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

Transformify

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. 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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Coffee vs. beer: Which drink makes you more creative?

The Next Web

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Every coffee drinker is familiar with the feelings after drinking a fresh cup of java. Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing over on the ooomf blog. Your brain on coffee.

Java 168
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APIs Make the (Crypto) World Go Around

The Startup Magazine

The crucial ones allow you to synchronize the wallet app with the blockchain networks to facilitate the transaction and make the process easier. Meant for a Java developer, this SDK provides all that you need to build your own wallet app, a cross-platform SDK library compatible with languages like C++, JavaScript, Ruby, and Python.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management. I think android / 4g networks will take over tablets. BROWN: Impersonation on social networks is a big problem.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators. FACEBOOK BUYS ISRAELI FEATURE PHONE MAKER SNAPTU.

Java 79
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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

Two founders works because unanimity is possible, there are no founder politics, interests can easily align, and founder stakes are high post-financing. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). Date first.

Cofounder 101
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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. And then the network can come to an agreed upon state that says, hey, this is a valid transaction. I remember trying to learn, like I had some books someone gave me, like learn Java in 30 days or something like that. I'm curious. This one's invalid.

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