Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Trust & integrity in business ..
Recently, I got disappointed with a few individuals and organizations who did what would normal people call preaching trust, but I’m really wondering what’s that called in the entrepreneurship sphere. Don’t we speak day and night about the positive energy entrepreneurship brings to society and that everyone and anyone involved with such positive energy activities…
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Events I attended during 2010
Facebook/Connect Ads Partnership GeekFest 1.0 AUC TTO Inauguration Event Ideavelopers – The Web Angels CoE2010 – Celebration of Entrepreneurship Ideavelopers – Mobile What’s Next? Google Days 2 & 3
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Job titles for startups; Manager, Executive or Officer
While expanding your business, getting more people aboard to be in charge of specific tasks, the question pops up. What should be their job title. Different companies choose different job titles to describe the same thing, here is my 2 cents about that. If I consider when someone to be in charge of marketing, business…
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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 know exist before. Since then I had been concentrating on Egypreneur and finding ways to…
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After #CoE2010 I feel inspired, empowered and connected
Back from the stunning event in Dubai by Abraaj Capital. Oh, you should know it by now it’s The Celebration of Entrepreneurship and yes, it was more of a celebration than a conference, I had awesome time and met awesome people including being mentored for a total of 60 minutes by Mr. Arif Naqvi and…
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After #CoE2010 I feel inspired, empowered and connected
Back from the stunning event in Dubai by Abraaj Capital. Oh, you should know it by now it’s The Celebration of Entrepreneurship and yes, it was more of a celebration than a conference, I had awesome time and met awesome people including being mentored for a total of 60 minutes by Mr. Arif Naqvi and…
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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 workplaces in the region. I had been using the Hub Cairo and discussing its vision,…
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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 Technology (IAMOT) www.iamot.org Co-Chair IAMOT 2011 Conference, April, 10-14, 2011 Miami Beach, Florida, USA Fellow…
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Coaching at its best ..
I officially wish I had such a coach. This is the favorite thing I have on this earth and now I’m giving it to you, it’s gonna be like an angel on your shoulder. If you ever feel you’ll go down, this little angel is gonna whisper in your ears: GET UP YOU SON of…
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Do not wait ..
FreeRangeLife on Flickr قد حان الأوان .لا تعلق بناء حياتك على أمنية يلدها الغيب فإن هذا الإرجاء لن يعود عليك بخير . الحاضر القريب الماثل بين يديك و نفسك هذه التي بين جنبيك ، و الظروف الباسمة أو الكالحة التي تلتف حواليك ، هي وحدها الدعائم التي يتمخض عنها مستقبلك ، فلا مكان لإبطاء أو…
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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 the regulation of the Nilex I needed 25 to incorporate based on the model we had…
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Just thought to remind you: no one cares about you!
You might already know, but let me remind you: Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi6XV8yBFoU They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. they don’t want well informed, well educated people; that’s completely against their interest.
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Orofar “Aliens Attack” Flash Game
Customized yet another flash game called “Aliens” for Orofar. Contracted by: Lane-8.
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Orofar “Space Invaders” Flash Game
Customized a famous game called Space Invaders for Orofar – The game is an SWF format that could be used on the web. Contracted by: Lane-8.
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HiWave Website Redesign
Redesigned HiWave’s website – a leading event design company in Egypt – using WordPress and the 3D Flash Slider GU3ER. Contracted by: Lane-8.
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Unilever – Website with advanced functionality
Worked on a website for a Unilever Egypt department, the website features include; Advanced File Management, Multiple Level User Authentication and Advanced JQuery User Interface too. Contracted by: Lane-8.
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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 speech 3) Reaching Out 1 23.06.2009 Get to the point 4) Reaching Out 2 21.07.2009 How to say it 5) Reaching…
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Name of God Al-Muhaymen
Salam Everyone, Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqLShfyrzc I’m starting or restarting to listen to an amazing series that helped me much in phases of my life, I wanted to make that restart long time ago, but things just worked out to b starting it just now. The name of God I listened to this morning as…
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#Flotilla so we should be sad?
Hello Everyone, Watch on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFEBbDkyrqQ This is a collection of ideas I posted on Twitter concerning the Israeli attack on the aid ship heading towards Gaza in international water, how should we conceive it and should something like that make us sad or depressed as some people seem to be getting? Let’s be positive, Israel…
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Being Judgmental?
Hello Everyone, Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY Listen to PodCast: [podcast]http://abdo.me/podcasts/podcast2.mp3[/podcast] This is from an angle an awesome reminder for judgmental people – I might be included, who knows!- that by touching the person and accepting them as they’re and then trying to notify them of what’s wrong and help them change is the only way to…
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First PodCast ..
First PodCast ..
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Searching for an old love
I received the following messages from a German lady via a German networking site. Messages say it all. Sorry for the poor English, she’s not a native speaker and I didn’t want to modify the messages and just post as is .. M. S. wrote 29.12.2009: greetings from munich and i have a very important…
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Practicing Parkour with EgyFlow
Hey Everyone, View on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1X4LicEU4 Last march, I started practicing Parkour with EgyFlow; an awesome Parkour team I first knew about via its facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=101307227731 despite the fact that I don’t have much time to invest weekly on Parkour, I’m maintaining a minimum of a session per week and enjoying it so far.…
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