Episodes

  • 42. How I Became a Startup Founder, Refugee, and Norwegian Woman of the Year, all at Once

    42. How I Became a Startup Founder, Refugee, and Norwegian Woman of the Year, all at Once
    Mar 18 2024
    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 she was arrested after a speaking engagement and denied asylum, only a year after she was awarded “Norwegian of the Year.”

    Her first book, which came out in 2010, led to a huge debate on refugees and contributed to a change in Norway’s immigration law. Since then, she has written five books on immigration, freedom of speech, and entrepreneurship and became Best Startup Journalist for her articles on growing innovation ecosystems in the Nordics.

    She is on the board of Startup Migrants, a company she co-founded in 2018 with an aim to help cities build inclusive startup ecosystems.

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    Photo Credit: Ahmed Najeeb.
    Song by: Funky Music, by Dj Quads.

    Dj Quads: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads https://twitter.com/DjQuads https://www.instagram.com/djquads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusF...
    Music from Soundcloud Music provided by RFM: https://youtu.be/lNrAAAb2JvI
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    33 mins
  • 41. I was fired and started my own business: This is how I took the leap of faith, with Bibi de Vetter

    41. I was fired and started my own business: This is how I took the leap of faith, with Bibi de Vetter
    Feb 19 2024
    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 when she was let go of her corporate job. But instead of letting that event become an obstacle, she decided to take the risk and start her own business.

    In this intimate conversation, Bibi shares the mindset that helped her see every ostacle as an opportunity.


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    Photo Credit: Ahmed Najeeb.
    Song by: Funky Music, by Dj Quads.
    Dj Quads: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads https://twitter.com/DjQuads

    https://www.instagram.com/djquads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusF...
    Music from Soundcloud Music provided by RFM: https://youtu.be/lNrAAAb2JvI
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    29 mins
  • 40. From the US Senate to IBM, here's how I made change happen - with Rana Novack

    40. From the US Senate to IBM, here's how I made change happen - with Rana Novack
    Jan 8 2024
    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 organizations to better manage refugee and migration crises.

    She’s been published in the Wall Street Journal, WIRED magazine, and her work has been cited by Yale University and the Foreign Policy Initiative.

    In a very intimate conversation, Rana shares her tireless journey to support Syrian refugees, from the US Senate to IBM, and how she learned to get resourceful when all doors seemed to shut down in front of her.

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    Photo Credit: Ahmed Najeeb.
    Song by: Funky Music, by Dj Quads.
    Dj Quads: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads https://twitter.com/DjQuads

    https://www.instagram.com/djquads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusF...
    Music from Soundcloud Music provided by RFM: https://youtu.be/lNrAAAb2JvI
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    33 mins
  • 38. Navigating the Startup VISA across 5 countries - How I started a business in Europe with 5 Euros

    38. Navigating the Startup VISA across 5 countries - How I started a business in Europe with 5 Euros
    Sep 25 2023
    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 Netherlands in 2016. He engaged in Multidisciplinary archeology expeditions and began researching ancient civilizations, until eventually developing a new mathematical system and method for algorithm design.

    Navigating the VISA, he started businesses in 7 different countries with minimum capital, including a company he founded in Finland with only 5 Euros.

    Today. Luis runs Matrix-Q Games, a Gamified School for entrepreneurs, and a startups program that offers startups holistic and inclusive systems based in nature.

    Listen to his powerful story and gear up to learn.

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    Photo Credit: Ahmed Najeeb.
    Song by: Funky Music, by Dj Quads.
    Dj Quads: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads https://twitter.com/DjQuads

    https://www.instagram.com/djquads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusF...
    Music from Soundcloud Music provided by RFM: https://youtu.be/lNrAAAb2JvI
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    36 mins
  • 36. From a refugee camp, to breaking financials borders, from Afghanistan to Ukraine

    36. From a refugee camp, to breaking financials borders, from Afghanistan to Ukraine
    Apr 3 2023
    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 revolutionary technology.

    After raising 1.5 million and exiting, he is now on a mission to help places where the system can’t reach through startup FLUUS, which empowers people to operate in war-torn regions, from Afghanistan, to Gaza, to Ukraine.

    Gear up to listen to a story as inspiring as it can get.

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    Photo Credit: Ahmed Najeeb.
    Song by: Funky Music, by Dj Quads.
    Dj Quads:
    https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads
    https://twitter.com/DjQuads
    https://www.instagram.com/djquads
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusF...

    Music from Soundcloud
    Music provided by RFM: https://youtu.be/lNrAAAb2JvI
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    45 mins
  • 35. How I Created an AI Community in the Midst of War, with Hassan Dayoub

    35. How I Created an AI Community in the Midst of War, with Hassan Dayoub
    Mar 20 2023
    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 help dentistry students.

    In this episode, Hassan shares the story of how he stepped up to lead a group of developers to train, empower, and raise the bar of AI in the Arab world, while his country was undergoing dramatic conflict.

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    Photo Credit: Ahmed Najeeb.
    Song by: Funky Music, by Dj Quads.
    Dj Quads:
    https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads
    https://twitter.com/DjQuads
    https://www.instagram.com/djquads
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusF...

    Music from Soundcloud
    Music provided by RFM: https://youtu.be/lNrAAAb2JvI
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    29 mins
  • 34. My journey to Finding Purpose, from Nigeria to Spain

    34. My journey to Finding Purpose, from Nigeria to Spain
    Apr 26 2022
    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 Mentoring Academy, a platform that provides mentoring for African women and youth.
    In this intimate dialogue, Jane shares her journey and the mindset and tools that led her to overcome every challenge.





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    Photo Credit: Ahmed Najeeb.
    Song by: Funky Music, by Dj Quads.
    Dj Quads:
    https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads
    https://twitter.com/DjQuads
    https://www.instagram.com/djquads
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusF...

    Music from Soundcloud
    Music provided by RFM: https://youtu.be/lNrAAAb2JvI
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    39 mins
  • 33. Behind the Scenes of Building an Impactful Business for Dubai's Migrants

    33. Behind the Scenes of Building an Impactful Business for Dubai's Migrants
    Apr 11 2022
    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 of blue-collar workers she met in the UAE, she decided to build a business that supports workers to find fair employment opportunities.
    She was featured on Forbes 30 under 30, Forbes 50 Startups, and is a recipient of the Duke of Edinburgh Award, and her business recently won Expo Live’s Innovation Impact Program.
    In this episode 33, Spandana talks about gaining courage to build a business to change the world, and spills the beans on the tactics and mindset that allowed her to take seemingly impossible chances. Gear up to get inspired.

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    Photo Credit: Ahmed Najeeb.
    Song by: Funky Music, by Dj Quads.
    Dj Quads:
    https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads
    https://twitter.com/DjQuads
    https://www.instagram.com/djquads
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusF...

    Music from Soundcloud
    Music provided by RFM: https://youtu.be/lNrAAAb2JvI
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    40 mins