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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

In my two previous installments, I talked about the changing dynamics in many tech-centric cities. The Big Question: Why isn’t every company distributed today? Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. Real estate costs in tech hubs have skyrocketed.

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

Transformify

At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. Those countries relying on agriculture or oil production tend to have high unemployment rates and wide skills gaps. All participants have received bachelor’s degree or higher.

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Scaling Solutions to Climate Change — A review of John Doerr’s “Speed and Scale”?

Reid Hoffman

The decision to ramp up pre-approval production on multiple COVID-19 vaccines so they’d be ready to distribute if proven effective was a classic blitzscaling tactic. “Energy technology has mass, which means it doesn’t scale like Google or Facebook,” John writes. Then, there’s climate change.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. Sites such as OpenSky and Send the Trend utilize recommendations by celebrities and experts to sell products. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. We did not know how to price and package the product. We DID have a great product, though.