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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. Well, there will be 2 copywriters, 1 editor, 1 blogger, 3 programmers, 1 Project/Product Manager, 1 Business/ Finance, 1 Sales/ Marketing expert. Business / Finance.

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Twitter Link Roundup #62 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

“Only purpose of your 1st round of financing is to build a product, prove it has value&# – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 30+ Strikingly Designed Green Themed Websites – [link]. Ask yourself why? – [link].

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

So at 62 years old instead of preparing to retire, I started a green energy business called Waste to Energy Systems. You can seize an opportunity like literally taking garbage and turning it into a green solution. This is the beauty of being an entrepreneur. Thanks to Richard Woods, Albany Woodworks Inc ! #5- 5- A number of reasons.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". For (B) there are some tens of billions of rectangular green reasons to keep it quite secret until some good lawyers have done good things with patents. Here is an extreme example: Idea (A) is a pill, taken once, and safe, that will cure any cancer right away.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate. I’m a web designer but I need to find a dependable software developer to team with.

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Twitter Link Roundup #134 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Some thoughts on when to raise money, and the current financing environment – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 29 Green Eco-Friendly Website Layouts – [link]. 29 Green Eco-Friendly Website Layouts – [link].