We usually hear the word ecosystem in every conference about entrepreneurship as the key to supporting and evolving entrepreneurship in every society. Entrepreneurship Ecosystem is the set of entities that’s supporting, influencing or engaged in a form of interaction with entrepreneurs. (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship_ecosystem) As we’re operating as a platform for supporting entrepreneurs, we started during [...]
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Welcome to Egypreneur Crew Portal. Egypreneur is a platform supporting grassroots entrepreneurs in Egypt. This portal is intended to reflect the inner work of Egypreneur team members (Crew) and their advisors, their entrepreneurial thoughts, activities and aspirations, beside official Egypreneur announcements of strategies we’re developing, partnerships we’re establishing, projects we’re launching and events we’re involved with.
With the new era Egypt is entering, we believe that entrepreneurship is the most important element in the economic, social and civilizational development of Egypt and the region, with great organizations, events and initiatives starting to support entrepreneurs in Egypt, still the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt is lacking an organized structure, practical approach to encourage, support and sustain entrepreneurs’ work.
Believing that grassroots entrepreneurs themselves are the best candidate for generating a grassroots movement and influence the establishment of this support system, Egypreneur Crew came to life from entrepreneurs who experienced the ecosystem in Egypt closely and involved with entrepreneurial activities all around Egypt to build and sustain an organization that will brand, network, support and encourage entrepreneurs in Egypt.
How Can Egypreneur Help You?
If you’re an entrepreneur, we can help you by:
- Connecting you with organizations that offer services to entrepreneurs
- Promoting your idea, project or initiative
- Helping you network with other entrepreneurs
- Providing you with trainings that can help boost your business
How Can You Help?
- Offer educational programs, services or special offers to Egypreneur community
- Sponsor Egypreneur activities
- Volunteer with us
- Spread the word
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crew
Egypreneur Crew is composed of 5 functions for Content, Community, Marketing, Public Relations and Fundraising and 5 centers for Media, Information, Support, Events and Tech. Each function/center is lead with someone with solid experience and proven track-record leading a team of eager, smart executives who energetically get stuff done!
Abdelrahman Magdy
Founder & CEO
Abdo is an Entrepreneur, Founder and MD of Al-Adham Co. and involved with running several entrepreneurial activities, started Egypreneur 2008, sustained it, developed its strategies, recruited the crew and currently leading its strategic and executive work!
Ibrahim Farag
Chief Financial Officer
Ibrahim is a 12 years experienced investment banker holding an MBA in finance with experience in several senior finance and corporate relations positions, Ibrahim is leading Egypreneur’s financial assessment, tracking and decision-making.
Ahmed Rabieh
Chief Technology Officer
Ahmed is an Entrepreneur, Founder of KampME & Mobipreneur. Author and trainer. Working as an Rich Internet Apps Specialist at ITWorx and leading multiple tech communities in MENA. Ahmed is in charge of Egypreneur technical strategic vision.
Maybe you?
Chief Operations Officer
We’re looking for a Chief Operations Officer to take care of all operations being executing within Egypreneur, if you can do it find a way to contact us.
Sally Fetouh
Content Officer
Sally is a Project Management Professional with an IT background and getting into Law, with great passion for writing and communicating. Sally is in charge of Egypreneur Content, maintains its strategy and supervise its operations!
Maybe you?
Content Executive
We’re looking for a content executive to manage all our content operations. If you think you can do it, contact us.
Mai Abdel-Aziz
Content Coordinator
Mai moderated an entrepreneurship workshop, participated in INJAZ’s Company Program and won the most passionate team, then she joined Egypreneur to manage communication and coordination tasks related to content.
Maybe you?
Content Producer
We’re looking for a content producer to monitor the the development of different types of content from conception to production, adding a special flavor, making it more effective and presentable.
Maged Ghoneima
Community Officer
Dr. Maged is an inspirational speaker and iconic leader in the entrepreneurship sphere in Egypt, he’s the founder of Startup Summer Camp and currently leading our community team.
Mohammad Omara
Community Manager Alexandria
Mohammad is one of the most outspoken individuals about entrepreneurship in Egypt, he’s the lead organizer of Startup Weekend Alex and managing Egypreneur community in Alexandria!
Mahmoud Ahmed
Community Manager Upper Egypt
Mahmoud is the co-founder of S3Geeks, he carries the passion of developing Egypt starting with Upper Egypt, Mahmoud manages Egypreneur community in Upper Egypt!
Bahr Nasr
Community Executive
Bahr is the co-founder of S3Geeks, he knows how to sell and through S3Geeks and Egypreneur he’s selling entrepreneurship as a career choice to everyone he gets across!
