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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. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Business / Finance. Business / Finance.

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Why Don’t We Make Learning A Computer Language A Requirement In High School?

Feld Thoughts

Once a year Howard Lindzon gets together a bunch of his friends at the intersection of financing, tech, media, and entrepreneurship, we descend on The Del in Coronada, and have an awesome 48 hours together. I spent this weekend at LindzonPalooza. When I compare it to French 3, I wanted to learn conversation French.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C. AI is not a market, AI is embedded in every application: AI is not a market, it’s an enabling technology just like Java, wireless, and blockchain are.

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Coffee vs. beer: Which drink makes you more creative?

The Next Web

Every coffee drinker is familiar with the feelings after drinking a fresh cup of java. Both coffee and beer (in moderation) have shown to be helpful when you’re working on certain types of tasks, however, you shouldn’t drink either when you need to do detail-oriented or analytical projects like your finances. Your brain on coffee.

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

I’d bet anything that fewer students that participate in hackNY —will wind up in finance jobs relative to their computer science peers who just follow existing recruiting tracks. So where to start? Create a model for learning that is both effective and economically efficient.

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Apache Spark Becomes Easy To Implement With These 7 Tips

YoungUpstarts

If you are working with Apache Spark then you would definitely know that it has 4 different APIs support for different languages including Scala, Python, Java, and R. Scala leads to more productive outcomes than working with Java. It is important to note here that Java and Scala are the language prerequisites to install Spark.

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Standing Cloud Raises $3 Million

Feld Thoughts

My friends at Standing Cloud have closed another $3 million financing from us ( Foundry Group ) and Avalon Ventures. They’ve also added a long time friend, co-investor, and amazing entrepreneur Will Herman to the board. Standing Cloud is a great example how one of our funding strategies plays out.

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