Ice Academy: How early preparation yields better entrepreneurial and professional success Refugees are often more likely to start new businesses but they face more barriers to success than the average entrepreneur. It’s not a question of talent or potential....
Seizing the opportunity of refugee entrepreneurship What does it take to be an entrepreneur in 2020? Resilience, creativity, adaptability and a willingness to stick with it when the going gets tough. Coincidentally, these are also the skills that refugees naturally...
For PLACE, 2019 was a year that transformed the insights of an experiment into the foundation of something that can spark a systems-level change. The newcomers that trusted PLACE with their growth were an essential part of this transformation. Here is a snapshot of...
What happens when new innovators take over old spaces The concept of space is inherent to innovation. There is a reason you think differently from one space to another – spaces have intentions, they have outputs. When launching PLACE in 2016, the question of...
Through the eyes of Farid 12 missed calls. 24 messages on WhatsApp. 31 unread emails. And it’s only 9:30 am. A year ago, this hectic schedule would all seem like a dream, and maybe a bit overwhelming. Yet in little under a year’s time this life went from a far off...
