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Battery gives back to Israeli entrepreneurial community with venture creation workshop

VC Cafe

The workshop participants, of which there were about 30, brought diverse experience and expertise to the table – from young entrepreneurs with just a few years of experience in the consumer web, to seasoned executives with decades of experience in semiconductors, telecommunications and enterprise software.

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Website Design Tactics to Reduce the Bounce Rate

The Startup Magazine

If you have been noticing that despite getting substantial traffic to your website, not enough visitors are converting, it could well be due to them abandoning your site. Streamlining the website code by redundant characters also acts to considerably speed up the site. Have an FAQ Page.

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Michelle Dale: Mother Of Three Takes Her Kids Around Europe On A Ten Year “Laptop Lifestyle” Trip Thanks To Her $30,000+ A Month Online Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

She sold everything she had, paid off all her debts and left the UK with £10,000, which she promptly lost on a property investment deal gone bad in Egypt. Michelle was "trapped" in Egypt due to not having enough money to leave, so began researching internet business options.

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

Transformify

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. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. What are the most common skills in each category?

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

Companies that produce little value today might still receive high valuations due to high growth expectations. As you can see, not all of these multiples are comparable as some of the bubble era multiples were NM—not meaningful—due to negative earnings. The first major change was the move to relational database technology.

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Master mobile navigation

www.netmagazine.com

Discover all of our 2012 in review articles! With the distinction between mobile and desktop dissolving, managing a breadth of web experiences from a single code base became an intriguing reality – and made it more difficult to justify stripping away content from small screen devices. A Future Site â?¼. The balancing act.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Sure language has iterated, been redefined, shortened, coded… but the conversations are real and the more meaning and ideas are being exchanged. The Sticky Institute represents zine culture in a way that culture jams the old industry due to a lack of legacy infrastructure. The art of conversation is not being lost….

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