Ahmad and Salah Co-Founders of HeyDoc!

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HeyDoc! is a healthcare technology platform dedicated to connecting patients with the right medical consultants, wherever they are, the easiest way possible.

HeyDoc! is an award winning global telemedicine platform dedicated to connecting patients with the right medical consultants, wherever they are, the easiest way possible.

Delivering in-app medical advisory & communication, accelerating access to quality healthcare with private round-the-clock advise and care.

Ahmad Al-Hidiq is a passionate Tech-thusiast, International Speaker and Executer that’s been consulting, innovating and delivering solutions for over 12 years. Managing Director of WebMisc. a Digital Marketing Agency and Co-Founder of HeyDoc! – an award winning telemedicine platform that is disrupting healthcare relationships and the way Doctors advise patients by focusing on emerging and innovative communication technologies.

Ahmad also often participates as a mentor and speaker at various accelerators, conferences and workshops around the world.

Salah Al-Hidiq is a Serial Entrepreneur and Tech-Geek at heart with more than 15 years of professional experience with a passion for startups.

Salah is the Founder and Managing Director of NOCC, a system integrator and network security solutions company; Co-founder and Partner in WebMisc., a Digital Marketing Agency; and Co-Founder of HeyDoc! a global and award winning healthcare revolution in the form of the Middle East’s first telemedicine platform that connects patients with Doctors via in app-advisory, benefiting from the latest communication technologies.

Ahmad’s Linkedin
Salah’s Linkedin
HeyDoc Website

Interview Questions

• Who is Ahmed Al Hidiq?
• What’s HeyDoc?
• Why did you start HeyDoc?
• What’s the app objective?
• How HeyDoc works?
• How to find the right Doctor?
• How to receive the consultant advise?
• Do you have an initial chat with the Doctor then you pay or you have to pay before you have any access to the doctor except for the profile?
• Is the advisory session is limited by certain time or messages?
• How much it cost?
• How much the Doctors % vs. the platform fees?
• How about if the patient is required an operation?
• What happens if the Doctor answers only once within the 12 hours time frame?
• What other benefits that motivates the doctors to be part of your platform?
• How the Doctor can generate leads through your app?
• Which regions you are currently serving?
• What’s the patients feedback?
• What’s the doctors feedback?
• What’s the award that HeyDoc won?
• Any plans to link it with insurance companies?
• Other ways that you monetize from?
• How do you work with corporates?
• How much money did you raise?
• How did you get introduced to Turn 8
• How much money did you rise so far?
• When the app was launched?
• Are you cashflow positive?
• Are you based or incubated at The Cribb?
• Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
• Share with us some of the tools or software that make you more efficient?
• What’s your daily life and work routine looks like?
• What’s one marketing strategy that helped you the most in developing your business?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What do you do to change your mood when you are depressed?
• What’s the best advice that you ever received?
• If you have the chance, what would you say to advice your younger self?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?
• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
• How people can contact you?

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(MANAGING DIRECTOR of DEV VC, he’s an Expert in VC Investments and Startups with focus on Technology and Entertainment)

How a VC Company Raises Capital for its Investments? What is the Usual Structure and Positions of a VC Company? MANAGING DIRECTOR vs. VENTURE PARTNER in a VC company?

How new Startups can Pitch Dev. to Raise Capital? How to Value Your Startup? What are the challenges to expand the VC and startup culture in the Middle East?

Video Interview

With English and Arabic Subtitle

Audio

Bio

Websites & Social Media Links

Interview Questions

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(The Founder & CEO of  Inbound LLC & Stationery Inc. Co-Founder at Amanah XData LLC and Formula World Sport)

The complete details about the Entrepreneurial journey of Walied Albasheer from India to Oman and then to Dubai? 

