Mimix just won the final face off against Mindle from Brazil and became the ultimate champion of Global Startup Battle. Congratulations to Mimix and to all YallaStartup’ers you showed to the whole world that we have the Power of Yalla!
All of us at Startup Weekend extend a huge round of applause to the entire MIMIX team for a job well done! Congratulations to Pierre Daher, Jessica Abou Haydar, Pascale Baaklini, Akram Barakat, and founder Mahmoud Darawaheh. As the Ultimate Champion, the MIMIX team wins a website by Clover and a customized video by SwitchMarketing! These prizes, in addition to those the team received as Week 1 winners, will help catapult MIMIX to the next level of entrepreneurial success.
MIMIX is a web and mobile app which builds on speech recognition and 3D modeling technologies to translate speech into sign language in real-time. The team and their startup have huge potential and we are certain that the winners of Global Startup Battle will have many more successes in their future.
As we promised a few weeks ago we are going to be chartering free “Geeks on a Bus” rides from Amman and Damascus to YallaStartup Weekend in Lebanon. Many thanks to our friends at Meydan for generously sponsoring the bus from Jordan!
Are you ready to compete against startups from San Francisco, Boston, Sao Palo… Startup Weekend just announced the first “Global Startup Battle,” to challenge and inspire entrepreneurs from around the world during Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Global Startup Battle will tie teams from over twenty StartupWeekend events taking place during Global Entrepreneurship Week (November 12-21) in cities around the world from San Francisco to Sao Paulo, from Boston to Beirut and beyond. The winning team from each event will have 24 hours to create a 90-second video pitch that highlights their freshly-launched product or service. Viewers from around the world will then be invited to view the video pitches and vote for their favorite concept. The winners will take home an assortment of cash and prizes from partners and one-on-one time with a celebrity venture capitalist or angel investor.
We are only a few weeks away from StartupWeekend and are super excited for the potential. So far more than 150 attendees are going to show up to create more than 40 projects and startups! It’s going to be an awesome and fun weekend and we can’t wait to see the community getting together for an all action event!
There is one thing issue that is still bugging us though … The majority of the attendees currently registered are men! Women Startup enthusiasts, designers, developers, entrepreneurs where are you? We need you and your creative minds at our YallaStartup Weekend event!
Yes, we think the next Bill Gates, Sergey Brin or Steve Jobs might be at the weekend but what about the next Carol Bartz (Yahoo), the next Meg Whitman (eBay), Marissa Mayer (Google), Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) or Catherina Fake (Flickr).
To help spur your interest, we want to offer 15 free passes to Women for YallaStartup Weekend. Just drop us a quick comment below or send us an email and you are in! Yes, it’s that easy!
Thanks to our friends at Seeqnce for initiating the lead on this last week!
We will give out 5 free tickets for the best 5 comments.
More than 100 people have registered from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Qatar, Egypt and more so what are you waiting for, come on join them and create awesome products! YallaStartup Weekeend!
Are you Inspired? Think you are up for it? Come on get your tickets today to StartupWeekend Lebanon and join us for a fun exciting weekend! http://www.yallastartup.org/startupweekend/ – Register before September 30 and get $25 off.
AllWorld has already announced the Saudi Fast 100 and the Lebanon Fast 25 winners, next on the list is Jordan! We encourage everyone to apply today to the Jordan|25, and read more about Arabia 500. Private companies from any industry, that are growing quickly, are invited to apply. Jordan 25|100 winners automatically qualify for the Arabia 500, becoming part of a global network of AllWorld entrepreneurs.
“Being a Saudi Fast 100 winner inspired our team. Our staff sees that their hard work has paid off, our customers are more confident that they are putting their needs in the right hands and our shareholders are proud to be #1.” - 2009 Saudi Fast Growth 100 #1 company – Secutronic’s co-founders, Mr. Jawad Anwar Ali and Mr. Ihab El Samannoudi
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Why do more than half of all start-ups fail? Because they bungle their marketing, according to Leonard Lodish, a professor of marketing at Wharton, and co-author of two books, Entrepreneurial Marketing andMarketing That Works. “The dogs won’t eat the dog food is the way venture capitalists describe it,” Lodish says. The key lies in how a marketing plan is crafted. In this installment of the podcast series for the Wharton-CERT Business Plan Competition, Lodish explains that marketing plans must take into account three critical strategic and tactical factors: positioning, targeting and pricing.
The following are edited extracts of the conversation.
