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

Transformify

At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad.

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Steve and Kate the Remote Worker

Transformify

Steve one day decided to call on his marketing manager at the end of the year to give him report about their sales thus far from January to almost the end of the year. So he called his marketing manager, the manager whose name is Jack gave him the report with several strategies outlined which they applied to get better results.

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Scaling Solutions to Climate Change — A review of John Doerr’s “Speed and Scale”?

Reid Hoffman

For start-ups looking to achieve leadership positions in emerging and highly competitive global markets, it makes sense to prioritize speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty. When I first started sharing the concept of blitzscaling , then later wrote a book about it , I was primarily focused on a very specific business context.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Mobile Marketing Comes of Age: Retailers finally began to see the promise of location based applications and consumers changed their shopping behavior using their mobile devices. Startup accelerators modeled after YCombinator and Techstars sprouted up from NYC to Nigeria to New Delhi, spawning hundreds of new startups worldwide.

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20 Essential TED Talks For Entrepreneurial Students

YoungUpstarts

One of the world’s most beloved and stimulating repositories for human knowledge available, it certainly explodes with amazing business, marketing and inventing advice. As Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala understands how trade, aid, private investment and government support all impact an economy differently.

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Resources for Global Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

Research on your target market. So, if you were the founder of a green energy startup in Sydney, Australia, you would Google “green energy business incubator in Sydney, Australia.”. These guidelines include using fair advertising and marketing practices and addressing consumer complaints. Market research resources.

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