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

Transformify

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. April 6, 2010 8:23 AM Colie Brice said. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, I’ve talked often about our belief that an instant messaging add-on product would allow IMVU to take advantage of a network effects strategy. When we became a standalone network, it didn't matter how easy it was to add new networks, since we never did. This happened quite often in the early days of IMVU.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Business minded, agile CIO with strong social networking background. ► 2010. (14). Top CIOs talk Social Networking Usage and Policy. No Scrum Master? Social, Agile, and Transformation. and business transformation. Monday, June 18, 2012.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? © 2010 Derek Sivers comments Pam Mark Hall (2010-06-19) # Derek, Yes,Yes,Yes! Thanks you!

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Social networking. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Mailing lists/groups. Google Groups. Forms/Surveys. Google Forms. Survey Monkey. Google Ads.