“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…

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…

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…

Why you need a cofounder (a personal story)

I’d like to share a personal story about how it took me 3 years to start Sirdab Lab.

While doing my MBA in San Francisco, I got a chance to work closely with startups in an amazing accelerator program. I fell in love with the…

Most events are a waste of time!

As you might know, I’m now living in Dubai and there are tons of events for startups every week and almost in a daily basis. To be honest most of the events are a waste of time. Focus in building your business better than you go to events. The worst events (aka…