Gaza Sky Geeks startup mentoring PLUS Maps and making

New interviews with Elizabeth Shassere and Laura Bennett about the Gaza Sky Geeks programme and with craftsman Richard Osborne, of From the Workshop.

Elizabeth Shassere and Laura Bennett will be traveling to Gaza in September, to mentor startup teams competing for a place on the Gaza Sky Geeks accelerator. Google for Entrepreneurs founded Gaza Sky Geeks in 2011 to build a startup movement in a frontier market with strong potential.

Elizabeth talks about the entrepreneurs in Gaza (she participated in 2015’s Gaza Sky Geeks) and some of the challenges they face. Laura explains why she and Elizabeth are volunteering in support of the programme and the value that volunteers can bring to an organisation such as Gaza Sky Geeks – and discusses some of her earlier experiences running a social enterprise in Peru.

Richard creates beautiful objects – take a look at his map-based coffee tables on his website – and is using Kickstarter to raise awareness of his new project, a beautifully crafted box with an engraved map of the buyer’s chosen place on the front.  He also runs a business designing and installing climbing walls for children.

Timings:

• 0 – 3:30 introduction and updates
• 3:30 – 20:23 Richard Osborne
• 20:23 – 45:05 Elizabeth Shassere and Laura Bennett
• 45:05 wrapping up

This is episode #125 of Business Live, first broadcast on Sheffield Live FM Radio on Friday 12 August 2016.