This 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%.

In this talk, Scott Belsky Founder & CEO of Behance addressed the people living in the 1% where once you get an idea in your mind and you fall in love with it you spend huge amounts of your time with this new love having many meetings, staying up all night obsessing over it. Eventually however, when the time comes for execution people tend to plummet into low motivation as they enter the project management phase.

He sheds light on how many ideas move from a place of high motivation to the bottom of the curve and how many carcusses (dead bodies) of great ideas are lying at the bottom of this curve because many do not exert effort to see the idea to the finish or long enough until it starts bringing in income for example.

So instead of focusing on it and executing we like living in the initial motivation so we return to our feeling of a “high” once a new idea comes up and we go through this high over and over again and never really accomplish any one of those ideas.

So he introduces the “Creatives’ Compromise”, where many of the successful people he’d interviewed said they had to make a compromise in their lives and discipline themselves of what they naturally tend to do which is move from one idea to another.

The video will introduce how:

· You SHOULD seek restraints: like budget, timelines, deadlines and value them because they can help you get off track.

· You should think BIG but act SMALL: breaking down the big chunks into smaller manageable chunks of time ( not goals). Then making them something BEAUTIFUL to look at everyday where computer-based project management systems unfortunately do not support this.

· You should Build a SHORT TERM reward system, because it is something people have depended on a lot as they were growing up, so not seeing the fruits of one’s ideas early in the process is problematic. Scott shares stories of some solutions to this.

· You should embrace and WELCOME SKEPTICS in the creative process rather than do the reverse.

· You should SEEK COMPETITION; it may sometimes help you push yourself to set an end in sight.

· You should SHARE IDEAS LIBERALLY in order to STAY ACCOUNTABLE to them, keeping ideas a secret can actually mean that it dies in your mind.

He concludes how the creative process is 1% creativity and comes naturally while the 99% is ACQUIRED DISCIPLINE where one needs to take the time to develop and master the acts of organization, community and leadership to push ideas forward. He calls on people to focus on the 99%.

What’s your opinion about that?

Dalia Said

PR Officer

Dalia is ex-CEO of AIESEC Egypt, holding a Master in Education from Harvard. She works on establishing partnerships with different stakeholders in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, while adding an intellectual touch to our communications and activities.

Egypreneur is a community of grassroots entrepreneurs, building that community is the greatest asset for all Egypreneur upcoming work. The Crew celebrated the beginning of an organized model to build Egypreneur community, a signup page is now with our community team members across the country as they organize casual gatherings and guerilla activities to invite people to become Egypreneur(s) and expand the community of entrepreneurs all around Egypt.

The signup page, which will be used for our social network afterwards is going to be available in the upcoming events that’s open to promote entrepreneurship to its audiences, our community team will be identifying these events and activities and invite participants to signup!

By 5PM Egypreneur friends who signed up to attend the celebration joined in, after a very interested round introduction during which they spoke about (Google Ebda2, ArabNet Conference, Education vs. Career, Public Speaking and energetically shared the positive energy towards building the New Egypt) while signing up for Egypreneur.

After the introduction and break, attendees split in 2 focus groups and a networking area.

First focus group for entrepreneurs support, identifying what entrepreneurs in Egypt need and how Egypreneur can help them was lead by Ahmed AbdelFatah our PR Executive and contained very interesting discussions and suggestions. Egypreneur CEO, Abdelrahman Magdy asked the focus group members for their views about the financial model they think would be best for sustaining Egypreneur and a lot of interesting suggestions had been shared.

The second focus group was about Za7ma the Cairo Traffic problem in Cairo, led by Sherif Ahmed the Za7ma project manager, the focus group included entrepreneurs already running ICT projects to help solving Za7ma and students working on their graduation project to solve the same problem.

Around the focus groups, attendees enjoyed networking, chatting and discussing how they can possibly work together to advance their projects.

Egypreneur Crew received very positive feedback on the gathering and wishes for more, attendees was promised of a lot more gatherings in the coming period as the community team starts its public activities.

After this gathering, Egypreneur community team will be organizing and/or participating in at least one activity per week in every city around Egypt, where the signup form will be available.

