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Startups Without Borders Podcast
by Startups Without Borders
The Startups Without Borders Podcast is a business interview show that uncovers the unspoken lessons of some of the world’s most audacious risk-takers: migrant entrepreneurs. Each week, we will dig into the different aspects and mindset behind building a startup, as told by industry leaders, brave change makers and bold disruptors with one thing in common: they are refugees and migrants. From the Middle East, to Europe and beyond, the show will focus on concrete, tangible strategies and tactics for entrepreneurs, from productivity tips, to business hacks, to industry insights, as told through the inspiring journey of entrepreneurs on the move. The show is hosted by Valentina Primo, an Argentine journalist and the founder of Startups Without Borders, who spent 6 years in Egypt interviewing startup founders across the Middle East, and fell in love with the relentless, unstoppable spirit of its entrepreneurs. Valentina previously launched Startup Scene
Episodes
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42. How I Became a Startup Founder, Refugee, and Norwegian Woman of the Year, all at Once
Maria Amelie is the co-founder of Factiverse, an AI-startup that automates fact-checking and research with AI and NLP, which recently raised 1 million euro in private and soft funding. Maria, who had to leave her home country of Russia in 2002, became the center of a political controversy when…
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41. I was fired and started my own business: This is how I took the leap of faith, with Bibi de Vetter
Born and raised in Cameroon, Bibi de Vetter has been based in The Netherlands for over 17 years. As the founder of Startup Investments, she hosts private events to help early-stage startups raise capital and to find the resources they need to achieve their full potential. Bibi's life took a turn...
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40. From the US Senate to IBM, here's how I made change happen - with Rana Novack
Rana is a Syrian American advocate for refugees and civilians in conflict, and the solution owner of IBM’s Refugee & Migration Predictive Analytics Solution -- a first-of-a-kind solution, leveraging machine learning and cognitive computing to enable Government agencies and humanitarian aid...
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38. Navigating the Startup VISA across 5 countries - How I started a business in Europe with 5 Euros
Born in Peru, Luis Daniel Maldonado comes from multicultural family origins, in fact, there is Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Nordic and Slavic blood running through his veins! Driven by the need to find his own place and culture while at the same time valuing his ancestors, he moved to the…
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36. From a refugee camp, to breaking financials borders, from Afghanistan to Ukraine
Today, I wanted to share one of the top panels from our last Startups Without Borders Summit, which took place in Cairo Business Park last February. In this fascinating conversation, Tey Alrjula, Founder of Fluus Finance, shares how blockchain inspired him to change the ID system through this...
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35. How I Created an AI Community in the Midst of War, with Hassan Dayoub
Today, we speak to Hasan Dayoub, an award winning entrepreneur, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning engineer who is obsessed with changing the world. Having reached over 20,000 people with his AI Club in Syria, Hassan went on to build FutureLaby, a startup that uses Augmented Reality to...
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34. My journey to Finding Purpose, from Nigeria to Spain
Today, we speak to Jane Oma, the protagonist of an inspiring tale. The President of Upside Africa and a Leadership Coach, Jane arrived in Spain with nothing but a strong desire to search for purpose. Today, Jane is an advisor at the Geneva Business School and the founder of The Mother Eagle...
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33. Behind the Scenes of Building an Impactful Business for Dubai's Migrants
Spandana Palaypu was only 20 years old when she started her social startup, ZoEasy. Having moved from India to Dubai at 6 years old, she experienced the richness of cultural diversity first-hand. However, she soon realized it was not the same for everyone. Inspired by the heart-wrenching stories…
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32. 5 Tips to Navigate SIlicon Valley When you Feel You Don’t Fit In
In episode 32, we meet Min Chen, an entrepreneur who has lived the entrepreneur's life since she was 4, when her parents moved to migrate from China to Panama with only $800 in their pocket. Min knows what it means to start over and then lose everything all over again, as it happened when the US...
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31. 5 Things you need to know about the US Startup Visa
Becoming an immigration attorney wasn’t in Tahmina’s plan. But ten years after moving to the USA, she was at the epicentre of the fight for the Startup Visa bill, to support entrepreneurs who were not allowed back into the US. When the Muslim Ban was signed, she became a warrior for change,...
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30. What You Need To Know About Hiring Refugees in Tech Companies
In episode 30 of the Startups Without Borders Podcast, we team up with RefugeeForce to talk about a new reality reshaping the workplace across Europe: Hiring talented Refugees to Fill the skills Gap in workplaces. In this candid conversation, we speak to to RefugeeForce co-founder Gaspar…
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29. 7 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know Before Starting Up in the Middle East
Anas Alchalabi or “That Entrepreneurship guy” as he’s known in the streets of the Middle East, has enabled hundreds of Refugee founders to create Small Empires (Tech Startups) that solves major challenges in Industries like Finance, Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Retail. For the past 4...
