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

Transformify

Well, there will be 2 copywriters, 1 editor, 1 blogger, 3 programmers, 1 Project/Product Manager, 1 Business/ Finance, 1 Sales/ Marketing expert. A tourism-oriented country in the past, now Tunisia focuses on education, skills development, and technology. What are the most common skills in each category? million people live in poverty.

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

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They have to make the tough decisions about where to allocate scarce resources, what the future business model will become and how to compete with other large platforms out there. But I’m not sitting at basecamp with the Twitter staring up the mountain and making decisions about the best route to the top. They are at basecamp.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. I think that today’s journalists want a simple story: “Twitter hasn’t yet proved its business model” but I think that misrepresents the long-term value.

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