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

Transformify

Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Project/ Product Management.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. So, in the end, what the hired programmer produces wont be even "Version 1.0",

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Updated Business tools for Startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Ad Serving Technology. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.