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

Transformify

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. The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences.

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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.

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How to Sell Your Roadmap Without Selling Your Soul

Both Sides of the Table

In part one I covered the need for early-stage enterprise software companies to build up professional services staff to ensure successful implementation projects. That’s a real risk so you have to manage expectations carefully. This is my third post in a series on Enterprise Software. That’s why I like deer.

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How Israel and the Arab World Connect Through Technology

David Teten

Markets include Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, the Arabian Gulf among others. “. Siraj Fund Management Company (SFMC) is the first Palestinian private equity fund manager. Hybrid “is the most far-reaching, in-depth program for early-stage ventures led by Arabs in Israel. Siraj Capital.

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First Annual MENA Tech Summit Launches in NY, for Investors and Entrepreneurs

David Teten

ABANA is impressed with the longstanding MENA contributions to growing the US tech sector and the surge of early stage companies taking off both in the MENA region and in the US by MENA immigrants. Onsi Sawiris, HOF Capital Co-Founder & Managing Partner, says, “The current growth of MENA markets is strong.

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4 Networking Tips for New Nonprofits

Up and Running

As you begin to build up a network, you can partner with other early-stage programs that are encountering similar challenges. Take, for example, Habitat for Humanity in Egypt. Creating a nonprofit network , however, can be just as challenging as building a nonprofit.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. I made an early investment in its ecosystem by backing Ad.ly.

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