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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. What are the most common skills in each category?

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20 Best TED Talks For Students Of Social Media

YoungUpstarts

And social media frequently makes news, including when it accelerated the uprising in Egypt this year. Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks. There’s no denying that social networks can be influential. When a plane crashed into New York’s Hudson River in 2009, it was a Twitter user who broke the news.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

At the recent DWEN (Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Conference) in Delhi, India, I talked to women entrepreneurs from around the world, hearing how they not only have to surmount the usual challenges of starting a business, but must often fight cultural norms as well. Ignore the odds; be a survivor. Remember, they can’t eat you.

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Walk Like an Egyptian

Growthink Blog

And while the concept of Tunisia and Egypt being ‘Twitter” revolutions is over-stated, it is true that easy media connectivity has greatly accelerated organized action on long-held social and political discontents. It is young people with qualities like this that are changing Egypt. And everyday in everyway it just gets more so.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

At the recent DWEN (Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Conference) in Delhi, India, I talked to women entrepreneurs from around the world, hearing how they not only have to surmount the usual challenges of starting a business, but must often fight cultural norms as well. Ignore the odds; be a survivor. Remember, they can’t eat you.