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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? Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. Two is to reach up to 20,000 new households, including expanding into one, maybe two new markets outside Kenya. and we can’t do it by ourselves. The founders?—?Alex

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5 Reasons That Successful Non-Profits Are A Challenge

Startup Professionals Musings

Even then, the business and leadership efforts to solicit and manage donations cost real money, and may be more difficult than the marketing and sales jobs of most startups. Thus it’s hard to attract top-notch talent, premium locations, and first-class marketing campaigns. distributed cash aid from $137.9

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Blockstream

thebarefootvc

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. No where is this more apparent than in financial services.

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5 Reality Checks On Running A Charitable Organization

Startup Professionals Musings

Even then, the business and leadership efforts to solicit and manage donations cost real money, and may be more difficult than the marketing and sales jobs of most startups. Thus it’s hard to attract top-notch talent, premium locations, and first-class marketing campaigns. distributed cash aid from $137.9

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

Instead of countless usernames and passwords, you have one identity to use for a variety of activities you want guaranteed security: online shopping, social networking, online dating, and online financials. miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

In many ways the granddaddy of crowdsourcing platforms, Turk enables users to tap into it’s network of workers to perform tasks which computers are unable to do, but which humans can perform quickly and inexpensively. Twitter Link Roundup #64 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More.