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

Transformify

Of course, the hiring needs vary a lot and are dependent on the business model, but a skills gap analysis reveals that more product managers, programmers, and sales and marketing experts will be needed in the near future. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." Abhijit foresees primarily a technology licensing business model whereby device vendors would be paying royalty per handset or tablet.

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Twitter Link Roundup #200 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II) - crowdspring.co/1atXci8. Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy – crowdspring.co/1aQZQ04. Entrepreneur PSA – Advertising Businesses are Hard | Seth’s Blog - crowdspring.co/1aHHgHS.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Refactoring yourself out of business Let me start out by saying I am a big fan of refactoring , the ongoing process of changing code so that it performs the same behaviors but has more elegant structure. Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups.

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Cracking The Code: Why I disagree with Tony Zingale on the future.

Cracking the Code

Capital requirements are NOT much lower than for traditional software development, in fact they are much higher (70% to 100% more) for several reasons that you can read here - Both time to market and break even are also NOT shorter than traditional software companies.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Rob, frankly I’m surprised you’re endorsing this business model. #5 at 9:42 am I agree with the point by Reader X that the Free/Premium model is a marketing strategy. Rob, frankly I’m surprised you’re endorsing this business model.&# at 1:59 pm i do believe it depends on your business model.