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The Y.E.S movie
September 15, 2009 | Filed under Caribean Startups
I’m not even going to say a thing. Just watch the trailer.
46 social media sites for Caribbean entrepreneurs
September 15, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
We found this list on venturebeat.com and added our Caribbean information to it for our global Caribbean audience.They had 25 social media sites. We added 21 Caribbean Social Media sites to make it more useful for us. If you’re a entrepreneur who has been seduced by social media tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook, [...]
The Key to a Predictable, Profitable Business
August 31, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
This weekend I was enjoying some Margaritas with my friend Chris. He is one of the greatest entrepreneurs I know (and I know many, many entrepreneurs). You have never seen him in the news or on the front of a magazine, and that’s because he wants it that way.
Chris’s company throws off a 37.6% net [...]
8 Ways to Improve Your Web-Based Business
August 27, 2009 | Filed under Blog
Do you have a web-based business? Well, if you don’t, you should consider starting one. If you do, what you’ll notice is that there is always more room for improvement.
Over the past few years I have started a handful of web-based businesses and consulted a 100 or so. No matter what size company I was [...]
99 Free Online Classes on Business and Entrepreneurship
August 23, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
Are you looking to take business and entrepreneurship classes but are worried about the money and time availability? The courses below are all free and can be taken at your own leisure. They’re recommended to anyone starting an online business - I know I’ll be taking a few myself. Browse through courses from MIT and [...]
PUKSHOP.COM-World’s first integrated digital Caribbean music, video download and jukebox store ?
August 16, 2009 | Filed under Caribean Startups
SiliconCaribe.com first gave you a heads up of the coming of PUKSHOP.com from last August. It’s delay took a little longer than expected but on August 27th they will officially go live. PUKSHOP.com is “the newest software based online digital media store. PUKSHOP lets music fans search for and legally download thousands of songs either [...]
Slings and Successes of Trinidadian Parodice Games Developer: Raul Bermudez
July 9, 2009 | Filed under Caribean Startups
Some T-shirt, converse, ruffled hair, a high powered MacBook working in a garage somewhere in the United States or Europe. That’s the typical image of the creators of electronic games, Raul Bermudez is so not that. He’s in his 50s,is Trinidadian by birth, lives there with his wife and is a dad to 5 kids. [...]
SiliconCaribe TV:MusicPassNetwork.com - iTunes for Reggae Music, well sorta
June 17, 2009 | Filed under Caribean Startups
MusicPassNetwork.com is a site where you go to download the reggae singles you bought using the equivalent of a top up phone card. We first got the preview of this online music product at Kingston Beta on April 28th by its lead pitchman Lloyd Laing. MusicPass.com the reggae music card and MusicPassNetwork.com are products [...]
SiliconCaribe TV: Cliq - the mobile app from Jamaica’s Software Architects
June 2, 2009 | Filed under Caribean Startups
This SiliconCaribe TV video blog is an exclusive prelaunch demo. It’s about a Jamaican startup called Software Architects that has built a mobile phone app that works with even the most basic phone on the market and does things like this:
- allows you to top up on your prepaid minutes from you chosen mobile service [...]
SiliconCaribeTV: Pileojobs startup founder explains his Caribbean job search engine
May 28, 2009 | Filed under Caribean Startups
PileoJobs.com pitch is what you missed at the last Kingston Beta, you may have missed the post I wrote days after it launched calling this Caribbean job search engine, a simple solution to a real problem. They now have added a social type of site pileojobs.net. Listen to the startup entrepreneur and founder Bill Bailey [...]
SiliconCaribe TV: The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur in Jamaica
May 10, 2009 | Filed under Caribean Startups
Episode 1 - The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur in Jamaica
Check out our interview with Mike Michalowicz, multi-millionaire entrepreneur, best selling author of ‘The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur’ and in demand public speaker. Some of the questions I asked him were:
- His take on the status of entrepreneurship in Jamaica ?
- What are the top two takeaways from [...]
Pileojobs.com - All Caribbean jobs on one site…
May 10, 2009 | Filed under Caribean Startups
I discovered pileojobs.com on Twitter this week. It’s a simple solution to a real problem. There are now over 20 Caribbean job sites and really who has time to go to all of them? Pileojobs.com solves this problem…as they said one search gives you access to hundreds of jobs. They launched in beta this week. [...]
Free Press Release Submission Websites for the Caribbean
May 10, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
I’m in the middle of creating an online publicity campaign for a client and found three free Caribbean-focused press release submission websites - caribpr.com which was the first PR wire of the Caribbean which is based in New York, caribbeanpressreleases.com which is out of Barbados and then we have Jamaica-based jamaicapressrelease.com and a sweet list [...]