I am an Egyptian who lived all of my life abroad. From a young age I was exposed to change and attracted by ideas and unconventional approaches. This is mostly the reason which made me venture towards an initial career in IT, at a time when the industry was making a giant leap into the world of the Internet and the web. I started out as a software engineer and shifted into various roles including business analysis and project management. Writing, however, has always been and remains my passion. Reaching stagnation, I instinctively looked around me and within the industry for new opportunities and gaps in the market that desperately needed filling. I realised the speed at which the industry was advancing technologically while other important areas lagged behind and struggled to keep up. One important area was law.

At a time in my career where most people would call their peak, I decided to take a leap of faith and go down a different path. I made my career move into law. The journey has not been easy and it is far from over. There continue to be daily challenges. I faced resistance at the beginning at an odd career move and decision. But with perseverance, persistence and patience an accepting sense of resolve settles in and I found support in more ways than one. The important thing is never to give up and truly commit yourself to what you believe in.

Entrepreneuship as a concept is by far the best way to achieve this. And just how I used that concept to find a way to work towards filling a gap and creating a niche for myself, I joined Egypreneur as a Content Officer to try and help others do the same. Using my passion with writing and communicating, I would be able to provide the skills and experience to enable value-added content to be published and spread to the wider public. The ultimate aim is to motivate more people in embracing their own entrepreneurship spirit and with it, advance the Egyptian economy.

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!

I 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 fans. But the most fortune companies have audiences!

Being obscure is a great position to be in. Use this time to make mistakes without the whole world hearing about ‘em

You don’t want everyone to watch you ‘starting’ your business. Doesn’t make sense to tell everyone to look at u when not ready

The enthusiasm u have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth, Let your latest grand ideas cool off 4 a while

If you’re successful, people will try to copy what you do. There’s a great way to protect yourself from copycats.. Guesses?

Make ‘you’ part of your product or service, inject what’s unique about the way u think into what you sell

Momentum fuels motivation. It keeps you going, it drives you. Without it, you can’t go anywhere

The way you build momentum is by getting something done and then moving on to the next

To keep your momentum get in the habit of accomplishing small victories longer something takes the less likely you’ll finish it

Remember, great brands launch without PR campaigns all the time. Starbucks, Apple, Nike, Amazon, Google all became great brands over time, not because of a big PR push upfront!

Never hire anyone to do a job until you’ve tried to do it yourself first. That way, you’ll know what a job well done looks like.

No one likes plastic flowers, the business world is full of ‘professionals’ who wear the uniform and try to seem perfect. In truth..They just come off as stiff and boring. No one can relate to people like that.

There’s beauty to imperfection. This is the essence of the japanese principle Wabi-sabi, valuing character & uniqueness over a shiny facade!

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!

During the previous weekend, with the need to sort a few things in Alex, I used it as an opportunity for some – unfortunately, very rare – ‘me time’ to rethink things, reorganize priorities and get back with a clear vision of where am I standing and where am I heading. Looking at this experience now, I discovered that I already have a system to run my life accumulated from previous experiences and just never thought of it as an organized structure to “run your life”. I’m here to share.

It’s important to first understand what controls our decision-making and influences “how” we approach running our life. I believe we have a few assets that direct our decision-making and eventually decide our destiny. Those are our beliefs, character and experiences.

We grow up with our beliefs and owe our parents and environment for the fundamental ideas that will control how we approach life afterwards. Our faith, national belonging and basic ideas about social interaction are mostly formed at an early age. While we should never stop questioning our beliefs and be open for a paradigm shift, a major change in those is rare, takes time and is a heart-wrenching experiences.

Besides our DNA, practicing these basic ideas forms our character. Our basic personality traits start showing up as a result of our interaction with the environment and experiences we go through. I believe with practice people can change if they have the will, dedication and suitable environment. I personally started showing more patience lately and that wasn’t a character trait I grew up with.

The set of knowledge, skills and mental images formed by our experiences in life are also a major factor in deciding our destiny.

