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

Transformify

Well, there will be 2 copywriters, 1 editor, 1 blogger, 3 programmers, 1 Project/Product Manager, 1 Business/ Finance, 1 Sales/ Marketing expert. Soon after the adoption of the ‘’Marshall Plan’’ it became clear that the workforce locally does not necessarily possess the skills the business needs.

Africa 75
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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Hashtags were organically created by the Twitter community the way that RT (retweets) were and OH (over heard) was and #FF (follow Friday), etc. We have no clue where the community will help take Twitter next. That summit would have been so foggy from day one you couldn’t have predicted it. They are at basecamp. That includes me.

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Battery gives back to Israeli entrepreneurial community with venture creation workshop

VC Cafe

Danny is an entrepreneur, investor and Brown University Professor of Entrepreneurship , and has recently held similar workshops in China, Egypt and Portugal. B attery Ventures held its first Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation Workshop in Tel Aviv on July 1 and 2 (see VC Café’s previous coverage of the workshop here ).

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. Journal Community. Top Groups In Small Business. Journal Community.

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The 10 Greatest Social Entrepreneurs Of All Time

YoungUpstarts

These social entrepreneurs use their know-how and business savvy to make the world a better place, combining a traditional business model with a pressing social mission in ways that have been helping to make big changes in places around the world for decades. in addition to his duties at Ashoka. Muhammad Yunus.

Egypt 250
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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. So it fostered a community of “try anything you want” developers and many people did just that. Twitter now has the human resources to deal with its developer community and to outreach to VCs who would back them.

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