Reem Shalaby
Community Executive
Reem is an energetic networker, she represented Egypt in entrepreneurial activities and involved with Egypreneur offline activities, connecting entrepreneurs with each other and with what Egypreneur is here to offer!
Sarah Ahmed
Community Executive
Sarah is a warm, passionate networker, she’s active within every entrepreneurship community online managing Egypreneur networking activities and building our community!
Mohamed Alborno
Marketing Officer
Mohamed is the founder of Crowdsway, Egypt Business Network, former PR Officer at Cairo ToastMasters Club and the first Xing Ambassador in Egypt, Mohamed is in charge of Egypreneur digital communication, marketing materials and networking events.
Sherif Ahmed
Marketing Executive
Sherif is a firm executive and smart marketer, he’s one of the main driving engines of Egypreneur, currently leading its marketing activities and managing our #CairoTraffic project.
Ashraf Magid
Marketing Executive
Ashraf led the Academic committee at ACES one of the most effective student activities in Egyptian universities, before joining Egypreneur to spread the word about entrepreneurship in Egypt.
Rana Mahfouz
Marketing Coordinator
Rana moderated an entrepreneurship workship, she’s a dedicated crew member and excellent communicator managing our marketing communication tasks!
Dalia Said
Ecosystem Officer
Dalia is former CEO of AIESEC Egypt, holding a Master in Education from Harvard. She works on analyzing, establishing and maintaining synergies with different stakeholders in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Ahmed Abdel-Fatah
PR Executive
Ahmed is one of the corner-stones of Egypreneur, Ahmed is the dude for the tough moments, he’s managing Egypreneur image in the media and actively involved in all executive tasks we get involved with.
Yara ElShennawy
PR Coordinator
Yara is an active initiator and excellent communicator, she manages the communication tasks for the PR team!
Ahmed ElSharkawy
Fundraising Officer
Sharkawy is a fabulous organizer, after serving as the president of a major student activity, Egypreneur depends on Sharkawy for sourcing the funding necessary for running Egypreneur and its projects!
Amira Farghaly
Fundraising Executive
Amira participated in organizing TEDxAlexandriaU served as the sales manager for a major entity and currently involved in allocating resources for Egypreneur projects while being involved with our operations in Alexandria!
Support Center:
Maybe you?
Support Director
We’re looking for someone with the passion, experience and dedication to lead the entrepreneur support center!
Media Center:
Ahmed Abdel-Fatah
Media Director
Ahmed is a PR Professional with passion for media, beside serving at Egypreneur as a PR Executive he’s in charge of Egypreneur media work on how to spread entrepreneurship through media and introduce entrepreneurs to different media outlets.
Info Center:
Ahmed ElSharkawy
Information Director
Sharkawy is a fabulous organizer with an impressive ability to work with information, beside serving as the fundraising officer of Egypreneur. Sharkawy is leading Egypreneur Information work.
Events Center:
Maybe you?
Events Director
We’re looking for someone with the experience, skills and ability to strategize, plan and execute regular events that serve the entrepreneurship society in Egypt.
Tech Center:
Shady Sharaf
Technical Director
Shady is leading the technical work for Egypreneur, with wide experience as a development lead, shady knows how to get stuff done when in need of a new feature or a fix!
Diaa Qurah
Creative Photographer
Diaa is a passionate and creative photographer who’ll soon hit hte world record for taking photos of entrepreneurs, Diaa also helps us with shooting videos throughout our different activities.
Mohamed Mounir
Graphic Designer
Mohamed is a Graphic Designer who enjoys designing different graphic elements for Egypreneur.
Mahmoud Deiab
Interface Designer
Mahmoud is an interface designer, who loves to experiment with how users conceive interfaces, he’s involved with Egypreneur to design different interfaces.
Ramy Abbady
Video Producer
Ramy is an active participant in all entrepreneurship activities, he’s involved with most phases of video production for Egypreneur.
Reem Awad
Social Media Executive
Reem is a Blogger and Social Media Enthusiast and she’s involved in managing, scheduling and automating Egypreneur social media accounts.
Ahmed Deiab
Production Intern
Ahmed Khaled is a Student of Business Administration at the British University in Egypt, he’s interested in becoming a director one day and accordingly involved with Egypreneur production process.
culture
We thought of a few pillar or principles that abide all our strategies, plans and actions that while working on Egypreneur and influence the entrepreneurship community in Egypt to abide with these principles, creating a better entrepreneurial atmosphere! These principles are as follows:
Original: There is this unique breathtaking fragrance and special attraction to everything that stems from original source and created from original inspiration, that’s why while building this organization “Egypreneur” we’re embracing originality in everything we do. And by this, we’re passing this quality to all entrepreneur in Egypt as one of the main pillars of a startup-nation-to-be.
