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

Transformify

70% of Africa’s population is under the age of 25 shaping one of the largest untapped talent pools in the world. What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? What are the most common skills in each category?

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FinTech Accelerating Digital Transformation of Banking in Africa

The Startup Magazine

FinTech players are increasingly becoming an important part of the fabric of Africa’s financial services ecosystem and the leading banks on the continent are now more urgently seeking to harness technology innovations, collaborate with FinTech start‐ups, and create a platform to scale much faster – to make digital financial services pay.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. Well, McKinsey estimates that consumer spending in Africa will double, to $1.8 These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them. Support U.S.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

In our experience international entrepreneurs need to work on being more confident in their pitches and succinctly communicating their idea, business model, market size and what problem they are going to solve. Africa ahead in mobile. Governments supportive of technology. Many female entrepreneurs.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. We work with non-profits, for-profits, US Government, and international organizations, to identify the underlying goals, the users needs and abilities, and put together an appropriate technology solution to meet the requirements.

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