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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. Lagos, a Nigerian port city, is the home of more than 60 startups focused on solving social problems. million and unemployment rate of just 3.4%, Rwanda is close to the top of the list.

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Counting On ‘Social Capital’: The New Way To Evaluate Entrepreneurial Worth

YoungUpstarts

The technological developments of the last decade have made the development of social capital essentially free, aside from the time and courage one needs to put into building it. Building social capital has never been easier. The Future of Entrepreneurial Readiness Evaluation. The team at kountable believes it can.

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Here’s to You, Women in Business

Up and Running

As reported by entrepreneurship.org , even when women have the skills needed to run ‘high-impact ventures, the lack of strong networks can dwarf their growth.’ And there certainly have been wins: Rwanda, a country so recently torn apart by war and genocide, is now stable and comprised of a parliament in which 63.8%

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The Gender Issue Part II

thebarefootvc

On my trip to Rwanda last year I wrote a blog post on why I thought diversity in general was important. Successful companies grow out of an ecosystem and network of support, and that includes mentors, investors and role models. And everyone, including the most successful serial entrepreneurs, can benefit from these networks.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So first of all, what a testament to social media and its power to reach- Tomas Pueyo : Huge. So it's the first time in my life that I pushed this to all my networks as hard as I could, and I was also very aggressive on the viral mechanics that I plugged into it. It's different networks mixing with each other and talking a lot.