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

Transformify

70% of Africa’s population is under the age of 25 shaping one of the largest untapped talent pools in the world. What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? ” Speaking about gaps, let’s look closer at the skills gap.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. Joseph Mucheru East Africa Lead at Google.

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Salvo Global’s Six Lessons In Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Despite the intense competition, the company has established a strong position in the B2B events industry, with market presence in Asia Pacific (APAC), Africa, and the Middle East. That was when Salvo ventured into Africa. When we first started running events in Africa, nobody wanted to sell them. Now the reverse is true.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

In 2007, the BOINC framework became the home of World Community Grid , a distributed computing project created by the IBM Corporation. This last project was created in 2005 and it has managed to discover more than 50 pulsar and about 20 previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars.

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20 Essential TED Talks For Entrepreneurial Students

YoungUpstarts

She wraps up TEDGlobal 2007 opining on what they all mean for business-minded Africans and what still needs doing to stimulate their minds. Euvin Naidoo on investing in Africa. Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media.

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Today’s Market: A Bubble Waiting to Burst?

Growthink Blog

this year and are now approaching their 2007 highs. And a lot more of it comes from massive commodities-driven wealth in places like Russia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. These concerns are mirrored in the recent price run-ups in both the stock and real estate markets. So, will it all inevitably come crashing down?

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Happy International Women’s Day!

Up and Running

Her sons have carried on her legacy by continuing humanitarian work in Africa, so she must have done something very right. Don’t get me wrong, men are. absolutely wonderful and often times excellent in business leadership… However, so are women. Not only was she a caring leader, but a dedicated and loving mother.

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