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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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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. Nairobi is the undisputed startup hub of East Africa, and perhaps all of Africa. and we can’t do it by ourselves. Has Pawame been involved with other pitch events?

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5 Reasons That Successful Non-Profits Are A Challenge

Startup Professionals Musings

A common complaint from many non-profits is that both government and private funders would rather spend their dollars on ‘sexy’ causes such as children’s charities, cancer, and heart disease, rather than long-term causes like global warming and erasing hunger in Africa. distributed cash aid from $137.9 distributed cash aid from $63.9

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Innovation is Becoming More Broadly Distributed. Perhaps similar to the rise of successful China focused investors, we’ll see a similar wave of Midas list investors that have focused specifically on Africa or some other emerging economy. The SF-Bay Area continues to dominate the rankings, with 56% of investors based in that area.

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Internet Growth Means Big Changes For How Businesses Connect

YoungUpstarts

The other four RIRs serve Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Europe and the Middle East. The Asia-Pacific RIR and our colleagues serving Europe and the Middle East have already reached the last bit of IPv4 addresses to distribute to organizations in their respective regions.

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Blockstream

thebarefootvc

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required.

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Growth strategies for marketplaces: key takeaways from a fireside chat on growth

Version One Ventures

More than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended the event – coming from as far as South Africa and Nova Scotia. When we think about this question, it’s important to remember that startups today fail due to lack of distribution and product-market fit – not because of technical problems that they were unable to solve.