Top stories published by StartupQ8 in July of 2012

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Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 16, 2012

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…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 18, 2012

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…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 23, 2012

Dishdasha Express#1

Dishdasha Express is one of my favorite startups in Kuwait. I love the idea and I think it has a huge potential. “Dishdasha express is a Kuwaiti established company that was co-founded in 2010 by four cousins who wanted to put new high standards in tailoring the traditional middle-eastern…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 30, 2012

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?

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 16, 2012

Is your company a Scalable Startup or a Small Business??

Is your company a small business or a scalable startup??
Scalable Startups: are companies with founders that have a vision to become big and world class company. Their goal is not just to make enough money to feed their family, no…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 16, 2012

Should you do an MBA or start your own business??

I did my MBA in Hong Kong at HKUST (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). The school is amazing and currently ranked#10 worldwide by the Financial Times. Moreover, I learned many things in many fields and I built a great network…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 24, 2012

Building a Startup Ecosystem in Q8

I mentioned in a previous post that money is not the main reason for not having a startup activity here in Kuwait. The problem is with not having a healthy environment to establish a startup, in other words we don’t have a startup ecosystem.

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 31, 2012

Yabila!

Yabila is a Kuwaiti Startup that provides consumers with the daily discounts, promotions, and deals in their country. Yabila not only covers Kuwait, but also Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now also available in the App store.

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 18, 2012

Best Blogs on Hi-tech, Startups and Entrepreneurship — Part 2

Continuing the list of the top 10 blogs below:

5- NirandFar: Nir and Far is a blog about Business, Behavior, and the Brain. This blog is broadly about “Behavior Engineering”, a topic at the…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 21, 2012

Burn Your Business Plan

Last year my team and I won the best written business plan in Asia during the Asia Venture Challenge in Thailand.

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