As we define who we are and how we look at life by these beliefs, character traits and experiences, we realize that we have limited time to live, with room for limited things to do. That’s when we’re required to decide the direction that our life will take by deciding our goals. If we don’t have well-defined goals, values and objectives in life, then we didn’t start living yet and just being reactionary towards what happens to us in life.

From about four years, I started using Clear Mind ~ Bright Future to write down my goals in a booklet. I come out from a goal setting session with a single paper with my goals for every year; an exercise through which you ask yourself about your purpose, legacy, values, life goals and fears. It helps you write down who you are and what you want in an objective way that will lead to your yearly objectives this year.

I led an exercise on 01/01/2011 in a gathering JanSat1 Achieving Your 2011 Dreams during which I went with some colleges through the experience of setting our goals on a single paper.

Getting back to my 24 pages analysis, I can see no change in life purpose, values or legacy, but as it moves to specific key areas in life, goals start to get smarter and more specific. Every year, reading this, I can see the direction I’ve decided to take my life to and see the path evolving, that makes you feel grounded, aware and “know what you’re doing with your life”.

Funny thing is that in the 2008 goals paper, I can find “Tozzz” (an Arabic word meaning “doesn’t matter”) in the “Positive attitudes I am now cultivating” section and I can evaluate this in that the last few years whenever something happens, I say “Tozz” and move on.

Having decided on specific goals, it’s time for strategies and the action plans to reach them. Two years ago, I started using 37Signals applications and currently as I look to them, I find on Backpack that there are private pages that include how I’ll approach what I want to do. When it’s not private, these pages get shared with team members, advisors or anyone who has a valuable contribution to make.

So, our goals lead to strategies, models and approaches to get it done. And by then it’s time for execution. Basecamp, being a project management tool, is currently where operations to get stuff done is being led. I counted 23 projects currently being executed in different activities I’m involved with. I created a company and called it “Abdo” through which I manage personal projects and executive tasks not related to any other project.

I base all my communication on these applications, so whenever there is something that should get done, “if it’s not on Basecamp it doesn’t exist” and I try to train and mentor everyone I work with to religiously follow these applications. Actually, the level of interaction there is a health indicator of whether things are being done and on time or not.

Even if I’m digitally connected most of the time, I keep my agenda as a record for my previous activities and those soon to come. Having to organize your daily activities on the agenda is the best approach ever. All this digital stuff gets too complex for a daily check of what you’re supposed to do.

Sometimes, our life gets out of control and we need to get back to researching who we are, what we stand for, what our goals are, what strategies we need to reach these goals and then what should we do about them. When I get back and look at things with this clarity, I can identify what went wrong and how to ReWork it.

I enjoyed this exercise putting my thoughts on a blog post and I’m curious to know about you, how do you run your life?

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!

I believe that positivity and optimism are more of a way of life other than an attitude we selectively have when things are going well. Being a Muslim, my religious belief teaches that everything happens for the best including failures, difficulties and hard times and that my role as a human being is to heartfully submit to the will of god in all that I don’t have direct control over and then change reality with the power god has given me, which is endless!

While observing tweets about the economic and political situation in Egypt currently, I find it mostly sarcasm and crying over a situation you’re a part of; the story of prophet Joseph occurred to me and found it a brilliant representation to while objectively and realistically facing challenges, staying positive and optimistic at all times other than crying over a situation you’re not objectively working on solving.

The king of Egypt called Prophet Joseph telling him a dream he had – Having the talent to interpret dreams – he didn’t went on describing the fact that Egypt will be going through deadly seven years, but he directly described what should be done about it and how to tackle the situation and get through it with minimum losses.

We’ll be always faced with obstacles, challenges and hard times while realistic realization of the situation and an an objective plan to get through it is obviously a must, I believe the attitude and emotions involved during these times should still be positivity and optimism and that stating being optimistic during these times, is not being an unrealistic dreamer, but maybe a natural optimist and a firm believer.

As an entrepreneur, you’ll have to rely on your internally generated positive energy when the things you need to get done, teams you have to lead, people you have to deal with, disputes you have to go through and challenges you have to face demands more and more energy, positivity and optimism.

What about you, what motivates you to stay positive and optimistic during hard times?

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!

