Henk Kleynhans from Skyrove presented on the Cape Silicon Initiative

1. Silicon Cape
Attracting Nerds & Rich People

2. What is Silicon Cape?

3. realisation

4. epiphany

5. Why move to Silicon Valley...

6. if we can do it all in Silicon Cape?

7. but can we?

8. potential & opportunity

9. but

10. a high-tech innovation
hub that fosters:
entrepreneurs
startups
talent
venture investors
is lacking

11. how do we change this?

12. ecosystem

13. awareness
of the
opportunity

14. Why the (silicon) Cape?

15. simple,
identifiable,
self-explanatory,
& marketable brand

16. text

17. already has some of the
right ingredients

18. text

19. “What it takes is the right people. If you could
get the right ten thousand people to move
from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would
become Silicon Valley…. Now you could
make a great city anywhere, if you could get
the right people to move there. So the
question of how to make a Silicon Valley
becomes: Who are the right people, and how
do you get them to move?“

20. Paul Graham
“How To Be A Silicon Valley”
paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html
“You only need two kinds of people
to create a technology hub: “

21. “rich people & nerds”

22. (the future of this presentation)

23. So how do we move them here?

24. Great Universities

25. Great place to live!

26. Great Place to Live 2

27. Personality & Culture

28. Intact City Centres
(San Francisco, Boston, Seattle
vs
Pittsburgh)

29. Startups beget Startups

30. We just need to sow the seeds!

31. Silicon Cape is here...

32. Yola Springleap EDH
FireID Integr8 Fundamo
Afrigator Blueworld OrderTalk
Radiate Thawte Microgaming
Clicks2Customers Yeigo Fontera
Quirk Skyrove StrictlyTickets.com
Clickatell Eyeballs TinyImpact
MXit Psitek BetTech
i5 Omnipless GetClosure
ChessCube Woothemes Zoopy
Personera WebAfrica Cibecs
KnowledgeTree Global Vision Inala

33. HP Ventures
IDC / SPII
Innovation Fund
InVenFin
Bioventures
HBD
Horizon Equity
Intel Capital
Triumph VC
4Di Capital

34. build global companies

35. great talent pool
(but also brain drain)

36. core opportunity

37. limited natural resources

38. tourism is not enough

39. net exporter of IP
starting right now

40. “invisible income”
=
great wealth

41. we need a
tax-friendly environment

42. protection and free mobility
of capital internationally

43. access to a community & ecosystem

44. a regulatory environment that
PROMOTES
rather than
INHIBITS
development of IP
(FAIS, SARB, Income Tax, Exchange Control)

45. Michael Dell
$12.3 BILLION
Varsity Dropout (19)

46. if we don’t create the right environment
to become a
net exporter of IP
we’ll remain a
net exporter of talent

47. So what is SCI?

48. a non-profit,
community owned & driven
initiative
aimed at fostering the creation
of an ecosystem
that will
better South Africa
for the benefit of all

49. a local & international
branding campaign for
the region & SA
as a high-tech innovation
& investment destination

50. an awareness campaign to
highlight & expose
startup & investment activity

51. a platform for highlighting
the issues
facing startups & venture investors
and engaging with
government & regulators
to lobby for legal changes

52. an attempt
to accelerate investing activity
&
raising awareness of the opportunity in
the Cape
for entrepreneurs & venture investors,
particularly overseas, attracting FDI &
retaining & attracting skills
(local, ex-pat & foreign)

53. The SCI is NOT:
an incubator
a hub
a VC fund
an association
a mentoring program
a government initiative

54. it IS possible to create
the Silicon Cape

55. there are challenges

56. South Africans have a
strong work ethic,
innovative minds &
a formidable “can do” attitude

57. This could be the future of our country’s
export revenues one day

58. “There is nothing more powerful
than an idea whose time has come”
- Victor Hugo

59. text

60. Henk Kleynhans
CTO & Founder
Skyrove (Pty) Ltd
henk@skyrove.com
www.geekrebel.com
http://twitter.com/geekrebel