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5 EO Australia Women Share How To Make Entrepreneurship More Inclusive

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Empower Girls To Reach Their Full Potential Entrepreneurship is a vital driver of innovation, job creation, and economic growth. The industries (primarily retail, education and other service industries) chosen by women are often perceived as being less important to economic development and growth than high technology and manufacturing.”

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African Startups Raising Investment to Further Drive Economic and Social Impact

Impact Hub

African aesthetics have inspired the global fashion industry and cultural icons worldwide. Onesha Technologies provides a scalable marketplace for small and medium-sized businesses to affordably hire skilled African freelancers and creatives to develop digital services. Technology services. Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.

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Understanding Vietnam

Derek Sivers

This is the first chapter of my new Vietnam 2014 book. Vietnam has long been considered the cultural and artistic heart of Asia, and the Vietnamese are the “Italians of Asia”. Since the late 1990s, Vietnam has had one of the highest economic growth rates in the world. A new “me-first” culture is rising.

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What Does Social Entrepreneurship Look Like?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We promote individualized learning by combining teacher- led and computer-based instruction, and emphasizing face-to-face and online learning, while traditional schools focus largely on book learning. We designed our academic program to encourage students to develop a genuine love of learning.

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Your deal flow is not diverse enough

TechCrunch

These things, in turn, exert a determining influence on our culture.”. While the numbers prove that the financial returns can be promising, the bigger impact and importance of investing in gender diversity is the overall economic growth and prosperity that follows. In Melanne Verveer and Kim K.

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Starting a SPARK

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We promote individualized learning by combining teacher-led and computer-based instruction, and emphasizing face-to-face and online learning, while traditional schools focus largely on book learning. We designed our academic program to encourage students to develop a genuine love of learning.

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Why Governments Should Invest in Their Diaspora Founders

David Teten VC

We are brainstorming a new solution to a widespread challenge in many countries: how to develop a self-sustaining, independent local tech ecosystem. In many ecosystems outside of the major tech hubs, founders face cultural, legal, reputational and other hurdles to building a successful tech company. Examples: .

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