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2025 Guide: A Framework for Navigating and Applying Disruptive Innovation in Africa: Spotting Venture Opportunities
Africa Disruptive Innovation Guide – 2025 2025 Guide: A Framework for Navigating and Applying Disruptive Innovation in Africa: Spotting Venture Opportunities Download the PDF here. Last Update: 30 September 2025 Published: 30 September 2025 Authorship Authored by: Tiisetso Maloma and Startup Picnic Venture Studio
Read MoreStartup Picnic Evolves Into Africa-Focused Venture Studio to Build Scalable Intellectual Property and Publishing Ecosystem
Johannesburg, South Africa – [1 September 2025] – Startup Picnic, a platform that began in 2014 as an informal networking event for entrepreneurs and investors, has officially evolved into Startup Picnic Venture Studio (SPVS), a South African–based, Africa-focused venture studio dedicated to building scalable businesses rooted in publishing, intellectual property (IP), and technology. What started…
Read MoreIntroducing ‘Startup Picnic Academy’ – Rapid Short Courses for Earning A Living and Innovating
Greetings I hope you are well. I wish you a prosperous 2023. Announcing our rapid skills development school: Startup Picnic Academy (www.startuppicnicacademy.co.za).
Read MoreCome network with entrepreneurs at STARTUP PICNIC JHB this Saturday 25 September 2021
Join us this Saturday – 25 September 2021 – for another leg of Startup Picnic. This time we are in Midrand, Gauteng.
Read MorePress Release: Startup Picnic in Jane Furse on 26 October 2019 – The Ultimate Fun Event for Entrepreneurs Comes to Ga Sekhukhene
STARTUP PICNIC hits Ga Sekhukhune in Limpopo on the 26th of October 2019, at Zai Oat Hotel in Jane Furse. Sekhukhune is buzzing with entrepreneurial activity. Startup Picnic is excited to attract a business savvy crowd to #startuppicnicSekhukhune. Mix and have fun with a rich crowd of people: Come network, relax, shop at the stalls,…
Read MoreSTARTUP PICNIC SOWETO – The Ultimate Fun Event for Entrepreneurs Hits Soweto, 14 April 2019
STARTUP PICNIC hits Soweto on the 14th of April 2019, at Kwa Lichaba Chesa Nyama on Vilakazi Street. Soweto is buzzing with entrepreneurial activity. Startup Picnic is excited to attract a business savvy crowd to #startuppicnicSoweto. Mix and have fun with a rich crowd of people: Come network, relax, shop at the stalls, unwind, have…
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- Startup Picnic Evolves Into Africa-Focused Venture Studio to Build Scalable Intellectual Property and Publishing Ecosystem
- Introducing ‘Startup Picnic Academy’ – Rapid Short Courses for Earning A Living and Innovating
- Come network with entrepreneurs at STARTUP PICNIC JHB this Saturday 25 September 2021
- Press Release: Startup Picnic in Jane Furse on 26 October 2019 – The Ultimate Fun Event for Entrepreneurs Comes to Ga Sekhukhene
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