 How stationary.ae works as system and How Walied Albasheer managed to raise capital for the company, and more details Dubai startups like How much Incorporating a company in the BVI Costs on Annual Basis or which Accelerator or Incubator you have to Choose for your Startup 

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With English and Arabic Subtitle

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Bio

Walied is a fifth generation entrepreneur with career starting on 1995 when he was adviced by a college friend to “check the internet”. Walied then co-founded City Cyber Cafe in Pune, India in 1996. He exited from City Cyber Cafe in 1998 when co-founded www.cityshow.com in GCC starting from Oman, Leaving to Dubai Walied Joined the founding team for major government online intiative to promote commerce & tourism in UAE www.sharjahtourism.ae, He founded sharjahimage.com to be one of the first digital stock image library in the region.In 2003 he was a member of the founding tea, for Emirates InvestmentGroup a group turned 8 billion dirham multi acitivty business. In 2004 Walied Founded Techoz Ltd as international business company in Sechelles to transfere knowlegde to african countries. In 2006 Walied co-founded Formula World Sport as the first sport marketing agency in the region, taking it to global sucess by aquiring the execlusive world promotership for UIM F2 World Cup Powerboats chamionship. In 2007 Walied co-found xData proving real time market data feed from stock exchanges house, the company was later sold to Interactive Data a leader in financial information market.

Walied  Albasheeris an Intrapreneur turned entrepreneur after years of experience in E-business innovation, corporate strategy & startup management . Walied has significant exposure in Product Development, E-Business, Digital Media, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Transformation, Project Management, Enterprise Performance Management, Management Information System & Customer Relationship Management. Walied Albasheer have worked in UAE, GCC, Middle East, Europe & Far east, with industries such as government, tourism, hospitality, real estate, sports, events, finance, aviation, marketing agency . Executive Summary * Technically-sophisticated and business-savvy management professional with a pioneering career reflecting strong leadership qualities coupled with enormous experience. * Eminent leadership expertise with exemplary record in driving management methodologies and disciplines spanning estimation, contracting, project planning, risk management, progress tracking & analysis, report and other related factors. * Results-driven strategist, recognized for taking on major initiatives, adapting to rapidly changing environments and resolving mission-critical issues to ensure bottom-line success. * Management style characterized by a focus on discipline, prioritization, and keeping focus on mission critical objectives. * A visionary leader with good communication, team building and management, interpersonal & analytical skills.

Websites & Social Media Links

https://stationery.ae

https://www.facebook.com/Stationery.ae

https://www.facebook.com/walied.al.bahsser

https://twitter.com/waliedalbasheer

https://twitter.com/stationerydotae

https://www.linkedin.com/in/waliedalbasheer

Interview Questions

• What’s your background and why did you go to India?
• Will talk about your startups journeys then ask you to tell us how the new Entrepreneurs in Dubai should start their startup?
• How did you start your first Internet café venture, in 1996 and why did you exit from it?
• Brief us about your journey from India to Oman to Dubai?
• Tell us about your employment life in Dubai and what did you learn from heading the eBusiness at Sharjah Commerce & Tourism Development Authority
• Why did you quit the employment life into entrepreneurship?
• How did you end up in Sechelles in 2004? And what did you do?
• In 2006 you co-founded Formula World Sport as the first sport-marketing agency in the region, what was this company involved in and what happened to it later?
• Between 2008 and 2011 you worked as advisor at Enshaa PJSC and Emirates investment group, what these experiences have added to you?
• You founded Inbound LLC in 2011? Tell us about this company?
• How stationary.ae works?
• How did you raise capital for stationary.ae
• How much the web development of the stationay.ae cost you and which company implemented the development, and who does the continuous maintenance currently?
• Which one of all your startups you consider the most successful?
• How much incorporating a company in the BVI costs and how much then it cost on annual basis? And legal services or lawyers you recommend working with?
• How do you describe your experience with the Cribb and In5?
• Tell us about your involvement with Elance?
• What’s the first thing a new startup in Dubai should do? If you have the opportunity to do your journey in Dubai again how would you do it? Take us step by step through the process?
• Step by step how to start a startup in Dubai?
• What are the most areas that you struggle with when you start a startup?
• How to find the right cofounder for a startup?
• Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
• Share with us some of the tools or software that make you more efficient?
• What’s your daily life and work routine looks like? 
• What are your other hobbies?
• Who are your top 3 mentors?
• The most important factors for success in 3 words?
• What’s the biggest failure moment in your like?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What do you do to change your mood when you are depressed?
• What’s the best advice that you have ever received?
• What’s your favorite quote?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?
• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by? 
• What makes you really happy?
• How people can contact you?

