“How is business going?”

Almost every day I pump into someone (a friend, a fellow entrepreneur, someone I don’t even know) and they ask me “how is business going?”. It’s a very tricky question to ask for a startup founder. Things at a startup are 90% of the time going bad. I used to hide from my parents to…

Announcing The First Full-time Coding Bootcamp in Kuwait

Disclaimer: the author of this post is a co-founder of "Coded".

Earlier this week, the first coding school in Kuwait started accepting applications for its intensive full time program taking place this…

UX Designer Responsibilities (Part 1) — Intro to User Experience

This is a post by our new contributor Mahmoud Ilyan. Mahmoud is a UX designer I met when he was working with CarpoolArabia.com in Dubai. He has a good eye for UX/UI and most importantly he understands people and the…

The 500Startups Army

We just finished 500Startups accelerator program. Demo day was great, but so stressful! I probably need 10 posts to write about the program, but I’ll focus on one thing today. Something that many people neglect to mention when talking about accelerators. It’s probably the most important…

Should you move to Dubai? Think of this first

Many startup founders ask me this question “Should we move to Dubai?” I get it from startups not only in Kuwait, but all over the Middle East, especially since Dubai is now considered the business and innovation hub in the Middle East. Well the…