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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

” There is no law, other than the word of the manager on duty — who decrees that we could get in with the camera if we paid some ludicrous amount of money to procure a permit on the spot. What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway? Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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

Transformify

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Project/ Product Management.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

The key here is to transfer foreign management expertise and technologies to China while tapping on its huge domestic entertainment market. By now, many would know that China is expanding aggressively to West Asian and North African countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Libya and Egypt.

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How Do Educational Leaders Motivate Aspiring Students?

The Startup Magazine

Group projects and assignments allow students to get involved in the learning process and obtain real-life exposure to project management. Or perhaps, you remember how your history teacher’s lights lit up and shone every time she discussed the Pharaohs of Egypt?

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Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

Steve Blank

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. Matt Weingart, program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Listen to my entire chat with John.

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International Tourism Grew 4% In 2012: UNWTO

YoungUpstarts

Yet international tourism managed to stay on course,” asserts UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai. Results in the Middle East (-5%) improved after a 7-percent decline in 2011, yet the region recorded an estimated 3 million international tourist arrivals less in 2012 in spite of the clear recovery in Egypt.

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Most Overused Buzzword On LinkedIn Profiles? Creative.

YoungUpstarts

Egypt: Multinational. You want to draw people in and entice them (whether they are potential hiring managers, business partners or clients), so they click through to read the whole story – in this case, your complete LinkedIn profile. Here’s a quick look at what the 2012 No. Brazil: Experimental. Canada: Creative.