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(Award-Winning Journalist, Author and Television Personality. Her Ventures include Deborah Inc., The Deborah Interviews Show, Robinson Omnimedia Studios & Publishing and Green Orchards. Her life’s passion is to Reveal and Communicate Truth through her work in the Media)

What’s the Future of TV?, How any Journalist can Finance his/her Media Work? How Licensing the Media Work Really Works?, Major steps to Follow to be Featured in TV

 The 5 most imporatant staff memebrs of any TV show and why?, How to make your Interviewees talk & open up about the most sensitive areas of their lives?

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Bio

“The best journalist in the State of Arkansas.”
MIKE HUCKABEE
FORMER ARKANSAS GOVERNOR
AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

“I love your energy. You’ve got the IT factor.”
ADAM STECK
SPI PRODUCTIONS – LAS VEGAS

“Oprah.”
VERNON WINFREY
OPRAH WINFREY’S FATHER

Deborah Robinson is an award-winning journalist, author, producer, documentary filmmaker, and television personality. Deborah’s strengths are investigative journalism, covering politics and religion and she has a niche for conducting lifestyle interviews. Her ability to engage guests on any topic keeps viewers tuned in. Deborah has been described as passionate, intriguing, dynamic, spontaneous, entertaining, challenging and intelligent. Deborah’s life passion is to reveal and communicate truth through her work in the media.

Deborah’s media work includes DEBORAH LIVE!, The DEBORAH Interviews Show, DEBORAH Interviews, DEBORAH @, DEBORAH’s Pen, DEBORAH’s Op-Ed, DEBORAH Presents, DEBORAH’s Docs, DEBORAH’s Charities, DEBORAH, Inc. As intriguing as her guests, Deborah is the new face of talk!

Deborah has a gift for interviewing with the special insight to ask questions of her guests that reveal life-changing answers. Her passionate approach to interviewing puts guests at ease, giving them the freedom to open up in the most sensitive areas of their lives. That’s where Deborah’s passion lies. Deborah’s personal desire to live her life to its fullest fuels her ability to empower and motivate guests and audience members to do the same.

While currently writing two BOOKS: Sins of My Father and Willing Bodies: Inside The UCLA Willed Body Program and ghost-writing another, Deborah is author, editor, ghost-writer and/or publisher of five additional books: Legal Briefs on Immigration Reform from 25 of the Top Legal Minds in the Country, Journey to Purpose: 31 Days of Faith Declarations, Daisy Bates: In Her Own Words, Lady Silverstone’s Darkest Hour and Conspired Redemption.

Deborah is a former lifestyle expert for At Home Las Vegas, the former anchor of Deborah Interviews on The Immigration Law Channel, a former contributor to Fresh Outlook Magazine and a former correspondent for Black Entertainment Television (BET) News, where she covered Arkansas news with special coverage of the first Presidential campaign of President Bill Clinton. Deborah also served as a Fellow to the Obama for America 2012 campaign where she worked in the media office for the State of Nevada.

Touted by former Arkansas Governor and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee as the best journalist in the State of Arkansas, Deborah spent her broadcast career in Little Rock covering local news, public affairs and politics. With a degree in Broadcast Journalism from The University of Arkansas at Little Rock and master’s degree studies in Journalism, her first job out of college was as News Director at a radio station. She soon moved to television as Program Director at a local cable channel, becoming at that time the youngest station manager in the country.

