hi and welcome to a new video this video
is for those of you who are immigrants
in Norway and they have a dream or a
passion or a great business idea and you
just need help getting started this
video is also in Norwegian if you are
better at Norwegian than English and you
just have to follow the links in the
description I have found the most
amazing people they work in a company
called charge and what they do is that
they help immigrants in Norway to
realize and make their dreams of a
business come true and hopefully at the
end make a successful business here in
Norway why did you apply to charge I
want to keep my father dreams alive ah
my father's he owned the first
restaurant in my city in 1964 that was
my grandfather and in 2013 my father get
killed because of the war in Syria and
the restaurant being closed and I
applied for charge because I want to
keep this name alive through food
this was Daniel he has been a part of
charge and this was his reason for
applying to the program in his dream of
starting a catering business there are
many reasons why people want to start
businesses and a lots of reasons what
motivates people first of all I just
want you to listen to Martina explain
what charge is and how charge can help
you charge is an incubator an
accelerated program for first-generation
immigrants in Norway okay what the
charge do so we work with startups so
even though the name incubator and
accelerator program might be difficult
to understand it's really working with
your ideas and your business from start
to finish and to market wherever you are
in the process we will help you and we
have knowledge and the part
to really succeed we really really know
that it can be difficult to Norway
especially to understand the legal
market and the market in general so we
also have partners as cope and get they
get much to come in to facilitate this
process it is a golden ticket and it's
hard to be new in Norway and there's a
lot of things that you need to
understand if you're gonna start a
company of course language is one of
them but it's also a lot of rules and
regulations and also how to approach
cups customers and how it works in
Norway that is insight that we can give
do you have to speak Norwegian to be a
part of charge you do not need to speak
Norwegian to be a product church what is
the goal of the program the goal of the
program is to create awareness that
immigrants really do have great startup
ideas and to give everyone a possibility
to show what they can really do as you
can hear from this a charge really can
help you in a lot of areas when it comes
to starting your business in Norway
charge is a one year program and you get
help from the charge team and you get
workshops with some of the leading
companies in Norway all with the goal of
kick-starting your business and making a
successful business now we will hear
more from Daniel that we saw in the
beginning of the video and what he got
help with and how that helped launch is
successful catering business Daniel
Nakamura senior what did George help you
with everything
website and dementia accounting
developing marketing sales everything
but what kind of food is it serious come
on yeah I have six cooking certificate
from Four Seasons Hotel and the resorts
in Damascus I was
there when I was cereal my father a
dream yeah that is very nice I get
goosebumps are you happy too much isn't
it just motivating listening to Daniel
and what he has accomplished with the
help of charge and how happy is he got a
lot of help on a lot of areas in his
business and I just want to point out
that you get help with rules and
regulations in Norway accounting and an
office space and a lot more
they tell Taylor that help you need
based on what your business is so who
who do you have to be to apply for
charge you have to be an immigrant and
you have to have the personal skills of
drive that's one and you also have the
discipline and the ambitions to work
overtime so does this sound like you all
you have to do is just apply and charge
will help you with the rest everything
you need to know will be in the
description with links and go apply
apply to charge and make your dream come
true do you have an idea we have a
project and you don't know how to run it
just apply to church honestly