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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. Well, there will be 2 copywriters, 1 editor, 1 blogger, 3 programmers, 1 Project/Product Manager, 1 Business/ Finance, 1 Sales/ Marketing expert. Still, the unemployment rate is 14.1%

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

Both Sides of the Table

If you look at Hulu and said, “the networks will never enable a strong competitor to broadcast TV you’d need to put your head in the sand. 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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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Not so on Twitter.

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