Join Port Elizabeth and MyPE in congratulating Mover and Shaker, Charles Stretch from SMSPortal: The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber's Top 40 Under 40 is a showcase of the dynamic young business talent in Nelson Mandela Bay. And, 30-year-old SMSPortal MD, Charles Stretch has made the grade for the 2014 list. Beginning SMSPortal from a garage in Port Elizabeth in 2002 with James Pearce, today it is a R400m business sending 200 million text messages a month. “We had no business … [Read more...] about Charles Stretch
Charles Stretch
James Pearce and Charles Stretch
Join Port Elizabeth and MyPE in congratulating Mover and Shakers, James Pearce and Charles Stretch from SMSPortal: Each year Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University honours alumini who have made, and continue to make valuable contributions in their field and society and exemplify the NMMU values. Last night, Charles Stretch and James Pearce SMSPortal’s co-founders were recipients of the NMMU Alumni Association Rising Star Award for 2013. Starting in the back of a garage with R20,000 and … [Read more...] about James Pearce and Charles Stretch
New opportunities for young entreprenurs
Three students: Lubabalo Akhona Twane, Thabisa Sylvia Ngesi and Bontle Lungelwa Kheletsane from NMMU have won an exciting opportunity, and tools to create their own bulk SMS business. The budding entrepreneurs won the tools, a PC and a Blackberry, as well as support needed to begin a successful web-based business from SA’s leading bulk SMS provider, SMSPortal. Charles Stretch, SMSPortal’s MD said of its initiative: “My business partner and I began our business as students, we want to … [Read more...] about New opportunities for young entreprenurs