As producer and host of Real Story, Arkansas’ first newsmagazine show, Deborah interviewed diverse newsmakers from David Duke to Louis Farrakhan. As producer and host of Meet the Candidates, Deborah interviewed every candidate for every elected office in Little Rock, from Justice of the Peace to the Gubernatorial race. Deborah also executive produced and moderated the only primary debate for Governor Bill Clinton’s second run for Arkansas Governor.

Deborah has won several awards for her news and public affairs coverage, including the cable industry’s prestigious Crystal Award, a regional award from VH-1 and a national award from the Arts & Entertainment Channel.

Deborah founded Robinson Omnimedia & Studios and shortly thereafter moved to Nashville to executive produce The Deborah Interviews Show, a lifestyle television talk show. The show ran five times a week for four years on the national digital network, iLifeTV, reaching more than 7 million homes on more than 2,500 cable systems in 49 states. The show also aired on the Inspiration Network International, broadcasting to more than 42 million international homes once a week. The Deborah Interviews Show also had short runs on the WB and FOX networks in Nashville.

As executive producer of several television shows, Deborah has been directly responsible for every aspect of producing television, including show content, staffing, raising FINANCES, and ad sales. Deborah has developed creative producing skills for product placement, where products and services are seamlessly integrated into television programs and she has perfected the craft of bartering, where she uses creative trading methods that significantly reduce bottom line production and operating expenses.

As a host and television personality, Deborah’s strengths are investigative journalism, politics and religion and she has a niche for conducting lifestyle interviews. Her ability to engage in lively, unrehearsed, in-depth and interactive discussions with any guest on any topic keeps viewers watching and keeps audiences in their seats. Deborah has been described as passionate, intriguing, dynamic, spontaneous, entertaining, challenging and intelligent.

Deborah now brings her business, media, marketing, and television experience full circle with her media work based in Las Vegas. Her life’s passion and purpose is to reveal and communicate truth through her work in the media.

Website & Social Media

https://thenewfaceoftalk.com/

https://twitter.com/deborahoped

https://www.facebook.com/DeborahTV

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahinc

https://www.youtube.com/user/theDIshow

Books

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Interview Questions

• How did you start your career in Media, what’s your background and where did you study?
• What’s your current focus in the media world and why?
• Which media channel you prefer to publish your content?
• Do you keep the rights to your contents when you have an agreement with a TV show or in most cases they own the content rights?
• Share with us the techniques that you use to research the guests that you interview?
• How to make your guests talk about and open up in the most sensitive areas of their lives?
• From your experiance how many staff are required to start a TV show on TV?
• The 5 most imporatant staff memebrs of any TV show and why?
• How to pitch and attract sponsors to a TV show?
• How any Journalist can finance his/her media work?
• Share with us some of your main strategies that you have used in FINANCING your media projects?
• Do you license some of your media work? How it works?
• What are the new things that you learned from working in Obama for America 2012 campaign?
• The main differances that you found between working in the Radio and TV industries?
• How to be features in the Radio?
• Major steps to follow to be featured in TV?
• Do you provide a service to feature your clients in the media?
• Many people are making their on Web TV shows, what are the stpes that they should follow to take their show into Tv by signing a contract with a TV channel?
• How to find an agent or distributor to pitch a TV show to differnt channels?
• Legal things to worry about in case of licencing a web Tv show to TV station or distributor?
• Tell us about your writing journey, the books that you wrote and you coming books?
• Did you publish or self-publish your books? Why and how’s your experience with self-published books?
• How much you charge for your ghostwriting service?
• How do you write efficiently?
• What’s your daily life and work routine looks like? 
• Who’s your no.1 mentor?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What are your top 3 favorite BOOKS?
• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by? 
• What makes you really happy?
• How people can contact you?

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(Business Strategist, Media Contributor, and Expert in Raising Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, and the New York Times Best Selling Author of The Entrepreneur Equation Book)

The Strategies that Helped The Entrepreneur Equation book to Hit the New York Times Best Selling List?

