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

Transformify

What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Lagos, a Nigerian port city, is the home of more than 60 startups focused on solving social problems. What would a startup team look like based on this data only? More than 40 % have writing, editing, and copywriting skills. Business / Finance. Business / Finance.

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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. Monday, January 14 th : The Lower-Risk Startup: How VCs Increase the Odds of Investment Success with Operational Support – 5 PM, NYU Wagner at 295 Lafayette Street (Puck Building ).

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

VC Cafe

Facebook surprised with its first acquisition in Israel today (and its second acquisition outside of the US), with the announcement that it is buying Israeli startup Snaptu (previously known as Moblica) for an estimated $60-70 million.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Whatever their eventual path and outcomes – I would argue that their impact on Iran, Tunisia & Egypt – and frankly on the way that we as a society communicate now – has rendered them one of the most important technologies of the past decade. That line of reasoning would render the entire startup tech market useless.

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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. And everyday in everyway it just gets more so. And we’re all better for it. Now I am going to Walk Like an Egyptian.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. TweetMyJobs is a startup that interests me because it uses an open social interest graph to help job seekers and companies find each other. (no, Social Media helps change that. Questions for him with #jobs4US. no, I’m not an investor in the company).

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

So let me explain what I see as the importance and sustainability of Twitter as well as why I believe it’s still a great platform for startup companies and investors. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. The Twitter Ecosystem for Startups & Investors.

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