The cynics out there might frown and wag their fingers. Impulse can be risky business but so can an unfulfilled life; living to be only half the person that you are.

A job can be one of two extremes – no in-between – it is that dramatic. At one end, a job can be nothing more than the ordinary meaning of the word and a means of gaining one’s livelihood. It is that circle of comfort that is stretched every now and then to expand your skills and knowledge but, always, remaining within the confines of that circle. That is what we were taught growing up – get a good job and enjoy the comforts of life. Most jobs falls into this category, even those jobs that feign promises of career glory and progression. I have seen it happen over again, the bright spark wanes and you find yourself settling into your circle. That is usually the reason why most people move on.

At the other end of the scale, a job can be the means to make you explore never-ending avenues of innovation within yourself, as a person and as an individual. The job stops being just a job and instead metamorphosises into a personal goal to allow you to give it all that you can. It is all about personal ownership, being the best that you can and making your job the best that there is. When that happens, know that you have crossed the fine line of being, breathing and feeling entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship does not have to be viewed in the black or white sense of starting your own business. Instead, it is a concept and a way of approaching your life and career goals. Ones which you can realise in any sort of environment that you find yourself in. When creativity and ideas, bursting at the seams, yearn to be brought to life, you know that there is no better time. Just be who you want to be; who you need to be. If the circle that you find yourself in becomes nothing more than a limitation, expand and distort it to allow it to fulfill your ideals. And failing that, channel your own path. Here or elsewhere.

I will caveat all this and say that the life of an entrepreneur is not meant to be easy. There will be challenges and brick walls that slam you in the face but think of the alternative. Once you have set foot on that path there truly is no turning back to a life half fulfilled. The setbacks and challenges that you will encounter will multiply your resolve and provide you with energy to encourage you to persist beyond your expectations. That is what realising dreams is all about. It becomes a matter of survival to be the person whom you were always meant to be.

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!

Twitter proved to be one of the most powerful tools for a real-time brain-storming sessions that leaves wealth of knowledge, experience and anecdotes shared in a specific matter to be wiped with the flow, as from now on, we’ll be blogging interesting discussions that we have on Twitter and any other tool in here. We haven’t started talking about our blog yet, but we’ll in the near future and consider this a teaser of what this website is meant to be for

Amr El-Gabry @AmrElGabry someone I personally had the pleasure of meeting while working on our CairoTraffic Solutions Project, asked a question about the source of satisfaction for an entrepreneur, is it from the environment or from Managing “your business” – (my interpretation: being the boss)

Experiencing that managing in an early stage, probably with limited resources, in a dynamic fast-paced environment with a place for a lot of risk and disappointment, that was my response:

Mostafa Naguib, finalist for Imagine Cup Award and one of my all-the-time most favorite geeks, added that sometimes management in a startup can get overwhelming tweeting:

Toffy El Shafei @ToffyElShafei , partner at Outreach Egypt Small and medium organizations’ institutional development consultancy emphasized that having systems in place would make managing fun:

Startups being so much of a dynamic, fast-paced place to be, I added:

Amgad Kaldas, @Amgad_Kaldas one of the voices that always brings wisdom to our twitter conversations added that right people on the right seats in a startup will require some effort:

Toffy then added that the process she mentioned should be developed according to the case of the organization – with some flexibility.

And a very good point is that this process can be initiated in a smaller scale and then expand as the organization grows.

Amgad then brought to our attention Jim Collis “From Good to Great” where he has a chapter speaking about getting the who “staff” first and then getting them used to the what “process”.

What I have learned from this interesting conversation is that in a startup environment – which passes with different stages dynamically and managing can be hard in some of these stages – the way to evolve the organization is to focus on who, who you bring in to play and then start slowly developing processes and coaching/training people to follow the process, hopefully that can lead to satisfaction to the manager side of you while running your startup.

Yet, more interesting input being added..

Thanks everyone who participated in this interesting conversation and keeping it flowing and if anyone have any ideas or interesting input feel free to comment below.

And, soft welcome to our blog

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!

