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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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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

The group is about 22 people; managing directors, partners and COO’s of major investments firms in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia. Promising start-ups exist in the region but the lack of a robust ecosystem for IT companies is a challenge, as is the lack of a link with US market. More details.

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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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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

In 2010 not "very smart" feature phones - handsets that are dumber than smartphones - comprised over 75 percent of the mobile market. One of the differentiators of Snaptu, is that the company chose the feature-phone market as its core audience. The acquisition is supposed to close in a few weeks. source: [link].

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

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. I’m hoping that HTML5 + mobile will lead them down a more open path. Social Media helps change that.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Think about this: The investment banks and trading houses across the globe have invested billions of dollars in computing equipment and staff in order to process news that affects stock prices milliseconds before the rest of the market can process & transact on this same information. Real time + location equals marketing opportunity.

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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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