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

Transformify

Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Game Development, Git, Google Maps API, HTML, HTML5, Internet Security, Javascript, jQuery / Prototype, Magento, Mobile App Testing. Just like its neighbours, Ghana is a predominantly agricultural country dependant on the cocoa production. What are the most common skills in each category?

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Millions of people have no bank account or access to loans; internet and mobile telecoms access is patchy, corruption on a local level can see entrepreneurs bribed, and political instability can mean that basic services and utilities are constantly interrupted.

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11 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

Unfortunately, there is too much content on the internet; I aim to cut through that noise and recommend flicks that are worth the several hour investments—no need to spend half that time scrolling through streaming services. 10- Retire and live abroad in Ghana. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Disrupting VC

thebarefootvc

I remember writing a blog post in 2008, post-financial crash, on how the recession was going to re-vitalize the city’s tech startup community, which would eventually help diversify the NYC economy. Talent and domain expertise in NYC’s large industries such as financial services and media, would free up.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

I used to simply send emails over the internet, like everyone else, but this is so much more fun–except when one of my emails hit a colleague in the eye! As the co-founder of the Virtual Global Consultant (VGC) Group, I love the fact that we have created employment in underserved communities globally. 15- Creating opportunities.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So he said, "Okay, well you can look at all this human resources data for this mine in Ghana. So what would a randomized controlled trial for the impact of masks on community transmission look like? I was like, "I have no idea."