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28. This is What I Learned Acting as a VC for One Year
Yama Saraj is an entrepreneur and a "social hacktivist" as he calls himself. He was born in Kabul Afghanistan, raised in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and is now based in Paris where he working n his startup while is lecturing at an MBA school. After working in developing assistance in Kosovo, DR...
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27. 5 Things You Should Know About Starting a Business in Europe as an Immigrant
Irma Rodriguez had a great job in Mexico, working for one of the biggest banks for medium and large corporations. But at some point, the situation in her home country became too much of a risk for her family. As she moved to Milan, Irma faced a myriad difficulties to set up a business and...
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26. How I Turned the Pandemic into an Opportunity to Reinvent My Business, with Randa Bennett
Today, we speak to Randa Bennett, a London-based tech founder and CEO of V-Loop, who recently launched her podcast, An Immigrant Girl. Having immigrated to the UK in the late 1990s, Randa worked through learning English, going to university and building a career in a male-dominated tech industry,...
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25. How to Succeed When Everything Seems to be Against You, with Majd Mashrawi
Majd Mashharawi is one of the fiercest, most relentless women you’ll ever meet. Having grown up in war-torn Gaza, Majd came up with an incredible idea: to rebuild damaged buildings using bricks made of ash and rubble. Her second startup SunBox, an affordable solar power system that produces…
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24: Making it as a Digital Nomad: How to Create Revenue Streams that Generate Passive Income
Today, we speak to Francisco Ortiz, a Digital Nomad who has taken on the mission of teaching thousands of people how to become financially free. Francisco is a Youtuber, social media influencer and investor who left the comfort of his office job in Argentina and began exploring the world…
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23. 5 Things You Should Know Before Pitching to a VC, with Nora Bavey
In this episode, we speak to a tech wonderwoman democratizing capital in the Nordics: Nora Bavey. Nora is an award-winning entrepreneur, and the General Partner at Unconventional Ventures, a VC fund investing in startups created by underrepresented founders. Having moved from Iran to Sweeden at…
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22. Can We Map the Refugee and Migrant Startup Ecosystem?
From London, to Amman, to the Greek refugee camps, There is a growing ecosystem of entrepreneurs, incubators, supporters and investors building a movement made up of valiant migrant entrepreneurs. What does that transnational ecosystem look like today? Join us in this exciting panel from our last...
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21. How to Turn Being Overlooked into Your Biggest Asset, with Lauren Maillian
If there is one word that dominated the media landscape this past year, it’s diversity. The Black Lives Matter movement brought to light a whopping disparity in startup funding: Black women have received only 0.06% of all Venture Funding since 2009. In this power-packed fireside chat, we meet the...
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20. Meet the Investors Backing a Brave New Startup Landscape
It’s a well known statistical fact that immigrants are over-represented among entrepreneurs; in fact, 55% of one-billion dollar startups were founded by at least one immigrant. How can the investment sector tap into this opportunity, as the number of refugees is projected to dramatically…
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19. Cutting Through the Noise: Getting People to Use your Product
I’m super excited to present another panel from the Startups Without Borders Summit, with two entrepreneurs and media powerhouses from Egypt and England: Anthony Rose, and Amy Mowafi. Anthony Rose, “the man who saved the BBC” sits down with Egyptian media mogul Amy Mowafi to crack the code behind...
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18. Mastering Media Relations When the World is Not Paying Attention
How to get people to listen when the whole world is entering panic mode? As we dive into a Brave New World where everyone is constantly bombarded by messages online, getting your story across is one of the hardest challenges. To answer this question, we’re bringing you one of the top panels at…
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17. Be Online or Be Invisible: Tips to Build a Leading Website, with GoDaddy
How are top websites dominating the new normal? As we just concluded the Startups Without Borders Summit in Amsterdam, Cairo and San Francisco, I’m very happy to announce the first of our Talks Revisited. In this episode, Selina Bieber, GoDaddy’s Senior Regional Director for Turkey, MENA and…
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16. How this “Invisible Man” Created a Blockchain Startup in a Refugee Camp
This is a very special interview. Tey Al Rjula’s story is one for the movies. Having spent two years in a refugee camp in the Netherlands, Tey used that time to do an online masters in Blockchain, and then created Tykn, a startup that offers stateless people a virtual form of ID, using…
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15. How to Teach Yourself Anything and Become Your Best Self, with Alaa Alnuaimi
Today, we speak to Alaa Alnuaimi, an Iraqi entrepreneur who moved to Turkey following the war and managed to build a massive design studio that garnered international giants as clients, such as Nike, Pizza Hut, and KFC. In this episode, Alaa recalls his journey across Egypt, Syria and then…
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14. Why Diversity is Important in a Startup Ecosystem?
If you’ve been on our site, you’ve probably seen this figure, but it’s worth repeating over and over again: the lack of diversity is costing the tech industry a missed opportunity worth almost $400 billion dollars. But what if we started looking at migration as an opportunity? What if we…
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13. What is the Real Story? When Refugees Internalize an External Narrative
You know I love storytelling. So when I heard about a project called ‘Telling the Real Story,’ I was immediately drawn. The project, which was facilitated by UNHCR, landed to the Startups Without Borders Summit last November 8 and 9, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be speaking to one of its...
