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My interest in venture capital (VC) began long before I ever imagined building an actual venture capital fund. In college, I opened a women’s clothing store and quickly learned that having a great idea was only part of what it took to build a business. I needed capital to grow, and finding that money wasn’t…

Microsoft just dropped a major play in the enterprise AI race, unveiling new data innovations designed to help organizations tap into their unique business intelligence. The announcement, published on the company’s official blog, signals Microsoft’s push to differentiate its AI offerings by focusing on proprietary business data – the kind of institutional knowledge that generic…

A study, Childcare for Informal-Sector Workers: Delivery Models, Access, and Welfare, conducted by researchers affiliated with the Ace Policy Research Institute, the World Bank, the Uganda Development Bank, and the Nova School of Business and Economics, provides new evidence that affordable childcare can be more than a social service. Based on a randomized controlled trial…

James Emejo writes that Nigeria’s push to modernise agriculture is increasingly moving beyond the question of how many tractors are available to a more fundamental one; who will operate, maintain and maximise them? The graduation of 250 newly trained tractor operators under a federal mechanisation programme offers an early glimpse of how investment in human…

Hanoi (VNA) – Amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution, driven by digital technologies and with a digital workforce emerging as a key driver of productivity and business competitiveness, the Prime Minister’s approval of a project on training and developing human resources in the field of standards, metrology and quality is expected to create a breakthrough in…