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

Transformify

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. According to the fund chairman, Ronnie Osumba, the start-up market is yet to be explored. Sales & Marketing/ Writing. What are the most common skills in each category?

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Market Opportunity. But what about markets? We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. One of the common refrains that I heard was that investors were looking for “large markets with lots of white space.&# This annoyed me to no end.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Real-time information drives decisions about marketing spend on movie releases. The Importance of Twitter. Not so on Twitter.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

As you become a large, open network for referral traffic your long-term strategic value goes up. I think this fortress company knows open will win over time and I think their instincts (or the market) will lead them in the right direction. As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. That’s the Google lesson.

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Walk Like an Egyptian

Growthink Blog

And while the concept of Tunisia and Egypt being ‘Twitter” revolutions is over-stated, it is true that easy media connectivity has greatly accelerated organized action on long-held social and political discontents. Now I am going to Walk Like an Egyptian. Looking for Opportunities Now?

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