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9 Incredible Speakers You Need to Catch at the Startups Without Borders Summit 2020

Three Continents, one summit. Joining from around the world, over 75 speakers will share key data and first-person perspectives as CEOs, strategists, coaches, and investors for entrepreneurs to understand this radically changing global landscape and dare to build a “Brave New World.” BY SALMA ARAFA AND AHMED ABUZAID The Startups Without Borders Summit always delivers top-notch speakers and…
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How to Keep Your Business Afloat: The COVID-19 Survival Guide for Refugee Businesses

Spark has just released a live, open-source guide for refugee-led startups during the pandemic. Sharing 25 years of its experience supporting refugee entrepreneurs, and authored by Ahmad Sufian Bayram, the guide offers concrete tools to grow businesses during crises.  By Muna Alram  In a rapidly changing context, how can refugee entrepreneurs launch and grow their business? Setting off to…
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Listen to These 5 Inspiring Entrepreneur Stories with TERN's 'Tea With Fatma'

For World Refugee Week, UK-based incubator for refugees TERN has launched Tea with Fatma, a series of online interviews with inspiring refugee entrepreneurs. By SWB Team To celebrate World Refugee Week 2020, which runs from 15th-21st June, The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) has partnered with the UK’s Centre for Entrepreneurs to share the stories of five inspiring refugee…
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7 Business Podcasts We Can’t Stop Listening to During Quarantine

How to transform your life during lockdown? We’ve listed our favourite business podcasts, from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Maxwell, to marketing guru Jenna Kutcher, to storytelling master Donald Miller. Whether you are looking for marketing lessons, to working on becoming the best version of yourself, these 7 business podcasts will fire you up.  By SWB Team From one of the Top…
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