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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

My client handled the whole thing with aplomb, fortified by a decade of immersion in the distinctive culture and language of Egypt and the Arab world. What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway? Perhaps most importantly, IT and Internet business are simply a breed of their own.

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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. There will be 3 programmers and 1 QA, 1 copywriter and 1 Blogger/Editor, 1 Product/Project Manager, 1 Business / Finance, 1 Marketing and 1 Sales expert.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Or maybe you’re trying to dramatically change the way TV is consumed, like Boxee or TV advertising works on the Internet, like Hulu. They have to make the tough decisions about where to allocate scarce resources, what the future business model will become and how to compete with other large platforms out there.

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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. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). General Internet. -

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

And while DataSift is a provider of multiple real-time data feeds, I would like to be clear that Twitter is by far the most important and dominant of the real-time publicly available data that exists on the Internet today, which is why today’s bet for me is on the Twitter ecosystem.

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