Remove Business Model Remove Java Remove Software Review Remove Technology
article thumbnail

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. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages.

Africa 75
article thumbnail

How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. So here is what we learned about the blockchain and DLT technology, brace yourself for the following disruptive talking points.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. Yet there is one silver lining when it does happen: we wind up throwing out working code , debt-riddled and elegantly designed alike.

article thumbnail

On technology commoditization

BeyondVC

If you ever wondered how Sun monetizes Java, I suggest reading Jonathan Schwartz’s (President of Sun) post on commoditization, standards, and Java. On the tech side, Jonathan believes it is mainly bandwidth that has been commoditized as opposed to a broader trend in software. The network is a commodity.

article thumbnail

How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

article thumbnail

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. 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. Code Igniter. code spaces (svn).