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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. Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher.

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My 13 Favorite Alternative Funding Options of 2013

Up and Running

Instead of looking at your credit score or asking you for your business’s detailed financial statements, Kabbage asks you for your UPS, PayPal, Amazon, Square, eBay, and/or Quickbooks accounts, and then uses the data it gathers from those accounts to determine your sales revenue and cash flow itself.

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MicroAid: Helping Entrepreneurs Rise Out of Poverty

Up and Running

” One way they’ve improved the lives of members a community was to help solve the problem of fuel efficiency for cooking in a small town in Kenya. Many entrepreneurs have been exploring ways to connect with this demographic, including the Harvard Business Review discussing sales strategies for this group.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Presenters: Kristin Kaune (CEO, BioLumber), Mitch Templeton (Sales, BioLumber), René Gamboa (Legal, BioLumber), James “Ed” Kaune (Founder & Inventor, BioLumber). CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding. Cleantech Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Chouette.

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Revolutions In Online Payments With Gold

YoungUpstarts

A good example from the developing world is the Mpesa mobile money transfer that has revolutionized the way people in Kenya do their daily business. You can make payments at the point of sale where they accept MasterCard prepaid cards or transfer the money for free to anyone anywhere in the world within a fraction of a second.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Presenters: Kristin Kaune (CEO, BioLumber), Mitch Templeton (Sales, BioLumber), René Gamboa (Legal, BioLumber), James “Ed” Kaune (Founder & Inventor, BioLumber). CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding. Cleantech Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Chouette.

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

thebarefootvc

In Kenya, M-Pesa processed more transactions domestically than Western Union did globally, and “ provided mobile banking facilities to more than 70 per cent of the country’s adult population” , most of whom never had banking services before. And Beyond….