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Ronnie Apteker

This piece of text is on an alternative medium

Although difficult to define accurately, alternative media can be seen as the use of tactile and non-mainstream media options in an effort to reach the increasingly elusive and all-important consumer. On hearing the word "alternative", the first ...

Views: 289 | 2 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 | Tags: advertising, alternative media, branding, internet, media, traditional media

Ideas don’t move mountains, people do

After not looking at any potential new movie projects for the past year, I read another synopsis for a feature film recently. I liked the concept a lot but I felt the story needed to be explored a bit further; more importantly, I thought the characte...

Views: 391 | 2 Comments » | posted on Saturday, July 26th, 2008 | Tags: filmmaking, Ideas

You don’t have to be smart to make money

No one can deny that much of the Western world is bent on pursuing cold cash. Ask a bunch of high-school graduates what they want to do when they leave school and nine out of 10 will say: "We want to make money." So, if making money is important t...

Views: 679 | 8 Comments » | posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 | Tags: business, money

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Ronnie Apteker was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967 and attended high school and university in Johannesburg where he graduated Cum Laude from the University of the Witwatersrand with an M.Sc in Computer Science in 1994. Apteker studied computer science for nine years and co-founded the country's first Internet service provider in 1993. Internet Solutions (IS) has been one of South Africa's most successful post-apartheid businesses, employing over 1000 people and winning numerous technology awards. Ronnie has authored a number of papers that have been published both locally and internationally. In February 1994, Ronnie was invited to present a paper in San Jose, California on Distributed Multimedia at the annual meeting of the International Society for Optical Engineering. This paper was subsequently published in the SPIE/IEEE proceedings. Apteker is the author of TRADING SPACES and co-author, with Jeremy Ord, of DO YOU LOVE IT IN THE MORNINGS? Apteker writes the Great Debate feature in the Business Report every Friday with his one partner Justin Drennan. Apteker sponsored and produced the successful Laugh Out Loud fundraiser in 2002. He has also been involved in 9 film productions over the past 7 years, the latest one being Jerusalema (www.jerusalemamovie.com). Apteker also sits on various boards and committees within South Africa and is involved in many charity organizations and fundraising initiatives. Apteker is an entrepreneur at heart and is currently involved with a host of online initiatives including vottle.com, sonicspaza.com, randgo.com, wantitall.co.za and Top of Mind.