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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. 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.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. During my trip, I spoke to an older Indian couple in Mandalay who ran an antique shop that had gathered inches of dust due to lack of activity. Use a mobile phone to transfer money?

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. During my trip, I spoke to an older Indian couple in Mandalay who ran an antique shop that had gathered inches of dust due to lack of activity. Use a mobile phone to transfer money?

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. During my trip, I spoke to an older Indian couple in Mandalay who ran an antique shop that had gathered inches of dust due to lack of activity. Use a mobile phone to transfer money?

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. So you learn to really look at the data and also in tech, you also know this, it's very, very hard to figure out the truth from the information you get, the signal from the noise.