SA's 'Young Guns'
by Sarah Manners
South Africa’s FM Campus is a magazine published by Financial Mail and is promoted as a publication aimed at students and lecturers. The publication serves to place news, current events and industry trends into an academic context. It’s a really good read and you don’t need to be a student or really even remember those hazy student days to subscribe so head on over and do it now (online version).
Salzwedel describes Rafiq as “a well-known figure in the local online world, first started making money on the Internet by designing websites in his first year of studies (software development at CPUT) in 2001. Now, his key services are 'helping companies understand and apply search engine marketing and other emergent trends and technologies that help them become more visible online and increase their return on investment.”
Rafiq joined Quirk this month and we sure are proud to have him on board!
The online space is the ideal platform for young entrepreneurs to begin building their careers and reputations and these “Young Guns” are certainly utilising it to the best of their abilities. For the full scoop be sure to read the article.
This article also got me thinking of another Young Gun – well not as young as the guys featured here but if this article was written 8 years ago he would definitely have been included. That’s right… our very own CEO, Rob Stokes, who founded Quirk while he was in his 3rd year of studies at UCT. Today, 8 years down the line there are three QuirkStations (London, Cape Town and Johannesburg), 42 QuirkStars, a host of local and international clients and a whole lot of success. And all of that came from one man’s idea.
If these young online entrepreneurs are headed on the same track they’re in for some great times.
Comments
post a commentYou flatter me Manners, these guys are all much smart than me. If I look at what I know now I realise what a dumbass i was back then :)
@ FM Campus... how about featuring some young lady entrepreneurs? I'm sure there are lots.
Posted by Rob on 2007/09/18
Rob - do you know of any? That's one of the toughest parts of my job is being representative, not cause there aren't any women, but because I cant find them... so any help would be appreciated!
Posted by Nic on 2007/09/18
Thanks for the mention, Sarah! :) Quirk is indeed very fortunate to have aboard someone of Rafiq's calibre! But the real question here is... can he play a good cover drive? :)
Posted by Michael Salzwedel on 2007/09/18
Plesh Mike - was a great article. I don't even know what that really means (I know cricket may be involved|) so we'll just have to wait and see ;-)
Posted by Sarah M on 2007/09/19
Thanks for the mention.. Rafiq is highly talented. I think everyone in mentioned in the article has a really bright future ahead.
Posted by Tyler on 2007/09/19
Thanks for the comments & compliments everyone. *g*
Michael: The answer is he can/could bowl, not bat.
Posted by rafiq on 2007/09/19
Nic you've got me stumped. I'm sure they are out there, but I can't think of a single young, female, tech entrep...
How do we find them and give them the credit they deserve?
Posted by Rob on 2007/09/19
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Hi guys! Thanks for talking about FM Campus with such vigour! I am very proud of the mag and its goals.
If you have any ideas for your, vibrant entrepreneurs or students please email me and let me know so I can maybe feature them in the magazine!! :)
Posted by Nic on 2007/09/18