Startups

Natal incubation

Durban isn`t the first South African city to create an incubation centre for start-up ICT companies, but its SmartXchange claims to go a step beyond better-known centres.

01 May 2006

Like many fledgling entrepreneurs, rented space and office overheads were squeezing Thoko Moyana`s bottom line so hard she was forced to take her business home for a while to cut costs.

“Things were tough; the rental was chowing all the money away,” says Moyana, CEO of Get Ahead Technologies, a black women-owned SME specialising in computer hardware and software, PC upgrades and repairs, and network cabling.

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