Remove Africa Remove Green Remove Sales Remove Technical Review
article thumbnail

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.

Africa 75
article thumbnail

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. Review your operating expenses. Invest in new technology. Environmental Protection Agency. Use Open Source and Cloud Computing.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.

Nigeria 40
article thumbnail

The Art of Work with Jeff Goins [VIDEO]

Up and Running

Whether you think your craft is entrepreneurship, or in my case, it’s writing and communication, maybe it’s sales, maybe it’s making whatever widget that you make. I remember interviewing this family who moved to Burundi, the second poorest country in the world, located in East Africa. How do I actually do this?

Video 60