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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

Click Allow Click Install Now After downloading, Restart Firefox 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups by Alex on December 18, 2007 · 13 comments Even 5 years ago an approach to infrastructure in a startup would have been different. The service has been used by many startups, including AdaptiveBlue.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

Waterloo, Canada-based Kik recently passed 80 million users, which was given particular significance from local media who noted that it took the 4-and-a-half year old startup past BlackBerry and its BBM mobile messaging solution. By day I did my job, but at night I wrote a piece of software to automate my job,” he recalls. “At

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. reinvented, with more people online and trained. It was mostly timing.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. If you don’t know how to code in C# then it is probably easier and faster to use Dreamweaver , Frontpage or the freeware KompoZer. Secondly you need some software to create flow charts in.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). FAQs What if the right guy already has his own startup? Many startups are grown while folks work their day jobs or part time (to survive).

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