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

Transformify

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible.

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The “Grow or Die” Lie: Why Everything You Think You Know About Business Growth Is Wrong

YoungUpstarts

Between 2005 and 2007, Starbucks aggressively opened new store locations and made several operational changes that diluted its customer value proposition, diluted its high employee engagement culture, violated its real estate site selection controls, and weakened its high value-added ‘experience’ business model. magazine.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

In the summer of 2009, my wife and I caught the entrepreneurial bug and started a company without any prior business experience. We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. We’d never hired anyone.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. Appirio is one such company that jumped on this trend way back in 2007 and has now built a significant company in that space. Sequoia has financed them. Anyway, those are just a few blue sky ideas for you to go after.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

As your business grows, you will likely need more and more time from your accountant and at some point you’ll hire a full time person to handle the day-to-day, likely combined with roles as office manager or finance (not to be confused with accounting). Advertising.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity). Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. New Technology or New Market, meaning no “me too” ideas.