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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? What are the most common skills in each category? Project/ Product Management.

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

Hearpreneur

It’s argued that social entrepreneurship is the new business model due to its ability to help one connect with the world and live a purposeful life while serving others. We are beginning to focus on and create initiatives toward being more green. 2- Recruiting the unemployed from Africa. Photo Credit: James Green.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

We use gestures or our voice to control our engagement with our technology. None of this could be mined successfully in the past generation of technology. 62% look at online peer reviews. We read increasingly using our digital devices. We compute using our smartphones and tablets. We take courses on-line.

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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. Review your operating expenses. Invest in new technology. South Africa. Environmental Protection Agency. Ask for a discount.

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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. Photo Credit: Shaun Taylor.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Thanks to Rob Greene, Price of Meat. #13- Later they failed to keep up with technologies and the digital boom and have even filed for bankruptcy twice. Due to significant debt and the auto industry's collapse, Durant lost ownership of GM to a banker's trust just two years later, in 1910.

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The Impact of Techbikers – Part II

VC Cafe

In the bumpy ride from the capital, you see the landscape change drastically from the crowded and dirty (partly still due to the earthquake) city to the green, lush valley, filled with terraces and small villages scattered in the mountains. 10 Literacy Instruction programmes implemented in South Africa, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh.

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