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

Transformify

Those countries relying on agriculture or oil production tend to have high unemployment rates and wide skills gaps. The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. Project/ Product Management.

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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. In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation. More details.

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

Both Sides of the Table

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. Dots is all about people.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

Not just the fact that you Tweet publicly versus privately, but also that they’re open in letting their Tweet stream flow into other products & services. I just want to point out that longer-term value is often harder to perceive when a product is still going through its growth stage. They’re an open feed.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. What does that mean?

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