One of our more active community members, Burhan Khalid, is speaking about payment gateways at the upcoming StartupQ8 Monthly Event on April 22nd. He will is the Electronic Channels Development Manager at one of the local banks…

I just came back from the StartupQ8 event and it was great as usual. One of our early readers and early supporters (MyGreenSofa) was asking me about the reason why we are focusing more on Tech startups and neglecting other type of businesses such as restaurants and…

Ok so we made the decision to move our startup (fishfishme) to Dubai. First things need to get done is logistics. If you know me well then you’ll know that I don’t care much of how good my apartment, car or office looks like. I just want…

As I promised in my 1st post about Dubai, I’ll talk in this post about the incubator that we were lucky enough to get accepted in, its called In5 (part of Dubai Internet City). In5 is an incubator that provides you with office space, mentorship, company…

We told you about our involvement with the ArabNet Digital Summit in Dubai in an earlier blog post. To summarize:

• One lucky member of our community will win a free ticket to attend the summit.

As I wrote in an earlier post about Monday’s StartupQ8 Monthly Event, the phrase “multi-sided platforms” (or MSP’s) might sound dense and technical. However, some of the most successful ventures to come out of Silicon…