Oodge.com - Your Caribbean and African Restaurant Guide
March 23, 2009 | Filed under Caribean Startups
So while I was minding everyone’s business on Facebook as usual, I saw this group with a weird name and it had to do with food and Caribbean Food at that. So on further investigation and a few emails later, I got to the bottom of it all. Here’s the email interview I did with this startup [...]
Tweet This: I’m now a believer and a twitterer, here’s why
March 4, 2009 | Filed under Blog
I opened my first twitter account on September 4th, 2008. I figured, I’m a technology blogger, I test-drive lots of products, services and website, so why not this-since the buzz was getting hot and heavy. After I set it for my blog siliconcaribe.com, twitter.com/siliconcaribe, I twittered exactly twice there after and abandoned it. I just didn’t get it.
Yet, [...]
Jamenus.com - Jamaica’s Virtual Food Court Launches
February 3, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
Jamenus.com is a Jamaican startup that offers consumers the option of ordering their favourite food online islandwide and from the convenience of home and office. We spoke to the CEO and co-founder Oraine Godfrey to give us some more details.
SC: When did you launch jamenus.com?
OG: JAMENUS had its soft launch on Sunday January 11 2009. The soft [...]
IS4WE.com – A Dedicated Caribbean Search Engine launches
January 27, 2009 | Filed under Caribean Startups
IS4WE.com “is a dedicated Caribbean search engine in every sense of the word.” Those were the emphatic words of Muhammad Ibrahim Abdullah, the Ceo of this new Caribbean web startup. So I said ok, cool, explain that to me and in fact answer a few other questions for me too, I think my readers would [...]
Making Money Online with Zazzle.com
January 23, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
Online entrepreneurs are always looking for additional revenue streams and affiliate programs have always been a popular option but I feel that another source is seriously overlooked - sites like Zazzle.com (similar to CafePress but way better in my opinion).
Selling merchandise works for a number of different online ventures and for people seeking out new [...]
Top 10 Facebook Marketing Resources for Caribbean brands
January 23, 2009 | Filed under Blog
In September 2007 I could count on my right hand, the amount of Jamaican Facebook groups that existed. Fast forward to now, just over a year later and they are now numbering in the high hundreds and Caribbean people at home and abroad have been pouring online in tens of thousands, to make this an [...]
21 Entrepreneurship Websites Worth Checking Out
January 19, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
The number of websites dedicated to helping entrepreneurs is incredible: there are always new sites, to the point that it can be hard to keep track of them. However, I have a few favorites. There are some tools I absolutely rely on for everything from marketing to billing, some blogs I read constantly and a [...]
Why bother surf to Caribbean sites anyway?
January 16, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
I went to make a digital marketing campaign presentation at a Jamaican company the other day and one of the questions I asked the executives in the Q&A discussion was, to name me the top 5 Jamaican/Caribbean sites they go to regularly, meaning at least once a week. They were stunted and silenced.
After [...]
Herrd.com in the dotcom deadpool? Caribdaily.com the new frontrunner
January 5, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
I first wrote about the Barbados-based company Herrd.com – (the Caribbean News Social Network where you can share, discover, bookmark, and promote Caribbean stuff that’s important to you) when they were weeks old. The fresh-faced Caribbean startup which launched in July 2007 was mapping the global online trend of news via social networking, gunning to [...]
My Top 5 Favourite Seth Godin blog posts
December 29, 2008 | Filed under Blog, Personal
I read a lot of blogs and many of them every single day. One of my must read blogs is Seth Godin, thought provoking marketing guru and who’s books Tribes, The Dip, Meatball Sundae, Small is the New Big, All Marketers are Liars,Purple Cow, Unleashing the Idea Virus, Permission Marketing I’ve read and never lent. [...]
Why You Should Fire Your Clients And Launch A Product
November 26, 2008 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
If you were offered the choice to create one of two businesses—a web development shop where you do bespoke work for clients, or a start-up where you build your own product and sell it directly to customers—which would you choose?
Both of these business models involve the same activity: building web sites and web applications. Yet [...]
MyEliteGrocer.com - Grocery Shopping and Home Delivery for People on the Go in Jamaica
November 12, 2008 | Filed under Blog, Caribean Startups
My Elite Grocer (MEG) is a lifestyle management solution for People On The Go, who would rather be someplace other than Standing-in-Line for Groceries. The site and the Service launched in Jamaica this month.MEG’s pitch is simple… ” Grocery Shopping and Home Delivery, leaving you free to live today’s lifestyle the way you want to…the [...]