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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. Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. Business / Finance.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Market Opportunity. But what about markets? We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. One of the common refrains that I heard was that investors were looking for “large markets with lots of white space.&# This annoyed me to no end.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Think about this: The investment banks and trading houses across the globe have invested billions of dollars in computing equipment and staff in order to process news that affects stock prices milliseconds before the rest of the market can process & transact on this same information. Real time + location equals marketing opportunity.

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