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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? Sales & Marketing/ Writing. Project/ Product Management.

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30 Money Saving Tips For Your Business

Up and Running

You’ve heard it before and it’s still true: going green saves green. For more information on greening your spaces, check out Energy Star, a program run by the U.S. Craigslist, yard sales, ebay, etc- If it doesn’t absolutely need to be new, get a nice, functional used one and save the money. South Africa.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Photo Credit: Ryan Niddel.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Motivation to Grow Their Business

Hearpreneur

Starting my own business has given me the freedom to spend more time with my family and kids, go for a hike in the morning, make a green smoothie, and work with innovative direct-to-consumer companies that I am personally passionate about and are creating some force of good in the world every day. 8- Personal growth and accomplishment.

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Steve and Kate the Remote Worker

Transformify

Steve one day decided to call on his marketing manager at the end of the year to give him report about their sales thus far from January to almost the end of the year. After much talk Steve noticed that a country in Africa known as Nigeria is the major patronizer of his telecommunication products.

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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. And Beyond….

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The 10 Greatest Social Entrepreneurs Of All Time

YoungUpstarts

Drayton spreads out his social entrepreneurship expertise in other organizations as well, working as a chairman at Community Greens, Youth Venture, and Get America Working! The company works by reusing or recycling books through sales on their website and donations to schools, and so far has used 84 million volumes to raise $12.1

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