Official US Green Card lottery opens Oct 4, 2011
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Green card lottery is open!
I know many South Africans in the US that won their green cards (or permanent residence cards) by entering the US Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery Program or the Green Card Lottery.The official place to find information regarding the lottery is at the US. Dept of State website. Do yourself a favor and don’t use ANY other website! There are literary hundreds of sites that offer to do this for you for a fee, sometimes a substantial fee.The lottery opened Oct 4, 2011, 12pm EDT and ends November 5, 2011, 12pm EST.
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Beyond438 exists to translate the passion we have for solving business problems into profits for our clients. We do this in a thoughtful, “been-there-done-that,” and “as-if-it-is-my-company” kind of way with our company principles guiding all our interactions.
We have a passion for business – for solving difficult business problems.
We have a passion for building world class companies – to grow beyond their current potential.
We have a passion for business leaders – to help them do the right thing in the jungle called the business world.
Our ultimate goal is to Wow! our clients and to take them to places where they’ve not been before. Places, such as, new revenue streams, South Africa and America.
Read MoreOfficial US Green Card lottery opens Oct 5, 2010
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Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa’s portfolio of companies
Hasso Plattner’s African Venture fund was launched in early 2008. In February 2009 I attended the fund’s Emerging Market Africa conference in South Africa. HPVA has invested ZAR80mm of ZAR350mm in 5 companies to date and expect to invest in at least 5 more. HPVA doesn’t disclose investments and shareholding, although they did indicate that they only take minority shareholding.You can find Hasso Plattner Venture Europe’s investments here.Recently the African fund disclosed some of the investments it has made so far:
- Cibecs: Enterprise backup solutions. According to some articles, HPVA invested ZAR8mm for a 25% stake in the company (HPVA indicated that these numbers aren’t correct. They didn’t say what the correct numbers are.) Cibecs was formed in 2004 by Richard Dewing, and its software has been sold to more than 30,000 users in South Africa.
- Inala operates in the fields of telecommunications and broadcasting in South Africa.
- Global Vision specializes in marketing automation software.
- KnowledgeTree is an open source document management system. KnowledgeTree uses a number of social media technologies to promote its products, including Facebook, Twitter, and blogs…very progressive!
- Dabba Telecom: Low-cost telecoms in South Africa. Dabba’s CEO Real Lissoos was voted Social Entrepreneur of the year in 2008.
What a historic day and free Starbucks!
It doesn’t matter if you agree with Obama‘s policies or not, today is a historic day in world history. The next four years will be very interesting — both from an economic and a world political perspective.
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