Transformify
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
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.
Transformify
APRIL 15, 2016
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. Sam Gichuru CEO at nailab.
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Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 16, 2015
My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Techstars Mobility (Detroit).
VC Cafe
JUNE 11, 2010
B efore we literally kick off the first ball in the 2010 South Africa World Cup, below is a collection of interesting links on Israeli startups and more for the week of June 11th: Interesting startups of the week. Even a few of the large exits such as Dune Networks did little to improve the Israeli VC funds balance.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
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. This was in 2007. What do I really want from life?
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2018
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. To solve any substantial computing task you’ll need more than one computer. Commercialization.
Eric Friedman
AUGUST 18, 2021
In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. I don’t think investing in Africa is risky. Dan has a B.A.
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