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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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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

View from Seed

As the former Head of Product at Blue Apron where I also built and led our Analytics & Data Science team (I know enough SQL to be dangerous), I have an intuitive sense for the “when” and “what” of this role. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s This is a bit of an oversimplification as there are many sub-disciplines within finance?—?accounting/controller,

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Looking for a Robust Consulting Career With Financial Software?

The Startup Magazine

Learn Oracle Basics Like SQL, pl/SQL: There are some key technical skills required in ERP consulting. Therefore, professionals looking to become ERP Consultants must have an understanding of Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, and Jdeveloper.

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Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights

Duct Tape Marketing

And then once you do that, learn how to write SQL or use this thing and look at all your data and then extract the right metric. We have a lot of sales data, some finance data, although people are a little less likely to share that even though it's anonymous. Social media. Yeah, CRM data. So it's a lot more marketing and sales.

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Apache Spark Becomes Easy To Implement With These 7 Tips

YoungUpstarts

Spark SQL + Dataframes: A module that provides a structured data processing interface via SQL-a language used for communicating with a database. Finance Industry. Apache Spark helps the finance industry to get the insights for risk management, customer satisfaction, and targeted advertisement. Security Industry.

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How to Nail Your First 90 Days as a CX Director

ConversionXL

You’re impartial to the emotional labor the design team put into redesigning the homepage and unsympathetic to the rationale that finance gives for sending buyers through a convoluted payment process. Finance team. Do you need SQL skills to pull reports, or are there dashboards? Right now, you’re just like your new customers.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist.