Personera.com ’s story
Eve Dmochowska 
Sheraan Amod writes on the ISLabs blog about how he founded Personera, “a personalized publishing service offering useful print products enhanced with Facebook content“.
Sheraan’s story is one of those that any budding South African entrepreneur has to love: the concept of Personera is innovative, unique and has global potential and reach (in fact they do have customers from around the world). It is the first project launched under the SiliconCape banner, and they have a bridge to the global markets via Vinny Lingham who is an investor in the startup. They have been covered in the international media, including Techcrunch.
I will be watching them with keen interest, mainly because we really do need success stories, don’t we? And they have managed to overcome the hurdles that most local startups face, mostly with ingenuity and hard work. So it can be done 
Mostly, though, I will want to see where they go from here…and I mean “where”, literally. Will they stay in Cape Town and manage to run a global startup from Africa’s tip, or will they consider it worth their while to move to San Francisco (for instance)?
Either way, I am keeping tabs Think I will create a separate category about “Companies to watch”, and will then follow my own advice.
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