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

Transformify

At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher.

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Scaling Solutions to Climate Change — A review of John Doerr’s “Speed and Scale”?

Reid Hoffman

The decision to ramp up pre-approval production on multiple COVID-19 vaccines so they’d be ready to distribute if proven effective was a classic blitzscaling tactic. Over the last few years, I’ve also come to realize there are much broader applications for a blitzscaling approach. Then, there’s climate change.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Startup accelerators modeled after YCombinator and Techstars sprouted up from NYC to Nigeria to New Delhi, spawning hundreds of new startups worldwide. This will continue as more role models, mentors and capital are created from the resulting success stories, thereby creating more support for the next generation of entrepreneurs.