Creative Commons is finally coming to Lebanon and we are super excited about it. Joi Ito and Larry Lessig one of the two most prominent names in the history of the internet will be speaking live at AUB on the 25th! Make sure you don’t miss this one in a life time oppotunity to mingle with the Internet Wizards! On the same night there will be a very fun Creative Commons Salon party in Karaj Beirut.
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5 reasons to attend YallaStartup Weekend
1. Network, meet potential co-founders and investors
A huge challenge to most entrepreneurs is finding other like-minded people that share the same passions, and compliment their skill-sets. At YallaStartup weekend you’ll get the chance to spend 54 hours surrounded by people that eat their morning bowls of cereal thinking “startup”, and fall asleep thinking how to create the next big thing. In fact, 85% of all previous StartupWeekend participants still kept in touch with someone they met at the event!
2. Build awesome companies
Go from idea to launch. You have 54 hours to figure out everything from the mission, your target market, your competitors and your go-to market strategies. You will also have to give a full presentation of a working prototype and validation of concept to your peers. Over 36% of the Startup Weekend Startups are still active. Over 10% of companies go on to produce revenue or get seed funding, but every time people leave with more experience, insight, knowledge, friends, and resources than they came with.
3. Unlimited Learning Potential
Learn the best practices of UX or how to build a viral marketing strategy and get live feedback on your ideas. Rather than just theorizing, put your brain and hands to work and create, iterate, and then learn how to sell your idea. As much as ideas are important execution is what makes or breaks them. Take this opportunity to develop, and present in front of peers and experts. Not only is it a stage for you to practice on, but you will interact with some of the community’s best and brightest (including yourself!) and learn from each others.
4. Awesome PR
YallaStatup media partners include ReadWriteWeb, The NextWeb Middle East, Knowledge@Wharton, StartupArabia, Hibr, iTech Entrepreneurs, Executive Magazine, Naharnet and more … This is your chance to be featured on the most respected and read news sources, both regionally and world-wide.
5. Win great prizes and most importantly HAVE FUN
Startup Weekend has been represented in 100 cities and 23 countries, has had over 15,000 entrepreneurs in just 3 years and has launched over 560 new ventures! YallaStartup has brought Startup Weekend to the Middle East for the first time ever. Now is your chance to be part of this entrepreneurial network and to kick-start your company or idea.
As Wayne Gretzky put it, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take , so don’t miss this one, Yalla come and Startup!
Click here to sign up if you haven’t already.
First YallaStartup Weekend! Spend a weekend like no other and build something awesome!
Many great companies started as a weekend project and we want you to be next! If you are passionate about building great things and are up for a fun intense weekend then YallaStartup Weekend is for you.
StartupWeekend is a famous event that has taken place in 54 cities in the US and around the world and we are bringing it to Beirut on November 12, 13 and 14 at Berytech. The weekend is a hands-on event that encourages out of the box creative thinking and startup creation. The idea is very simple, you join us on the first day of the weekend with a group of highly motivated developers, product, marketing, graphic and business guys and girls together, you team up, decide on an idea, code and deliver a prototype on Sunday. During the weekend, VCs and experts will be spending walking around the venue and giving some short talks in the hope of scouting the next big thing! Winning teams will receive prizes and recognition on YallaStartup and our press partners.
YallaStartup Mafia ganging up at MENA ICT Forum
101010: That’s not binary for “Hello” that’s the date the YallaStartup team will be in Jordan taking part in the MENA ICT Forum!
We are excited that YallaStartup is viewed as a regional thought leader at the event. YallaStartup co-founder, Habib Haddad, will be speaking at the event on two panels, the MENA Ecosystem and Addressing the Arabic Content Crisis. He will be discussing the realities as they appear on the ground and our unique approach to addressing them.
If you happen to be at MENA ICT Forum, please pass by, give us a shout out and cheer us along. If you are not around, feel free to send us your ideas and thoughts by commenting below, tweeting, watweting, emailing, texting, buzzing, facebooking, foursquaring or even ESPing!
We’ll be likely organizing a YallaStartup mafia hangout and will be welcoming all you God Fathers 
. Please stay tuned and see you soon!
YallaStartup to mentor ArabNet Startups!
As a lot of you know by now there is one hot event coming our way, and YallaStartup is a proud supporter ! ArabNet is the first international conference for the Arab web industry and will take place in Beirut on the 25th and 26th of March. It will bring together leaders from across the MENA, Europe and Silicon Valley to discuss cutting-edge trends and emerging opportunities.
The conference will also feature some very cool ideas and startups through pitch and demo sessions. We are happy to announce that YallaStartup will be offer mentorship for selected top startups/ideas. This means we will assign mentors from our pool of experts to closely work and help the startups with their needs.
We hope by doing this that we can help the startups with technical expertise, marketing, strategy and even linking them with the right investors. We hope this would help them achieve their real potential, so what are you waiting for, YallaStartup!
If you would like to also join our pool of mentors please email us at mentors@yallastartup.org