What’s the difference between a Jobbie, a Job and a Business? What’s The difference between Financial and Strategic Buyers? What is FIRED-UP? What’s the M&A process? Tips about Investments, Acquisitions, Exit Strategies, Media Strategies, How to put the right Valuation for a Company

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Carol Roth is a national media personality, ‘recovering’ investment banker, investor, speaker and author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Entrepreneur Equation. She is currently an on-air contributor for the national cable television station CNBC, the preeminent name in business news. Carol’s multimedia commentary covers business and the economy, current events, politics and pop culture topics.

Previously, Carol was the host of The Noon Show, a current events talk show on WGN Radio and prior to joining CNBC, Carol was seen weekly on a variety of national television outlets including Fox Business, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.

Carol has worked with hundreds of companies, ranging from a single entrepreneur with an idea to Fortune 500 businesses, on all aspects of business and financial strategy. Collectively, she has helped her clients raise more than $1 billion in capital, complete $750+ million in mergers and acquisitions, secure high-profile licensing and partnership deals and create 7-figure brand loyalty programs.

Carol Roth is a Expert in Raising Capital and Acquisitions, Business Strategist, and New York Times Best Selling Author of the book The Entrepreneur Equation

Websites & Social Media Links 

https://www.carolroth.com/

https://twitter.com/caroljsroth

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-roth/b/376/653

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carol-Roth-The-Entrepreneur-Equation/133522800041844

Books

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(Business Coach who helps Entrepreneurs Believe in their Dreams and Act on them by Building their Dream Business to Achieve their Goals, he’s also a Marketing and Publicity Strategist)

How Evan is getting Paid for His Radio Show in Advance from Some Brands

Should you Bootstrap Your Business or Raise Capital from VC and Angel Investors?

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With English and Arabic Subtitle

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Evan Carmichael helps entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22 he was a venture capitalist helping raise between $500,000 and $15 million. He now runs EvanCarmichael.com, one of the world’s most popular websites for entrepreneurs. His goal is to help 1 billion entrepreneurs. He has helped set 2 world records, works 20 hours per week, uses a stand-up desk, rides a Vespa, raises funds for Kiva, and created a line of Entrepreneur trading cards. He graduated from the University of Toronto and enjoys salsa dancing, being a DJ, and the Toronto Blue Jays.

Websites & Social Media Links 

Books

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Interview Questions

• When you started as Entrepreneur and what’s your background?
• Why you sold your biotech company at age 22? Why you didn’tkeep it and kept generating passive income in case of automating its operations?
• What’s your strategy to achieve your vision of helping 1 billion entrepreneurs? I guess it’s a strategy that needs to continue after you die for hundred of years till the world first have 1 billion entrepreneurs?
• Best tips to raise capital from angel investors?
• Best tips to raise capital from a VC?
• Do you help entrepreneurs raise capital, if yes how?
• Are you still an Investor (Angel or VC)
• What’s Kiva and your main role in it?
• I love the motivational and inspirational videos that you share, do you edit some of them yourself?
• Can you share your video editor name?
• Where do you record and publish your radio show?
• What’s your social media strategy and how do you use it to generate more leads?
• Share with us some of your key strategies to build engagement for some brands?
• Which PR companies or techniques do you use for the brands that you help to generate more publicity?
• Facebook or Twitter and why?
• How your twitter chat system works?
• What are The 5 step process to getting tangible results from social media.
• Your top 3 strategies to get paid speaking engagements?
• How many team members are working with you on your projectsor marketing company, how many of them are offline and how many are outsourced?
• What are the major services that you offer and how do you structure its cost for your clients? How much you charge for 1:1 consultation or consultation for companies?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• How people can contact you?

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(General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital, Founder of i360accelerator for Startups, President & CEO of Innovation 360 Institute and Managing Director of Turn8 a seed accelerator program initiated by DP World)

How the Process of Startups Acceleration Works? And the Investment in Technology Startups will Lead us to a new Bubble?

How General Partners and Advisors at a VC Firm get Paid? What’s the Difference between a VC and Private Equity? What are the Different Levels of Investments? 

