Scale is important for startups to put them on the radar of strategic acquirers, which are a more likely route to an exit in MENA than listing on public markets.
Two weeks ago I was in talks with a person (that I greatly appreciate) to help them out with their new fund. They wanted to invest in startups and my job was as an advisor in the fund. While I really liked the initial idea and the people behind it…
Hamad Mufleh has an interesting (as always) take on the Talabat acquisition and where it can lead us. The original post can be found here, but if you’re too lazy just read on.
In late 2010 just after we had completed the exit of 6alabat.com, I took some time off to go back to school and pursue my MBA degree. I wanted to expand my thinking horizon beyond my career objectives, I wanted to learn more about the fundamental gaps we had in our local…
As I wrote in an earlier post about Monday’s StartupQ8 Monthly Event, the phrase “multi-sided platforms” (or MSP’s) might sound dense and technical. However, some of the most successful ventures to come out of Silicon…
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…
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…
I’m writing this post sitting in the plane to Dubai. Many asked me why I’m leaving Kuwait? And why I had gave up that easily on startupQ8? And whats going to happen to StartupQ8?
One of our more active community members, Burhan Khalid, is speaking about payment gateways at the upcoming StartupQ8 Monthly Event on April 22nd. He will is the Electronic Channels Development Manager at one of the local banks…
I received this short video that explains the funding stages of a startup. I’ve wrote about this topic before (Funding rounds in startups), that was actually my 4th or 5th post in this blog (now we have over a 100 posts). I found this topic very important because many…
