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Mar 28, 2013

TAMAM: The Arab Mobile Apps Meetup

Tech meetups in Amman seem to be taking new directions. In addition to big general meetups where lots of people attend, we are now seeing recently specialized smaller meetups where only 20–30 people participate. This makes it like a gathering, and almost all…

Ahmad Takatkah in VCpreneur

Feb 3, 2013

A Meeting For Entrepreneurs

Last night, I attended “A meeting for Entrepreneurs” initiated by great entrepreneurs in Jordan to simply discuss the entrepreneurship echo system and how to contribute in enhancing it. The purpose of the meeting was to suggest solutions to existing problems, not just to talk…

Ahmad Takatkah in VCpreneur

Oct 3, 2012

Amman’s Mini MBA Gathering

Tonight I was invited to attend a new session of Amman’s Mini MBA Gathering that was started by Zaid Masri and some other activists. It’s a gathering of selective entrepreneurs who meet every week at Progressive Generations Studios office. They simply suggest an interesting Case…

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Apr 12, 2012

10 Reasons Why “Jabal Amman” is the Best Place for your Startup in Jordan

Finally, there is a place in Amman that can be considered the Silicon Valley of Jordan, or even, of Arabia! But it’s not exactly a Valley this time, it’s a mountain. If you are starting a company, you…

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Jul 21, 2010

Thoughts about Crowdfunding for Startups (4/4)

This is my last post about this topic, and here I provide few crazy ideas to enable startups to crowdfund from non-accredited crowd investors and enable crowd investors to exchange stocks of those startups.

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Jul 20, 2010

Thoughts about Crowdfunding for Startups (3/4)

As far as I know, only two companies were smart in implementing the private stock market idea (but not a crowdfunding platform): SharesPost and SecondMarket via its “Private Company Stock” business unit, (which was an acquisition in Oct. 2009 of a…

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Jul 19, 2010

Thoughts about Crowdfunding for Startups (2/4)

The concept of crowdfunding was really successful for non-profits, charities, donations, and even for political campaigns. Barack Obama raised $500m in 2008 online from the crowd with an average donation of $80. Great examples of platforms that…

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Jul 18, 2010

Thoughts about Crowdfunding for Startups (1/4)

I have always been fascinated by two different but closely related ideas: the idea of crowd funding, i.e., raising capital investment from the crowd at the seed stage, and the idea of a private stock market for startup companies, i.e., enabling…

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Jul 17, 2010

Thoughts about Crowdfunding for Startups

This is an index page for the “Thoughts about Crowdfunding for Startups” Series, below you can find linked for all posts in this series.

Thoughts about Crowdfunding for Startups (1/4)