South Africans are resourceful, passionate and innovative. We like to create something from nothing, success from adversity and potential from disaster.
This is one of the reasons that I love being here and love South Africa. We are just different.
Finally it seems as though the world is beginning to take notice of this in the online/internet/innovation spheres.
SA Rocks blogged about Springleap in February of this year, we are ahead of the game! And now Springleap.com has been nominated for an Innovation 100 Award. Here’s a snippet from the Springleap Facebook event about the voting:
Some fantastic news!!!
Springleap.com (our proudly South African Initiative to promote SA Artists and rejuvenate the SA Garment Trade) has been nominated for the Innovation 100 Awards.
There are 100 companies that have been nominated in 10 categories… and springleap has been nominated as one of the top 10 innovative companies in the world’s retail category – this means we are right up there going against Amazon and the Apple App Store – and this is your chance to help put South Africa on the map by voting for springleap.com and telling your friends to go there and vote.
Please click on this link to go there and vote for Proudly SA:
http://www.thestandard.com/awards/tis100/show_category/5742
It’s a great time to show our South African unity and pride at something that puts SA on the map right up there with the big boys. A precious moment to show that we are springleaping together.
Facebook your friends, e-mail your pals and support South Africa at the Innovations 100 awards.
So what do you need to do?
It’s simple. Visit the Industry Standard website and VOTE FOR SPRINGLEAP.
And on a parting note it must be noted that Vinny Lingham’s wonder-product, Synthasite is also up for an award so that makes two South Africans cracking the nod of approval this year.
Head over to the Innovations website and VOTE FOR SYNTHASITE too.
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August 13th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
we’re still popping the champers here at springleapHQ
now if only we can find more developers to join our team, to help us build springleap into the world class system we have envisioned…
there must be tons of awesome developers around Cape Town (or wanting to move to Cape Town) looking for a interesting project to work on – we just need to find them
October 16th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Hey guys – Eran here from springleap.com
Great news : springleap was moved to the Top 10 most innovative companies in the world for the retail category!!! Way to go SA!
The voting has now closed and on the 20th the winners will be announced – exciting times indeed!
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