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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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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

I wrote down things like “I want to be able to go volunteer in Africa for 6 months when I want to. I also couldn’t be just a volunteer for non-profits as you gotta live and flying to Africa is not that cheap + would have to worry about financial security. The only possible solution: the income had to come from the internet.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. He expressed to me the idea that investing in Africa was—he used the word “risky.” I don’t think investing in Africa is risky. Dan has a B.A. with Honors) in Political Science and an M.A.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

This was borne out of my personal frustrations in scouring the internet and needing to stitch together my own half-baked solutions. In 2007, I left my career to become a stay-at-home mom. I have a mix of incredible clients across multiple industries, while also continuing to give back to the nonprofit sector. 25- To Create Dignity.

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

YoungUpstarts

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. (Unless it’s a high-end supercomputer with a computing capacity of 10 000 regular PCs.)

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Master mobile navigation

www.netmagazine.com

With the advent of the iPhone in 2007 our concept of what it meant to access the web from a mobile device changed dramatically. That number is higher in places such as Egypt, Brazil, and South Africa, and it’s growing worldwide. And when you did so, you went right to the site, got the information you needed, and left.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

As head of technology investments at the Partnership Fund from NYC 2007-2010 I collaborated with Partnership management, the Bloomberg administration, and NYC Economic Development Corporation to launch several initiatives, including a seed fund, incubator space, and the Fintech Innovation Lab.