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

Transformify

Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. Technology is changing how Nigerians live and do business, quite often in a remarkable way. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. million people live in poverty.

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Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

Steve Blank

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. He connects the Lab with the defense user community.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

BRIC nations especially are innovating and creating new technology platforms, while the west holds onto fossil fuel era. Unlike previous generations young Australians are participating in community activity, many of which do not involve any economic incentives. We are more interested in a niche fringe community than a mass event.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

billion page views making it the largest communities of artists in the world. I also spoke about the trend of open communications from radio to TV to telephony. I believe the natural success to that is Twitter more than any other technology of our generation. Think Tunia, Egypt, Syria and now Turkey. And rebellion.

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10 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider To Be Successful and why

Hearpreneur

Thanks to CJ Xia, Boster Biological Technology ! #7- Donkey milk was a famous beauty treatment in ancient Egypt. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. He is a perfect example of a person who created himself. He literally started from nowhere, but today his net worth is 48.3 billion USD. 7- Sumizeit’s founders.

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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. That includes me. Nobody knows that.

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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. The workshop was conducted by Danny Warshay using the Socratic method.