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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? Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We have now grown into an overnight hit, as we had built up a huge community of black women with skin conditions years before even launching Topicals. But it wasn’t until I was in Africa several years ago that I was inspired by the people I met there to follow my own dreams – and start a new business.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results.

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

Examples of the tasks performed by the Turk community include translation, transcription, image tagging and even searches for missing persons. is the first company to devise s system to effectively crowdsource SEO (search engine optimization) services. Plus the actor Edward Norton is the force behind this social-crowd venture.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Why do you have tiered SEO packages? SEO should be all-inclusive, and affordable. It had always been a dream of ours to flip houses for a living just like our favorite HGTV shows, so we founded Premier Property Buyers with the intention of building a business that would serve the community and provide a secure future for our family.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I was doing freelance SEO consulting for e-commerce businesses and on my first trip to Thailand fell in love with the country and the culture. I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years. 10 – To Keep Traveling Abroad.

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30 Entrepreneurs Describe The Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

And while our platform is currently limited to the United States, my goal is to expand our search algorithm and resource database into spanning the entire world, be it in Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, etc. 16- Transform communities. We want to inspire and educate more businesses to ethically source from Africa.