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Battery gives back to Israeli entrepreneurial community with venture creation workshop

VC Cafe

Danny is an entrepreneur, investor and Brown University Professor of Entrepreneurship , and has recently held similar workshops in China, Egypt and Portugal. B attery Ventures held its first Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation Workshop in Tel Aviv on July 1 and 2 (see VC Café’s previous coverage of the workshop here ).

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

Transformify

To address the internal migration trends, in 2013 the government adopted ‘’Marshall Plan’’ The plan forces the companies to hire locally and create jobs for the local communities. Egypt is highly dependent on oil production and the economy is very sensitive to the oil price fluctuations.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Unlike previous generations young Australians are participating in community activity, many of which do not involve any economic incentives. We are more interested in a niche fringe community than a mass event. It’s the community that matters more than the trader. A community who vest their interests in each other.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

billion page views making it the largest communities of artists in the world. Think Tunia, Egypt, Syria and now Turkey. Another is DeviantART who are able to tap into hundreds of millions of people around the world who produce art and help them making a living. That’s why dA has nearly 70 million monthly actives producing 2.5

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

Both Sides of the Table

Hashtags were organically created by the Twitter community the way that RT (retweets) were and OH (over heard) was and #FF (follow Friday), etc. We have no clue where the community will help take Twitter next. That summit would have been so foggy from day one you couldn’t have predicted it. That includes me.

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Should Your Small Business Engage In Newsjacking?

YoungUpstarts

Just last year, fashion designer Kenneth Cole’s Twitter account joked about the beginning of the Arab Spring protests in Egypt , tweeting, “Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Small businesses looking for examples of big brands behaving badly can look past Hurricane Sandy to see other newsjacking controversies.

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Join a conference simulcast near you

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.