FT World Tech Founders

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Financial Times World Tech Founders is a new series on entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Founders talk about the rewards and challenges of starting up a business in countries such as Egypt, Tanzania and China.

Website: https://www.ft.com/world-tech-founders
Description: Financial Times World Tech Founders is a new series on entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Founders talk about the rewards and challenges of starting up a business in countries such as Egypt, Tanzania and China.
Language: 🇬🇧 English
last modified: 2020-02-23 23:53
last episode published: 2018-11-28 11:57
publication frequency: 34.58 days
Contributors: Financial Times; Author; Audio; Owner
Explicit: false
Number of Episodes: 23
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Categories: Business News Technology Business

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Date	Title & Description	Contributors
2018-11-28	‘When I started, no one knew what a start-up was’ Aktau, on the Caspian Sea, is far from being a tech hub. Yet one entrepreneur from Kazakhstan is changing that
2018-10-29	‘Africa should not copy and paste Silicon Valley’ Ghanaian tech entrepreneur Ethel Cofie on the advantages of simple and cheap innovation
2018-09-28	What is it like running a ride hailing app in worn-torn Syria? A talent pool of women programmers has helped two entrepreneurs solve the tricky problem of finding a taxi to take civilians between Syria and Lebanon
2018-08-28	'I was rejected 167 times' Communist party member and fintech founder Xu Zewei on the ups and downs of riding China’s start-up boom
2018-07-27	Bulgaria reverses the IT brain drain Bulgaria was once a centre for production of IT hardware for Soviet bloc countries. Now, as the tech hub of the Balkans, salaries are rising and more developers who moved away to earn better wages are returning home
2018-06-28	“Starting a business young is a bonus” says Kenyan tech pioneer Dorcas Muthoni on the opportunities in Silicon Savannah and how to avoid corruption
2018-05-30	Ukrainian 3D-printed house takes on US market Conflict with Russia has not stopped a new crop of entrepreneurs finding funding, including Maxim Gerbut, the creator of the ultimate smart house
2018-04-26	The woman turning Emiratis into entrepreneurs Najla Al Midfa is teaching young people in the United Arab Emirates how to start and run their own businesses
2018-03-27	Paytm challenges Amazon and Flipkart A shy schoolboy internet entrepreneur, hiding in the college computer centre, Vijay Shekhar Sharma went on to build a mobile payments company with more than 200m users. He says he never wanted to build Cisco, he says always wanted to build an Apple
2018-02-28	Ukrainian migrants rev up Poland’s tech scene Poland has seen a surge in Ukrainian immigrant workers since fighting started in Ukraine in 2014. Among them are an increasing number of highly skilled migrants who are entering Poland’s technology industry. One of the start-up success stories is CallP...