by Eric Koester
I’ve often heard the phrase “You get out of something what you put into it.” And in most cases, that is true — if you put in some time, some energy and some effort you’ll get an equal amount back out of it. With Startup Weekend, that phrase also applies — it’s just that you’ll get 5 times more out versus what you put into it.
I’ve had the opportunity to attend a half dozen StartupWeekends. Some weekends have been a fun chance to meet people; some weekends have been a chance to build something cool; some weekends have been the opportunity to challenge myself to learn something new; and some weekends have left me with more to think about than at the start of the weekend. But in each case, I consistently got much more out of the weekend than I put into it.
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by Ryan Murray
Every startup is looking to get their business idea to market as fast as possible. Startup weekends are a great way to push that goal to limit. But with the objective of getting an application actually working in those 54 weekend hours, developers in particular have a hard task in front of them. However, the minimal infrastructure needed for the weekend is nothing compared to what is need to manage and maintain a working app over the long haul. And the goal of all the startup weekend teams will be to have their app running long after the weekend is over!
Cloud platforms offer a particularly enticing solution to startups in this regard. Provisioning time and configuration are reduced dramatically. And many cloud services are free for small apps that don’t consume a lot of resources. Here’s a quick review of some cloud providers that can help bootstrap your YallaStartupWeekend apps fast.
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By Amad Almsaodi
Surprisingly, the 2nd day of the MENA ICT Forum was as exciting as the 1st day, if not more engaging and informative. The day started with a Social Media discussion, and Alexander McNabb from Spot On PR declared Print and traditional media agencies dead. This statement kicked off a heated discussion between the panelists and some of the audience who tried to defend TV advertising and traditional media. Alexander delivered a storm of proofs that back his statement, and his KO punch was highlighting the increasing number of newspapers going bankrupt globally and regionally. The verdict is traditional media is going south if they do not embrace the new media.
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By Amad Almsaodi
Today was the first day of the MENA ICT Forum that was held in Amman, Jordan. The MENA ICT Forum is an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Information and Communications Technology Enabled Services (ICTES) industry event for the MENA region, that is held in Jordan on a bi-annual basis.
Todays panel discussions included a set of diverse topics ranging from the importance of Cloud computing to promoting Entrepreneurship in the region. Each panel included a mix of global and regional experts. Panel discussions were followed by interesting questions by the audience and sometimes the audience were asked to vote. One of the voting questions was: What’s the Arab worlds greatest limitation in ICT? The audience agreed that the greatest limitation is the mind set; however, some of the panelists disagreed by pointing to the lack of management expertise as the true limitation.
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هذا المقال تابع لسلسلة من المقالات المستمرة عن الريادة. إذا كنت ترغب في المساهمة الرجاء إرسال رسالة إلكترونية إلى exec@yallastartup.org
by Mussie Shore
Mojo
Pronunciation: \ˈmō-(ˌ)jō\
Etymology: probably of African origin; akin to Fulani
moco'o medicine man
Definition: a magic spell, hex, or charm;
broadly :magical power
Teams with mojo launch things continuously, always, we never stop launching things. This guide, offers ten principles , which when practiced by everyone, on balance, preserves and extends a team’s mojo.
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Advice by serial Entrepreneur Brian Balfour
Know Why You Are Raising
Its great to have grand dreams of being the next GroupOn, Zynga, or , but keep those dreams in check while raising your first capital. First time entrepreneurs are commonly unrealistic about three things. One, the fact that your idea is a good fit for Angel/VC money in the first place. Two, the amount of funding you need and the valuation you are asking for. Read the rest of this entry »
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هذا المقال تابع لسلسلة من المقالات المستمرة عن الريادة. إذا كنت ترغب في المساهمة الرجاء إرسال رسالة إلكترونية إلى exec@yallastartup.org
Now that I’m between startups, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to work on next. I like thinking in frameworks, which makes it easier to evaluate new opportunities and create my own theses around where technology and business is heading. My previous analysis on the Product vs Distribution Framework focused on the core traits a company needs to ultimately succeed. This post looks instead at the macro trends of the Internet itself.
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هذا المقال تابع لسلسلة من المقالات المستمرة عن الريادة. إذا كنت ترغب في المساهمة الرجاء إرسال رسالة إلكترونية إلى exec@yallastartup.org
بقلم عماد المسعودي
صفحات كتاب محركو الاقتصاد اليمني الذي يتناول قصص نجاح أهم 100 رجل أعمال يمني، ذكرتني ببحث قمت به قبل عدة أشهر يتعلق بتحديد شخصيات ريادية شابة في الوطن العربي، فالتشابه بين قصة رجال الأعمال اليمنيين لا تختلف كثيراً عن قصة بقية رجال الأعمال الناجحين في بقية الدول العربية. هناك نسق واضح جداً، إليكم كيف تبدأ القصة:
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هذا المقال تابع لسلسلة من المقالات المستمرة عن الريادة. إذا كنت ترغب في المساهمة الرجاء إرسال رسالة إلكترونية إلى exec@yallastartup.org
Few weeks ago, I was running like a crazy from an interview to another in order to finish the first part of my field work for my PHD research about Syrian musalsalat.
An (Arab) friend of mine just looked at me as if I was totally weird and told me: “why are you doing all these crazy efforts?! You read Arabic, just translate those (pointing at few articles and couple of books dealing with drama) into English and khalas, it’s done!”.
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Thanks for the opportunity to answer your questions and support YallaStartup! Here’s my answers and best to all of you!
How do you prepare for a new feature in Blogger, like what are the steps you take as a PM to get a feature into blogger from the point where you listen to user’s feedback until the engineer works on it and then released to new users. How long is that cycle on average ?
Inspiration for new features is everywhere. It comes from our users, from other cool products, from our day to day problems. Inspiration also happens all the time. So the hard thing is deciding which idea is worth investing in, which idea will produce the biggest impact in your product.
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