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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? Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain How They are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

We are beginning to focus on and create initiatives toward being more green. 2- Recruiting the unemployed from Africa. Photo Credit: James Green. Thanks to James Green, Build A Head ! #13- We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they’re incorporating social entrepreneurship and here are the responses. #1-

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30 Money Saving Tips For Your Business

Up and Running

You probably don’t have a big portion of your income that you can tuck away as savings, and you welcome opportunities to make your operations more cost-effective. You’ve heard it before and it’s still true: going green saves green. Really evaluate the cost and benefits to the company.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

The Rise of Conscious Capitalism: I’ve been involved with social entrepreneurship for years through my involvement with organizations such as Echoing Green and the Unreasonable Institute , and this is the year that I saw massive growth and interest in the sector from the mainstream. What’s Next in 2012…. And Beyond….

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Manjit Singh Sahota on Energy Tech Innovation in Oil and Gas Exploration

The Startup Magazine

One area experiencing significant growth in the number of operating oil wells is in Africa, whose oil wells are projected to increase by up to 9 percent over the next year. Automated drilling means that fewer engineers are needed to achieve the same results and may lower the cost of drilling once the expensive equipment is paid for.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

The screens were coming together and the color scheme I was using (using the primary African colors of Yellow, Green, and Red) was not bad. I thought of a name and settled on Kilimanjaro, after the highest mountain in Africa. “At a minimum, I should be able to use this myself,” I thought. The lawyer’s rate was crazy?—?$575

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Making a Difference Through Your Career

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Many people volunteer to build schools or teach English in Africa or Central America. If you’re pursuing a job in tech, San Francisco or Seattle may be your dream, but the cost of living is high. For example, if your employer approves you to work remotely for one month biannually, you could travel overseas to volunteer.