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Kamal Hassan is General Partner at Fenox Venture Capital, based out of Dubai office and leading the operations in the Middle East. He is a 20-year veteran of the business world with expertise in corporate strategy, innovation management, performance excellence, as well as startup development and growth.

Concurrent to his role at Fenox, Kamal is founder, President and CEO of Dubai-based Innovation 360, a global innovation management firm. As an active supporter of startups and SMEs, Kamal has invested in 19 startups through regional seed funding programs. He is the driving force behind i360accelerator, a 120-day accelerator program for startups, as well as a Managing Director for TURN8, a seed accelerator program organized by DP World.

Websites & Social Media Links 

https://i360accelerator.com/

https://i360institute.com/

https://thecribb.co/

https://www.turn8.co/

https://fenoxvc.com/

https://www.facebook.com/i360accelerator

https://www.facebook.com/AtTheCribb

https://twitter.com/Innovation360

https://www.facebook.com/kamal.hassan.56

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamal12hassan

Interview Questions

• How did you do the transition from biology & genetics to startups & investments?
• Why you decided to come to Dubai and develop the startup community in Dubai?
• Why & How the Turn8 project started by DP world?
• What’s the difference between i360accelator & DP World’s seed accelerator Turn8? And the Cribb?
• How the process of the acceleration works?
• Do the startups need to open a company to be listed in the Cribb?
• Which criteria you use to select startups at the Cribb or Turn8?
• What’s the percentage of startups that you choose from the total applied companies?
• What happens after the graduation of the startups? Do you introduce them to VCs or Angel Investors?
• What’s the most successful startup in terms of net profit that came through the Cribb or Turn8 program?
• What are the major challenges that you are facing with the new startups in the region?
• What are the major challenges for the startups in Dubai?
• Is there’s a real environment of Angel Investors in Dubai? Is the startup market is mature enough?
• How different is the VC & Angel Investing world between the Middle East and the US?
• What’s the difference between a VC and Private Equity Firm?
• You are a general partner at Fenox Venture Capital, what’s the usual structure of a VC company? What does partner or general partner means?
• How those principals, general partners, advisors get paid?
• How do you select the general partner or advisor in your VC?
• What are the different series of investment Example what you call Series A up to the IPO?
• On which criteria would you choose the right IPO market for a Startup or company?
• How somebody can pitch Fenox for investment? It can be an early stage startup or after the Angel round?
• What’s the system that startups follow to put a value for their startup? Don’t you think these values are exaggerated most of the time?
• Do you think this focus in investing in technology will lead us to a bubble?
• How about the offline or physical products project which is representing more than 90% of the projects in the world? Do you or Fenox or the Cribb invest in?
• How the consultancy services of the innovation 360 works? Do you provide 1:1 coaching?
• What’s your personal portfolio of investments?
• How a startup can pitch you?
• Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
• Take us through your typical working day?
• What are your other hobbies?
• 3 things that you believe are the most important factors for any success?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?
• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by? 
• What are the things that make you happy?
• How people can contact you?

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 (Entrepreneur & Technology Evangelist, Co-Founder and CEO of Ta3rifa)

How to Raise Money for Your Startup in Dubai and Register it Offshore

How to Start a Company in Dubai without Paying any fees for the Trade License

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Ismail Issa is an Entrepreneur & technology Evangelist, he’s the co-founder and CEO of Ta3rifa a (customer loyalty system and marketing tool), and several other technology startups,

As an Entrepreneur, Issa is also is the co-founder of variety of technology related startups as:
MoCCA: Stands for “Mobile Creative Communication Architecture” is an innovative idea for telecommunication project. The idea is based on the integration of different telecom technologies in one solution. It is composed of an affiliation of 3 major components (SMS/MMS, Fax and Email services) with a fourth component (Voice) to follow in the second stage.
vGate: A java-based platform for creating a collaborative and interactive 3D virtual worlds to deliver web-based solutions which will create a fully interactive virtual e-malls or e-institutes.
FilSekka: A social-based activities and location platform which yields to smartly gives you the easiest access to you favorite locations through your mood, favorites and friends preferences.

