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Fast Forward Venture Studio to build African startups from idea to scale

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It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. Here are some of the startups in the venture studio portfolio.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

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After we opened the museum, the director and curatorial staff were talking about how to how to reach even more people who wouldn’t be able to come to the museum and experience it,” says Jill Roberts, program manager of the Searchable Museum at the Office of Digital Strategy and Engagement (ODSE).

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The Good and the Bad of.NET Framework Programming

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In 2014, Microsoft announced a dramatic shift in the way.NET exists by presenting.NET Core, a new cross-platform, cloud-friendly, and open-source version of the framework.NET Core made it to a release in 2016, becoming the main technology to consider for new.NET projects. It’s a cross-platform re-build of.NET Framework.

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PMs And the Dark World Of Triple Constraints

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First Published: March 24, 2016, By Michael Kropff?—?Management Management Practice Associate When I was finishing up my MS in Project and Systems Management I remember my instructor driving the point home that Project Management was all about working within the triple constraints of cost, schedule, and scope, also known as the Iron Triangle.

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