Eric Edelstein
Technology Entrepreneur. evly.com Co-Founder & CEO
Born 22-05-1975
in Durban
South Africa
Eric Edelstein is a Financial Analyst turned Serial Internet Entrepreneur, and occasional Angel Investor.
He has co-founded many of South Africa's largest Internet marketing & product companies such as the incuBeta group (Click2Customers, TrafficSynergy, & Yola) & the CrowdTech group (springleap & evly).
His latest Internet Startup provides software for organisations looking to constructively engage with their customers and employees - evly.com
Eric is passionate about all types of online marketing, but especially search marketing (pay per click & search engine optimisation), affiliate marketing and social media marketing.
He is based in Cape Town, South Africa, but spent the first half of 2011 living in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
He speaks regularly at tech conferences, (he was president of the Ernst & Young Toastmasters club in Cape Town in 2010, and has achieved the "Competent Communicator" level in Toastmasters International) and writes for business & technology media.
Eric was included in Mail & Guardian's "Top 200 young people to have lunch with", and Old Mutual's "Top 36 South African young entrepreneurs".
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Eric Edelstein's Professional details
Current Position(s)
Co-Founder & CEO | evly
Cape Town, South Africa | 2010 - present
Online Media, Internet and E-Commerce
Software that can be used by organisations on their Facebook Fan pages & on their own websites to "constructively engage" their fans, community, customers, and employees.
"Constructive Engagement" means the organisation can entertain their users, but get business value at the same time.
Our 1st software product is "ideas" whereby the community can suggest on ways that the organisation can improve, and then vote and comment on all the other ideas. When the organisation makes a change based on an idea from one of the community, the change can be voted and commented on.
We have a free & paid version of the "ideas" software - to try it out, go to http://www.evly.com, and click on "products" on the top of the page. (it takes about 5 minutes to install and set it live on your Facebook Fan page)
Accounting, Banking and Finance
Global Sunset Investments is an early stage investment fund that invests in start-up's primarily in the Internet Consumer space
Previous Position(s)
Online Media, Internet and E-Commerce
incuBeta was a holding company I founded together with Vinny & Charlene Lingham & Llewellyn Claasen which started a number of brands, primarily on the Internet, many of which were later spun off into separate companies.
incuBeta has now been renamed Clicks2Customers.com (the name that the company started off as), a specialist Search Engine Marketing agency, focusing primarily on Pay Per Click.
Here is details about when clicks2customers was founded:
http://www.clicks2customers.com/about/company-history.html
Other Brands which were founded and nurtured at incuBeta include:
TrafficSynergy - Affiliate Network
Synthasite (renamed Yola.com) - Website Builder
Some of the brands have been sold off, and I remain a shareholder in some of them.
