You heard it right. springleap made the business section in the Cape Argus today. It was awesome to see one of South Africa’s biggest daily newspapers supporting our Innovation 100 nomination

Here’s me pointing to the article in the Cape Argus. And check out the tshirt I’m wearing – it’s from the April winners and is called Mi Carozan

Here’s a close up of the article, but I don’t think it’s big enough to read. The title is easy to read though “SA Firm leaps into place for top prize”.

But the most amazing thing about this business is that the article next to ours is written by an incredible guy called Gavin Chait, who has a weekly column in the Argus.

However, little known to many people is that a few years ago, Gavin started a new healthy food diner called Rovuma in Sea Point, which I got involved in. And when that venture unfortunately didn’t work out, Rovuma became eSquared, which is the clothing shops Eran & I started setting up before setting up springleap!!!

SMALL WORLD!

Anyway, if Cape Talk & the Cape Argus still haven’t convinced you to vote for springleap in the Nomination 100 Awards, then PLEASE PLEASE VOTE FOR US.

Click here for the voting link, and remember to leave us a comment after you vote.

David Donde, the owner of Origin Coffee in Cape Town, and popular talk radio host mentioned the springleap innovation nomination on the midnight session of 567 / Cape Talk on Friday night

And I’ve just been called by my sister to tell me that my G-dmother in JHB called her earlier today to tell her that she had heard springleap being talked about when she was listening on Friday Night! Can you hear us shouting with joy???

Vida eCaffe & Origin are now tied for my number one cup of coffee since eSquared closed a few weeks ago. (although I won’t forget the legendary cups of coffee I had their for MANY YEARS).

Which is your favourite coffee shop? If you’re in Cape Town, try out Origin and comment on whether you prefer Vida or Origin?

SA Good News, a South African website which finds all the good stuff happening in South Africa, wrote an article on springleap yesterday called:

SA internet company up for intl innovation award which focussed on the nomination we got in the Innovation 100 Awards

Check out the story at SAgoodNews.co.za

We issued our 2nd press release today which was a short to the point take on how we’re trying to do things South African!

So we named the press release “Springleap.com truly deserving of the Proudly South African title”

You can check out the press release on BizCommunity

Wow! 2 mentions in 2 days. Yesterday was the Sunday Times talking about springleap in the “Hot Thangs” section…

And then today we got a call from a couple of the springleap guys to let us know that we got a mention in “Die Burger” which is one of South Africa’s LARGEST Afrikaans newspapers.

In the section called “Surf jou weg hierheen”, it says that “springleap maak die koelste T-hemde in Suid-Afrika”!

Our translation – springleap makes the coolest Tshirts in South Africa. We have to disagree slightly. We think springleap makes the coolest Tshirts ANYWHERE in the world!

But thanks “Die Burger” – what an awesome way to start the springleap day.