A “Startup”, as defined in Wikipedia, is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets. The term became internationally popular during the dot-com bubble that occurred roughly in the second nibble of the 90s ending around 2000. During this bubble a great number of dot-com companies were founded enriching what we call now the IT industry.

Although startup companies may come in any form, still the phrase “Startup Company” is often associated with high growth, and mostly technology-oriented companies. On the contrary, we have the “Established Business” term which we can use with companies like IBM, Intel, General Motors, etc. Successful startups are typically more scalable than an established business, in the sense that they can potentially grow rapidly with limited investment of capital, labor or land.

Back to our “Startup Nation” term, should we now understand it as the nation with the ‘largest’ number of startups or namely ‘successful’ startups? From my own personal point of view, unsuccessful startups are also successful in a way they contribute to the successful ones who learn from their failure. Still, the number of startups within a nation is insignificant until they positively contribute to the nation’s economy. But what about the “2.0” part that we missed all the way? Does it mean that there is already 1.0? The straight answer comes from DAN SENOR’s & SAUL SINGER’s book “Startup Nation: The story of Israel’s economic miracle”.

YES, Israel is the current Startup Nation or what we technologically version as Startup Nation 1.0. Being an Egyptian doesn’t make me disbelieve in this fact. The economy of Israel is a technologically advanced market economy, consisting of rapidly developing high-tech sector, mainly innovative startups, which is backed by a strong Venture Capital Industry. Israel is known for being a world leader in software, telecommunications and semiconducturs development industries. Amazingly, it’s also known for being relatively poor in natural, and probably human, resources that make up greatest nations. Israel depends on imports of coal, food, petroleum and the latest “Natural Gas” from our own beloved Egyptian Nation.

A huge effort was done to make Israel the current Startup Nation. This effort came from three main tributaries: Government, Entrepreneurs and Investors. The erudite, eighty three year old, two-time prime minister and Nobel Prize winner Shimon Perez along with the thirty nine year old smart geek, who is of an Iraqi origins, Shai Agassi make the best example of the cooperation between Israeli state government and Israeli entrepreneurs leading to the Startup Nation 1.0. Perez invited the CEO’s of the world’s five largest carmakers to let Shai pitch his electric car idea in front of them. Doesn’t it look odd to pitch an electric car idea in 2007? Electric cars were popular in the late-19th century and early 20th century, until advances in internal combustion engine technology and mass production of cheaper gasoline vehicles led to a decline in the use of electric drive vehicle. The idea of the electric car came back to the scene after the huge rise in oil prices during 2000’s. Shai decided to make a national project that allows Israel to be completely independent from neighbouring, enemy, oil and natural gas. The good news here is that his, most probably 5 minute, pitch managed to raise a fund of $200 million dollars, $130 million out of the total amount came from only one risk-taking Israeli investor who wanted to build a better Israeli state. This Shai’s pitch made his “Better Place” company the fifth-largest startup in the whole history. No brainer a state like this is the world’s Startup Nation given such persistent government, smart innovative entrepreneurs and risk-taking investors.

Israel’s military service is obligatory the same way it is in Egypt. Yet, the service is due after the completion of high school education; unlike in Egypt. I won’t spend much comparing our military service to Israel’s. I will let you do that by your own after telling you about one of Israel’s military service programs/units. “Talpiot” program has the distinction of being both the most selective unit and the one that subjects its soldiers to the longest training course in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF)—fourty-one months. This is comparable to our military service training camp of 45 days (now probably shortened after #Jan25 revolution). Those who enter the program sign on for an extra six years in the military, so their minimum obligatory service is a total of nine years! What’s so good about this program that imprisons people for whole nine years!

