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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. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Scrum, Agile, Product Management.

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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. They keep you involved even from the early stages of the value chain including selecting the right engineers and taking direction and input on the future technical growth plan for those engineers. Work directly with engineers, no company involved. Tom Nora.

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

These categories came from Yonder conference , a conference held to discuss just such challenges and solutions: hiring and onboarding. These categories came from Yonder conference , a conference held to discuss just such challenges and solutions: hiring and onboarding. Hire those you trust. Biggest future challenge: hiring.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I recently joined CoVenture , an early-stage venture capital firm that develops products and invests cash in exchange for equity. My comments here relate mostly to new or early-stage startups, as I’ve spent most of my career investing in those companies and it’s what we do at CoVenture.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Discrimination on race when you’re hiring is bad, discriminating on price based upon behavior of customers is very appropriate. Michael: Well, I’m very in the early stage, and my question reflects that. Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. You can simply discriminate. Jason: Nice.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. Seed Startups.