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Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Sep 28, 2015

Customer Acquisition For The Newbie Entrepreneur

Customer Acquisition and Startup Failures

This is a post for newbie startup founders, and fresh entrepreneurs willing to land their very first set of customers. Often startups fail because of…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Aug 17, 2015

Announcing Coffee Meetup + Basics of Digital Marketing Talk

This Wednesday, the StartupQ8 Coffee Club Meetup will take place at The VIVA Coded Academy, Kuwait’s first coding school. The meetup is a chance for local entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts to meet, network, share ideas and…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Oct 20, 2014

“Square” and What Makes a Startup Investible

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If you are unfamiliar with the world of Venture Capital and startup financing, the tech news headlines you read a couple of weeks ago (on October 5 specifically) would have left you scratching your head in…

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 29, 2014

Customer Feedback is Oxygen

The customer might not always be right, but the customer is always worth listening to.

Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram, attributes the success of the photo sharing application to one simple factor: listening to customer feedback.

Abdullah Alshalabi in StartupQ8

Jun 2, 2014

The Power of Small Changes: From Bankruptcy to $10 Billion

For a startup, a small change could potentially lead to gigantic results.

There’s a well-known but often untold story about Airbnb, the worldwide platform for renting lodges and residential space. In…