Each year, the top 2% of Israeli high school students are asked to try out – two thousand students. Of these, only one in ten pass a battery of tests mainly in “Physics” and “Math”!! (Physics and Math as a qualification to the military service!!!!!). These two hundred students are then run through two days of intensive personality and aptitude testing (this reminds me of the screening tests of Police Academy in EgyptJ). Once admitted into the program, Talpiot cadets blaze through an accelerated university degree in math of physics while they are introduced to the technological needs of all IDF branches. The academic training they receive goes beyond what the typical university student would receive in Israel or anywhere else—they study more, in less time to get university degrees comparable to those obtained from MIT, Berkeley and Stanford. They also go through basic training with the paratroopers. The idea is to give them an overview of all the major IDF branches so that they understand both the technology and military needs – and specially the connection between them. The Talpiot program as a whole is under Mafat, the IDF’s internal research and development arm, which is parallel to America’s DARPA (can we call the Arab Organization for Industrialization “AOI”, the Egyptian Army arm for R&D???). Mafat has the coveted and sensitive job of assigning each Talpiot cadet (Talpion) to a specific unit in the IDF for their next six years of regular service.

Talpiot training is optimized to maintain the IDF’s technological edge, the same combination of leadership experience and technical knowledge is ideal for creating new companies. Although the program has produced only about 650 graduates since founded after the historical defeat against Egypt in 6th of October war, they have become some of Israel’s top academics and founders of the state’s most successful companies. NICE systems, the global corporation behind call-monitoring systems used by 85 of the Forbes 100 companies, was founded by a team of Talpions. So was Campugen, a leader in human-gnome decoding and drug development. Many of the Israeli technology companies traded on the NASDAQ were either founded by a Talpion or have alumni situated in key roles. We need to know that, after the United States, Israel has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any other country in the world, including India, China, Korea, Singapore and Ireland.

More stories can be narrated about how Israel became the current Startup Nation. Still, this is not the end. They will do more to sustain their success and grow their illegal state. But where are we? What is our reaction towards that? Should we even have a reaction?

Yes, we have to have a reaction. We successfully moved one step forward towards being an independent nation. We made a peaceful successful revolution against dictatorship that inspired even our enemies. We should continue to build a great nation. I, personally, believe that “Economy Comes First”. We should have a national dream, not like Turkey’s, not like Malaysia’s, not like Korea’s, not even like the United States’ or Israel’s. We should have our own model that, once again, redirects the history towards this part of the world called Egypt. We should be the Startup Nation 2.0 in less than 10 years. Israel could have muscles but lacks both the spirit and belief behind to achieve victory. We have the true belief and divine spirit and all we want now is to work out our muscles.

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!

That gives us the opportunity to deeply understand entrepreneurs needs and obstacles they (we) face. Actually we’re very fortunate to interact with Egyptian entrepreneurs on a daily basis in the projects we execute or the events we sponsor. The best feeling ever is when we get to help an entrepreneur or give his project a needed push.

For me being the Co-Founder of 7elme a startup creating the perfect environment for dreamers and achievers to share, talk about and push their dreams forward while enjoying bringing them to reality, I can reflect my experience as an entrepreneur to my work with Egypreneur.

Through 7el.me we believe that all ambitious people can be connected together and work on their dreams, also when a group of people share one dream, they need a tool to help them organize their thoughts and ideas to combine their efforts in a better way. All of that will certainly lead to increasing success stories in the community and that’s what we all aspire to.

I am a huge believer in entrepreneurship and as a Marketing Executive at Egypreneur, my role is to spread entrepreneurship spirit in Egypt. In Egypreneur we look to it from 2 angles, the ecosystem development and grassroots promotion:

First, thinking that the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt is lacking an organized structure and practical approach to encourage, support and sustain entrepreneurs’ work; through Egypreneur we’re establishing that organized structure. Activities like entrepreneurship booth during Cairo ICT and the Cairo Traffic (Za7ma) project and the “entrepreneurs support center” we’re working on is a good example of how we’re tackling this.

Secondly is promoting entrepreneurship to grassroots, that can be seen in some of our activities like our booth during ESEA Job Fair showing Computer Science fresh graduates that if you didn’t find any company you like at the fair then maybe building your own business is what you need to be doing.

Also I am sure you’ll be hearing more and more about the great work S3Geeks are doing to develop Upper Egypt and similar activities will be rolled out soon.

Here at Egypreneur, our ultimate objective is to evolve Egypt into a startup nation, being a group of entrepreneurs ourselves gives us the passion, drive and perseverance and of course we can’t do it without regular interactions with such an vibrant community of Egypeneur(s).

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.