Creative: Creativity is the driver for innovation and then entrepreneurship, as an entity that seeks to promote innovation and entrepreneurship we’ll embrace creativity in everything we do, it might seem like crazy sometime, but, hey, aren’t we talking about entrepreneurship?
Consistent: Connecting things together and associating action with meaning, beside being apparent in our logo, we have all our important meetings on the Nile, and we love leaving you thinking about our next move analyzing our flow of thoughts, principles and actions.
Focused: There are plenty of things that can be done at any given time, as we evaluate and decide, focus should be placed on achieving specific objectives, conveying specific messages, getting involved with a limited number of projects depending on the resources available.
Inspiring: We seek to spread inspiration in the way we think about it and reflect it to people. By the end of the day what Egypreneur can do best is inspiring people to action, that should also be an integrated part of our communication as a team.
Sustainable: In our communications, activities and plans we should keep in mind how to keep this relationship sustainable with the person I’m emailing right now, how to keep the effect created during an event even increasing, how to take care of our data. Sustainability makes the effect of the work to be done in the next 6 months extend to maybe years to come.
projects
Traffic Solutions (Za7ma)
October 9th, 2011 | | Abdo | Comments OffThe major challenge facing the Egyptian society currently is the traffic issue, we’re in a pre-operating phase of a project called (“Za7ma – زحمة”) that seeks to inspire mainstream Egyptians to look differently to our problems by searching and proposing solutions other than crying about it, starting with the Za7ma issue. While entrepreneurs will be [...]
Social Network
October 9th, 2011 | | Abdo | Comments OffAs our objective at Egypreneur is to expand the community of grassroots entrepreneurs and match them with opportunities; we’re launching a social network for entrepreneurs in Egypt (http://egypreneur.com) to center our interaction with entrepreneurs and stakeholders on it and offer a set of support services to both entrepreneurs and ecosystem entities. The network will allow [...]
Club7AM
October 9th, 2011 | | Abdo | Comments OffOne of the main traits of an entrepreneur is productivity and getting up early is in the core of that, we’re starting a project to inspire Egypreneur(s) and the world to wake up early and get ready for productive work sessions by 7AM, we’re initiating the project across our different social networks from now on [...]
Information Portal
September 9th, 2011 | | Abdo | Comments OffWe’re establishing an information network for entrepreneurs in Egypt to provide data, statistics and information. We started publishing infographics about recent events took place in the entrepreneurship sphere in Egypt and working on other interesting infographics will mark the launch of our information portal to be a sustainable source of information about Egypreneur(s) and a [...]
S3Geeks
September 9th, 2011 | | Abdo | Comments OffUpper Egypt never had the attention it deserves when it comes to development generally and to the support for entrepreneurs there. We’re managing a project to identify, support and celebrate entrepreneurs in Upper Egypt. You can check the details form here http://s3geeks.com
activities
Startup Weekend Alex, Media Sponsorship
October 7th, 2011 | | Abdo | Comments OffWe partnered up with Startup Weekend Alexandria to showcase the participation of 300+ aspiring entrepreneurs in the event organized at Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport
Startup Summer Camp, Media Sponsorship
October 7th, 2011 | | Abdo | Comments OffWe partnered up with Startup Summer Camp as a media sponsor to give more exposure to entrepreneurs participating within Startup Summer Camp
INJAZ Company Program, Social Media Sponsorship
October 7th, 2011 | | Abdo | Comments OffWe proudly cooperated with INJAZ Egypt, in supporting INJAZ’s online presence for the company program. Here’s with Ms. Dina El-Mofty has to say about INJAZ and The Company Program
CairoICT, Entrepreneurship Booth
October 7th, 2011 | | Abdo | Comments OffFor the first time during CairoICT, we’ve created the entrepreneurship booth and invited entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas, network and know more about opportunities in the ecosystem in Egypt, plus, we’ve gained CairoICT commitment for more space for entrepreneurs next year.
