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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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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

I’ve found the best way to do this is to manage the projects daily. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager. Work directly with engineers, no company involved.

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

Traditional office working is losing ground as the “best way” to work, and managers supporting it are either of a generation where using social technologies is seen as lazy or timewasting, or they have the wrong team – i.e. a team that requires intense scrutiny to keep it working. . distributed project management. management styles.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Thor Ernstsson is the founder of Alpha UX , a product validation company serving real-time user insights to Fortune 500 product managers. I spoke with Thatcher Bell , Managing Partner, CoVenture. I recently joined CoVenture , an early-stage venture capital firm that develops products and invests cash in exchange for equity.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. Because one of the most important things for me is that it helps me to communicate with the other person that I manage my money with, who’s also spending out of those same accounts, my wife.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery.