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

Transformify

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. 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.

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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

The group is about 22 people; managing directors, partners and COO’s of major investments firms in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia. Aspen is looking for institutional investor and entrepreneur speakers willing to share their investing insights and personal experiences. More details.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to spend time getting to know their future VCs early because getting a feel for your chemistry is far more important than how the VC is ranked in some survey. Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Read this story that is typical of many entrepreneurs with whom I talk. In fact, they seem intentionally opaque.

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21st Century War Propaganda: How Emerging Tech Can Help Temper the Digital War Machine

thebarefootvc

Greater and instant connectivity, but at a cost. As that narrative spread on the Internet with harrowing images coming from the site, thousands of protestors mobilized from Tunisia to Jordan, with Arab leaders canceling a summit with President Biden within hours. The Internet has always been a double-edged sword.

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