Startup Weekend Cairo, Media Sponsorship
October 7th, 2011 | | Abdo | Comments OffEgypreneur provided media coverage during Startup Weekend Cairo through our different online media channels. Following is what Startup Weekend Cairo organizers has to do about their experience organizing Startup Weekend Cairo
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testimonials
We value all the feedback we get from the awesome entrepreneurs and supporter we have the chance to work with, below are some of this feedback we’ve got:
“I need to meet you! I’m fed up with being an employee! I want to break up with my employer! So I’m asking for a date!” – Tarek Mostafa, Wannabe Entrepreneur | Source : Twitter
“Egypreneur Is a role model of sustainability in the toughest conditions, follow them”, Mostafa Nageeb, CEO of Ekshef.com | Source: Twitter
“Are you an Egyptian Entrepreneur ? then you should follow Egypreneur for all updates and tips to help you get going” Mostafa Sheshtawy | Source: Twitter
“Egypt has a real treasure with Egypreneur great new media tapping into the next generation of entrepreneurs” Mike Ducker, Entrepreneur-In-Residence, ECP Egypt | Source: Twitter
“You are great people ! full of enthusiasm, believers on what you do. God Bless You.” – Mostafa Nageeb, CEO of Ekshef.com | Source: Twitter
“You guys are doing an amazing job at CairoICT … Keep going!” Mohammed Al-Ayouti, Mobile Internet Senior Manager, Vodafone Egypt | Source: Twitter
“Thank Egypreneur for giving entrepreneurs the chance to promote themselves & gather around interesting discussions” El-Menus.com | Source: Twitter
“Honored to meet Egypreneur Team, they r doing a great job in supporting startups & providing them with business opportunities!” – Bey2ollak | Source: Twitter
“Egypreneur gives me hope on a daily basis, it’s what Egypt needs right now. Key is focusing on doing the best, each in his/her field” – Mohammed El-Shinnawy | Source: Twitter
“Follow Egypreneur for fantastic effort promoting entrepreneurship in Egypt” Mostafa Ghanem, PhD, Vice President, Nile University | Source: Twitter
“Just by following Egypreneur, i’ve noticed tht we have great mind blowing ideas and people working on great initiatives in Egypt for Egypt” – Dalia El Kilany | Source: Twitter
“If want to get a sneak peek of Egypt’s bright future and energize your hopes, Egypreneur can do it for u” – Mohamed El-Shinnawy | Source: Twitter
“Great efforts to make ideas take place in our real life” – Sherif El-Mahdy | Source: Twitter
“I like the Club7 initiative by Egypreneur, great work, this is the only way to rise” – Nelly Nour El-Din | Source: Twitter
blog
How to avoid the ideas generation trap?
October 29th, 2011 | articles | Dalia | 2 CommentsThis talk was taken from www.the99percent.com, the 99% is a research arm and think tank which takes its name from Thomas Edison’s famous quote that “genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration,” hence their efforts are to study and drive professionals who constitute the 1% to deliver their ideas to full maturity that requires the 99%. [...]
Embrace your Entrepreneurial Spirit
October 11th, 2011 | articles | Sally | 2 CommentsEgypreneur is a great initiative that provides an avenue for creativity and inspiration for startups and ideas as well as a place to connect with entrepreneurs and people with like-minded aspirations. I wanted to be part of this positive enterprise as a means to build Egypt’s economy at a crucial time. I am an Egyptian [...]
Random ReWork Tips!
October 6th, 2011 | chi-chat | Abdo | 1 CommentI tweeted some tips from ReWork while having a refresh skimming through it yesterday and wanted to share it here. Enjoy! Instead of trying to outspend, outsell, or outsponsor competitors, try to out-teach them. Teach and you’ll get a pond you just don’t get from traditional marketing tactics. All companies have customers. Lucky companies have [...]
How do you run your life?
October 6th, 2011 | crew-personal | Abdo | 2 CommentsIt’s seriously challenging to stay focused and positive while turbulent situations are storming your life either personally, work-related or concerning the future of your country. Having a system in place to run your life accordingly can be a great support to stay focused, positive and moving forward regardless of what’s happening around you. During the [...]
Be Who you Want to Be!
October 1st, 2011 | articles | Sally | 1 CommentThere comes a time when all you want to do is just find a way to realise the person within you. A nagging sensation that pokes at the corners of your mind will not relent until you do. Distractions are just that and you look at them as time wasting exercises. And anything else that [...]
Managing, can it bring entrepreneurial satisfaction?
September 29th, 2011 | chi-chat | Abdo | 1 CommentAs one of our core cultural values and what we’re working on emphasizing in the entrepreneurship scene in Egypt is sustainability (check our culture page here) this blog started as the main tool for interaction for Egypreneur (Crew). Twitter proved to be one of the most powerful tools for a real-time brain-storming sessions that leaves [...]
Egypreneur, Developing our Community
September 5th, 2011 | crew-formal | Sharkawy | No CommentsI’ve started with entrepreneurship when I was a student at the faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. I Co-found a student activity named Steps Towards Progress (STP), which aims to helps faculty students develop their skills and accordingly, have better opportunities in their lives. Out of my experience with STP, I was eager to get involved [...]
