Never Outsource Your Core Competence

My friend (Hasan) asked me a question yesterday “Why don’t you outsource the development of your website?”. My answer was “No, never”. But, why ?

I think many entrepreneurs in Kuwait believe they can simply outsource their website to a…

A startup is not a smaller version of large companies

People treat Startups like a large company. They use the techniques and strategies that they learned in big companies and apply them for startups. It doesn’t work that way. Even the things that I learned in the MBA don’t apply to what…

Funding rounds in startups

Internet startups are different than regular small businesses. In an internet startup you don’t have assets, you only have a bunch of people working on their laptops hoping to build a product that people will use. You don’t need to buy a machine or build a factory. You don’t need…

Interview with Maachla.com Co-Founder

Today we are starting something different. Previously we used to write about startups in Kuwait in general manner and without going into details. Today we will start something new, we will sit with the founders and chat a bit about their startups and their…

Kuwait Hackers

I was lucky enough to get an invitation to attend a special gathering of some of the most talented Hackers in Kuwait. There are two definitions for a Hacker: 1- An enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer. 2- A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data (Source: Answers.com)…

Building a Startup Ecosystem is Wayid Zain — Part#3

This is the last post in this series, and as I mentioned in the previous post, I’ll try to answer the following questions: Who should establish the incubator? And how should the incubator be structured?