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

Transformify

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

Los Angeles, at least metaphorically, became more of a media/entertainment town. It’s probably not too controversial to say that the median level of sophistication of early stage entrepreneurs in Los Angeles is lower than that of Bay Area. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If someone wants to become an entrepreneur, is it more important to keep looking for a really good media idea that you can do a month’s worth of customer development on or is it better to think of literally what complete start up can I make in a week? Michael: Well, I’m very in the early stage, and my question reflects that.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups.