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Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

May 31, 2013

Great Interview with Ibrahim Manna

This is for sure the best interview I saw with a startup co-founder in the Middle East. Ibrahim is an entrepreneur that built a previous delivery startup that failed and in the video he is explaining why this happened and how can you avoid it in the future. Also he…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 27, 2013

Saudi in Silicon Valley

These days we are (at fishfishme) super busy with business and our preparation to raise our second round of funding. I always try to find the time to write a post and then found out that its 12AM and I’m super tired to do anything. So apologize for not posting stuff lately.

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 22, 2013

Is Venture Capital The Way To Go?

The folks at FindTheBest.com wrote us the following guest post in response to Aziz’s latest post on venture capital. FindTheBest is unbiased, data-driven search engine that helps people make quick and informed decisions. Below, they offer their take on the venture…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 16, 2013

Week 5 in Dubai: Interviewing startups and my interview with Skynews

Last week I was busy meeting lots of people. Most of them are startups and entrepreneurs based in Dubai. In this video I interviewed three startups:

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 29, 2013

How did Wamda.com found about me? The Power of comments

I wrote a blog post at wamda and I’m not sure if you guys read it or not. In this post I explain my story behind the scene and how blog posts kind of changed my life. I can’t copy paste the full post so below is an introduction and…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 22, 2013

Must watch video: The creation of Danbits.com

Steve Blank recently tweeted a link to Soren Therkelsen’s video “The creation of Danbits.com”. It offers great insight into how to build, test and validate a startup idea using lean. You can find the video here.

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 5, 2013

Week 4 in Dubai: Not in Dubai, but in our office in Malaga, Spain

I took my friend Mohammad and my sister advice to start video recording my life instead of just posting a written posts. So I did, but I think I really need help with recording and editing the videos. Anyway I did my…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 16, 2013

Odds and ends: Recent updates at StartupQ8

I wanted to share a quick post this morning to update you on some upcoming events and interesting information:

The “June” StartupQ8 Event will occur in July. Many of the event organizers will be at the ArabNet Digital Summit 2013…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 6, 2013

What Do VCs Offer You?

As Venture Capitalists “VCs” screen through potential startups to invest in, sitting behind a financial model and a suit sometimes sends the wrong signal to entrepreneurs on how much value-add can be extracted from VCs. I’m sure there are plenty of investors that tag-along with the lead…

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