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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. 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. Project/ Product Management.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

And why should these transactions cost the poor more than they cost the wealthy? Now, almost ten years later, sub $25 smartphones are broadly available there, and mobile operators in the Burmese market are focused only on smartphone applications for the networks – not even SMS messaging. I last went to Burma in 2007.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

And why should these transactions cost the poor more than they cost the wealthy? Now, almost ten years later, sub $25 smartphones are broadly available there, and mobile operators in the Burmese market are focused only on smartphone applications for the networks – not even SMS messaging. I last went to Burma in 2007.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

And why should these transactions cost the poor more than they cost the wealthy? Now, almost ten years later, sub $25 smartphones are broadly available there, and mobile operators in the Burmese market are focused only on smartphone applications for the networks – not even SMS messaging. I last went to Burma in 2007.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. Speaking a good level of English is also paramount as Silicon Valley investors are now looking to emerging markets to make investments.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher." So really it is not just the English-speaking, but since you're talking about addressable market, I had a thought about it. I think that addressable market is probably, maybe, in the tens of millions, maybe hundreds but definitely not in the billions.