Journal

Celebration of Entrepreneurship – personal thoughts

It had been more a month now since I attended the Celebration of Entrepreneurship and I can say that the couple of days really charged me with a good amount of energy and opened my vision to opportunities I didn’t [...]

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#coE2010 Question to Mr. Arif about supporting a network of shared workplaces in the region

Watch on TwitVid: http://www.twitvid.com/QPYBX As my entry in the contest to win a trip to  Celebration of Entrepreneurship conference in Dubai, I posted the following video asking Mr. Arif Naqvi CEO of Abraaj Capital about supporting a network of shared [...]

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Successful Bootstrapping – Speech at Nile University

I was invited by Dr. Yasser Hosni of Nile University to give a speech about successful bootstrapping in Egypt at Nile University. An excerpt of the presentation is available below. Yasser Hosni, Ph.D., PE. President, Int. Assoc for Mgt. of [...]

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Raising funds and incorporating ..

Hello Everyone, During July had been my first experience directly communicating with investors to raise funds for my business, I had been having my friend Karim from Easy-up do it for me and we already got 6 investors interested but per [...]

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ToastMasters Competent Communicator Award

I recently received the competent communicator award from ToastMasters International after finishing the first communication track CC which is a set of 10 speeches each focusing on a specific skills to develop: 1) Ice breaker                                    07.04.2009           breaks the Ice 2) The development way                    19.05.2009           organize your [...]

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Egyptian Professionals, having a problem?

Just like every professional in Egypt – especially web professionals – I’m suffering from the unavailability or exaggerated cost of some services, which for me have to do with human rights before having access to professional services.

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Tweeting a work task for 12 hours

Hey Everyone, I just finished a work task for Lane-8 Creative Digital Marketing working on a web application for Unilever Egypt – the funny thing is that I shared the progress with some photos of my whiteboard and some ideas [...]

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Reaching Out (2) – Starting an Online Business

Hi All, This speech had been delivered by myself July, 21, at Cairo ToastMasters club.It was my 4th speech at the competent communicator track where my objective was “How To Say It” so while preparing this speech my main emphasis [...]

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Reaching Out – Online Networking

Hi Everyone, This is a speech I delivered at Cairo ToastMasters club June, 23. The speech title had been “reaching out” and it was my 3rd speech at the competent communicator track, where the speech’s objective is “get to the [...]

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