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Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 3, 2015

Smart City App Hack — Dubai

Been a while since I wrote a post and I was supposed to write about more about my experience in 500Startups, but Mijbel suggested we do an event about that since I’ll be in Kuwait 2nd week of June (more about that later).

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Feb 28, 2015

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…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Sep 30, 2013

Fishfishme is Announcing a Partnership with Uber

OK, this is a pure promotional post, but I thought StartupQ8 community will be interested to know what’s going on here in Dubai. Today we are announcing a partnership with Uber (yes, Uber the on-demand black car service App, the company that…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Sep 12, 2013

A tour inside In5

My friend Mohammad MJ is visiting me in Dubai and is helping us at fishfishme.com to create some videos for our boat partners in UAE. During his stay he suggested we do a tour for our incubator in Dubai In5 and meet other startups. Below is the video:

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jul 10, 2013

Week 8 in Dubai: Meeting the Travel Expert

Last week was great, I met Mr. Abrar Ahmad. Abrar is an expert in the travel industry with more than 15yrs experience. He is currently the General Partner of Travel Capitalist Ventures, where his firm is focusing to invest on opportunities in the travel…

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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 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

May 28, 2013

Week 3 in Dubai: Video Interview With Me!!

My friend Mohammed MJ suggested to do a video interview with me instead of the regular posts. I said OK, let’s give it a try. I realized I talk a lot, but Mohammed did a great job editing the video and make it look professional. Hope you like the video…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

May 17, 2013

Week 2 in Dubai: My New Home is Called In5

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…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

May 13, 2013

1st week in Dubai: What’s your cost moving to Dubai?

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…