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

Transformify

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. What are the most common skills in each category?

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Avoid New Venture Shortcuts That Scare Away Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Nice-to have” and “easier-to-use” products, or social ventures needing government support, are not likely to provide a financial return to investors. Marketing programs and distribution channels are required for even the best solutions, with an appropriate and viable rollout and growth strategy. You make your own luck in this game.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Yet amid this grim news, we also can’t underestimate the triumph of modern biology over a novel disease variant — enabling companies such as Moderna to develop a vaccine formulation in two days without physical access to live cultures, faster than even the virus itself traveled around the world. Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S.

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The 2018 State of Conversion Optimization Report

ConversionXL

This is the third issue of our report (the first was published in 2016) and—with three datasets available—we begin to see some trends. The imbalance was evident in 2016, and the trend seems to be continuing (at least in our sample population). The female CRO population decreased from 27.6% (2016) to 17.3% (2018). of the total.

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Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

Smart cities are a new approach to urban development. They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. Rapid urbanization is a crisis. Examples of Smart Cities.

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SXSW Startups: Fantag

Austin Startup

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. and how this development furthers Fantag’s mission? John invested and became an active Advisor to Fantag. Sleeping more!

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Tapping the Strength of Intergenerational Living During a Crisis: A Nonprofit Board President’s View

Board Effect

As Board President, I’ve been using my expertise to focus on training the current board in best practices for nonprofit governance. We’ve formed a Safety Committee, a Property Committee, and a Governance Committee, and we’re looking for the right people to form a Programs and Services Committee.