This besides a SoLoMo (Social-Location-Mobile); a Dubai based start-up which aims to implement a unique and innovative approach for loyalty and incentives solution for the first time in UAE and MENA region.

Websites & Social Media Links

 https://www.ta3rifah.com/

https://www.facebook.com/ta3rifah

https://about.me/iissa

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismailissa

https://www.facebook.com/ismail.eissa

https://twitter.com/egcoder

Interview Questions

• What is ta3refah and how its started as an idea?
• How did you raise capital for your idea?
• Are you planning to raise more?
• What are the ways that you used to raise capital for your dream
project?
• What are the other ways that you know or recommend to raise capital
for new startups?
• I see that Ta3rifah was listed in many famous media channels, how
did you do that?
• Did you work on any other startups before?
• Optimum is one of the companies that you founded, is it a web
services company?
• What is the in5 providing you as new startup in terms of services or
support?
• What are the other similar places to the in5 in dubai?
• Take us through your typical working day?
• What are the current challenges that you are facing as startup?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the main challenges for the startups in dubai?
• How many co-founders and employees are currently with you?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What’s your advice to the new startups?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?

• What are the best startups competitions in the region?

• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
• What are the things that makes you happy?
• How people can find you or contact you?

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(CEO of Scense, Managing Partner of 247 Invest Venture Capital)

How to Successfully Get Investments and Mentoring to Launch Your Start Ups and The Differences Between Raising Capital In the US, Europe and the Middle East

The Differences Between Raising Capital from Angle Investors, Incubators and VCs

Video Interview

With English and Arabic Subtitle

Audio

Bio

Sacha Vekeman is the Managing Partner of 24/7 invest Venture Capital, board member and co-founder of different companies in various fields, he’s also a mentor for many startups and big companies. He is the CEO at Scense, which is a fast growing software company. Sacha has more than 15 years of experience in large multinational corporations, technology startups and high-growth companies.

Websites & Social Media Links

https://www.247invest.net/

https://www.scense.com/

https://qamira.com/

Interview Questions

• What’s the main focus of 247 in terms of regions and industries?

• What’s the portfolio of the companies that you have invested in?

• At what stage of investment 247 get involved, early stage,
profitable companies, other stages?

• Did you go public with any of the companies that you invested in?

• Can you tell more about your background before getting involved
in the VC world? And how did you get involved in it?

• Do you personally invest out of 247 or all your investments goes
through 247?

• As you are a partner in a VC firm, means you like to have control
in the companies that you invest in, do you still like to Angel Invest in different companies and have no control over it?

• How many partners & employees you have in 247?

• What’s the major role of each employee of a typical VC
company? As many people think that the VC job is so easy and
relaxing?

• What’s the success rate of the companies that you or your
companies have invested in?

• How somebody can pitch you? And what are the things that you
want to see in a pitch?

• What’s iMinds, can you please clarify your major role in it?

• What’s the difference between Private Equity & Venture Capital?

• In financing & fundraising, what’s the difference between selling
technology (customer model and selling shares/stock (investment
model)?

• How to valuate a new startup? How many ways are out there to
put a value for a new startup?

• What are the companies that you have invested in, in the Middle
East?

• Do you get involved in the company trade license or you open an
offshore company?

• What are the challenges that you face in the Middle East in terms
of finding or working with new investors or startups?

• Why most of the Angel Investors or VCs now days are focused
more on the fashion of the Technology & Online Startups, how
about the Offline Startups?

• Why all the investing concept is built around capital gain and
exiting the investment, how about cash flow? • Can you recommend some Angel Investors or VCs that works
with the offline or online industries?

• What are the other ways that you know or recommend to raise
capital for new startups?

• How much is the salary of the VC members, is true that most of
them are employees

• What are the services that you provide through Prosquare?

• Take us through your typical working day?

• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?

• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay
efficient?

• What are your top 3 favorite books?

• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?

• What are the things that make you happy?

• How people can find you or contact you?

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