invite only event for the project we’ve been working on (called UCONNECT). The attendees, all young entrepreneurs, engaged with us in an open-ended discussion regarding the problems that they’re experiencing in the start-up ecosystem. The idea of this

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By sashgonzalez January 3, 2019May 3, 2019 Career/Innovation/Reflection/Startup

The Story Behind @thegreyandblue

Towards the tail end of my high school career, I really started considering how it was that I would be able to leave my own legacy. I believe that one of the most impactful things I did in my time at St Alban’s College was establishing @thegreyandblue.  It was 2012 and

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By sashgonzalez October 24, 2018May 3, 2019 Innovation/Startup

Coffee with Ntsako Mgiba

Matthew Mercouris and I had the privilege of sitting down and having a coffee with Ntsako Mgiba (UCT Masters student and Founder of Jonga) yesterday. While we believe that we are onto something really impactful, Ntsako provided us with sound advice regarding start-ups and a taste of what it would

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By sashgonzalez October 15, 2018May 3, 2019 Innovation/Startup/University

The Power of Collaboration and Synergy

One of my highlights this year has been a course called Strategic Thinking (all 4th year Business Science students at UCT are required to do it). We were randomly selected into groups of 6 to complete two major projects across both semesters. With a lot of luck, I was placed

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