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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. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. Business / Finance.

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Could You – Should You – Fund Your Startup With Credit Cards?

ReadWriteStart

The relatively low cost of starting a tech business today has made this choice more enticing than ever. When Bob Herman founded Tropolis Group in 2010, he decided to finance with credit cards so he could take advantage of a cash-back rewards program and use the bounty to buy supplies for the business. Beware Revolving Credit Charges.

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Twitter Link Roundup #59 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Arming & Aiming: How to handle sales objections at a startup – [link]. 11 Ways Your Startup Can Deliver Support That Will Increase Sales – [link]. 57 Things I’ve Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies – [link]. 11 Ways Your Startup Can Deliver Support That Will Increase Sales – [link].

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Now this is worth stopping and thinking about for a second.

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Join My Online Split Testing Class on May 11th

Software By Rob

Due to technical difficulties I will be re-teaching this class at 10am PST on Tuesday May 11th. The entertainment value of me flubbing my way through an online presentation will be priceless… April 22nd, 2010 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Click here for more information or to sign up for the class.

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Late Stage Co-Founder Wanted, Screencasting Handbook Released.

Software By Rob

Triumph of the Nerds on DVD – An awesome tech documentary, and I recently discovered it’s on DVD. May 24th, 2010 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? There are a bunch of reviews linked on the homepage for anyone who needs to read more, along with the first 20 pages or so.

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Paying the Price of Success

Software By Rob

March 18th, 2010 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? It’s highly recommendable for people wanting to be micropreneurs, and gives an inside look on what starting a tech company looks like. #2 Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. 2 Rob on 03.18.10