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12. Why Refugee-lens Investing is the next Impact Frontier
Have you ever heard of impact investment? Well, I think everyone should. That’s why we teamed up with UNDP’s Innovation Lab to bring to topic to the forefront of the agenda at the Startups Without Borders Summit. We gathered some of the most impactful investors and entrepreneurs across the Middle...
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11. How to Build a Strong Community - and Monetize it, with Reem Sabouni
Our incredible partners at Facebook joined the Startups Without Borders Summit to support the migrant and refugee entrepreneurs building vibrant communities in the Middle East. Now, gear up to meet an incredible bosslady and Syrian entrepreneur Reem Sabouni, whose startup Arab Mom’s Club, has…
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10. Is the exit a startup’s biggest goal?
Today, we want to bring you another of the amazing panels that took place at the Startups Without Borders Summit. We decided to talk about an issue that seems obvious for many entrepreneurs who are familiar with the startup landscape, but poses a question for those who think of their companies as…
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9. From Refugee to Best-Selling Author, with Chaker Khazaal
Today, we speak to Chaker Khazaal, a Palestinian-Canadian author and entrepreneur who opened the Startups Without Borders Summit and left the entire audience shocked: he presented the world’s first interactive silent speech. Born as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, Chaker immigrated to Canada,...
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8. “Entrepreneurship is survival,” with Omar Samra, Omar Nour and Amy Mowafi
In the rollercoaster that is starting a company, how do you confront fear? Is there such a thing as fearlessness? Today, we’re bringing you the most anticipated panel held at the Startups Without Borders summit. Listen to two audacious Egyptian entrepreneurs and adventurers, Omar Samra and Omar...
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7. 6 Thought-Provoking Voices from the Startups Without Borders Summit
What is refugee-lens investment? Did you know refugee entrepreneurs have one of the highest repayment rates for loans? How can storytelling have a real impact on migrant and refugee entrepreneurship? In this first episode of the Startups Without Borders Summit series, our partners at Arcast...
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6. The Secret to Growth Hacking, with Spacepreneur Nader Sabry
Growth hacking is crucial for startups, especially when seeking rapid growth in the early-stages. But how can entrepreneurs unlock the secret to exponential growth? Today, we speak to Nader Sabry, an Egyptian ‘space-preneur’ who used NASA technology to disrupt an industry that hadn’t had…
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5. The Secret Sauce: How to Do Good while Doing Well, with Saddam Sayyaleh
Saddam grew up in the Jerash refugee camp, in Jordan. It was from that unlikely setting that he embarked on an incredible journey that took him to India and back to Jordan, to start a social enterprise that empowers youth. In this episode, we dig into the principle of ‘Value first, profit…
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4. The Number One Question: How do I fund my startup? with Ana Alvarez Monge
This truly IS the number one question: you have a disruptive idea, but how do you fund your startup to kick-start? How do I choose an incubator? How do I approach an angel investor? Are banks an option? In this episode, we speak to Ana Álvarez Monge, an unstoppable force from Costa Rica that is...
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3. Understanding Big Data: How it can Change Your Business (and the World), with Berat Kjamili
Big data is a 42-billion dollar industry today, and it’s projected to reach 103 billion by 2027. But the question on everyone’s mind is what is big data? Are there reasons to be worried about privacy? How hard is it to create a big data startup? Today, we sit down with Berat Kjamili, a Macedonian...
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2. How to Partner like a Pro and Build a Strong Community, with Aline Sara
You’ve heard it over and over again: sometimes, the right partnerships can make the difference between making it or breaking it. But how can you identify the best partners, and secure them? How do you ensure it is a win-win partnership you can leverage on? In this episode, we speak to Aline Sara,...
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1. 5 Keys to Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset, with Ahmad Sufian Bayram
What does it take to go through the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship? How to embrace failure as part of the game? In the first episode of the Startups Without Borders podcast, we sit down with Syrian entrepreneur, author, and tech leader Ahmad Sufian Bayram to uncover the 5 keys that make up a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Startups Without Borders Podcast is a business interview show that uncovers the unspoken lessons of some of the world’s most audacious risk-takers: migrant entrepreneurs.
Each week, we will dig into the different aspects and mindset behind building a startup, as told by industry leaders, brave change makers and bold disruptors with one thing in common: they are refugees and migrants.
From the Middle East, to Europe and beyond, the show will focus on concrete, tangible strategies and tactics for entrepreneurs, from productivity tips, to business hacks, to industry insights, as told through the inspiring journey of entrepreneurs on the move.
The show is hosted by Valentina Primo, an Argentine journalist and the founder of Startups Without Borders, who spent 6 years in Egypt interviewing startup founders across the Middle East, and fell in love with the relentless, unstoppable spirit of its entrepreneurs. Valentina previously launched Startup Scene
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