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Ian Petzer

@ianpetzer

Co-founder at @timbuktu_travel. Tweeting Startups and Tech

 Cape Town, South Africa
timbuktutravel.com
Joined April 2009
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A quote I often think back to: “Pessimists are often right, optimists are often happy and wealthy.” 🚀
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One of my favourite graphs (even though it's kinda sad) reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful…
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Eric Berry
@coderberry1 Jul 2020
I can now officially announce that I am currently looking for a new job. In fact, we have a very small, proven team of developers that are looking to stick together. Need a turn-key proven dev team? DM me RT's appreciated
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Anyone looking for a project manager in IT / tech? Either remote or Cape Town based? Please give me a shout. A friend of mine is looking for a new challenge
Don't miss out on our members @timbuktu_travel event with @Aerobotics_SA meetup.com/Timbuktu-Meetup/e… – at Parow, South Africa
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Hi @SiliconCape. Please RT our startup event next week meetup.com/Timbuktu-Meetup/e… with @benjimeltzer from @Aerobotics_SA . Great chance to hang out with people in the Cape Town startup community
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Hi @SiliconCape Tonight is the Timbuktu meetup meetup.com/Timbuktu-Meetup/e… …. Great chance to chat about startups and tech with no formal agenda. Come and join!
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Does anyone have any advice on a platform to use for email retargeting? Where you send emails to people based on the urls visited / events generated?
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Hi everyone, we are launching Timbuktu to the US market and we’re on product hunt today. Please could you give us an upvote on the following link. Just click upvote and create an account, and then click upvote again producthunt.com/posts/timbuk…
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If you have a hard time explaining a feature to your users, the feature is broken
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Adult principles, by John Perry Barlow
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Excited to be at African Angel Investor Summit #AAIS2017 with @SiliconCape @anfraser @JohnnyWCPrince @timbuktu_travel
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Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile20 Sep 2017
If you blow air through sand, it becomes a "fluidized bed," and acts just like a liquid
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1/3 of US bandwidth is used by Netflix... the rest is used by `rm -rf node_modules && npm install`
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Hooray! @timbuktu_travel is 1 of 20 out of 900 applicants selected for @XL_Africa programme ventureburn.com/2017/08/20-s… read it on @Ventureburn

Here are the 20 startups that will take part in accelerator XL Africa's first cohort

XL Africa has announced the 20 startups that will be taking part in its first cohort. The accelerator will help the startups raise up to $1.5m in capital.

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Heaviest objects in the universe
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Are there any cheap ways to process credit cards out there? Most seem to take 2%-3% which is a lot when you work on a small margin
If you want to work with startups in Africa, Amazon is looking for a Start-up Business Development Manager 4 Africa amazon.jobs/en/jobs/536858/s…
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Hi @SiliconCape @timbuktu_travel are looking for a junior/mid Front End Dev timbuktutravel.com/blog/juni… Great opportunity to learn modern tech
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Hi @CTFEDs @timbuktu_travel are looking for a junior/mid Front End Dev timbuktutravel.com/blog/juni… Work with a modern tech stack and learn
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