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I had a really fun morning today. I was invited to the Muharraq Secondary Girls School to talk about entrepreneurship and my business experience. The girls I spoke to were enrolled in InJaz’s “company” programme. Basically, they are part of a pretend company. They even have departments (production, marketing, PR, finance and HR). The programme [...] [...more]
This was the third question that I was asked by a participant at a recent entrepreneurship event, and I thought it was a great question! I’ll give you a short answer, and a slightly longer answer. First the short answer: no, you don’t need to be an expert in a field to start a business [...] [...more]
This was the second question that I was asked by a pretty attentive participant at the “start up circuit” a couple of weeks ago, which was part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). Here’s my take on this: it’s good to have a slogan, but not vital. It is by far more important to have [...] [...more]
Just a quick note, as I forgot to post this last week. Shaima Al-Ansari spent a day with me last week. Here’s the press release I sent out: A Bahraini lady has received a one-day “CEO for a day” mentorship training from one of Bahrain’s most well-known entrepreneurs. Shaima Al-Ansari, spent a whole day with [...] [...more]
On a blog post I wrote last week, I spoke about some of the questions I got at the Global Entrepreneurship Week. If you recall, I mentioned that I was asked lots of questions on marketing and entrepreneurship. One of the participants, Osman Safdar, a university student, came prepared with four excellent marketing questions. I [...] [...more]
Yesterday concluded Global Entrepreneurship Week here in Bahrain, which has been running since Sunday. The Key note speaker was Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa, creator of The 99 comic book series. The world’s first comic inspired by Islam. He gave a great talk about his experience in creating the concept, and the mistakes he made along the [...] [...more]
I had a really fun evening the night before last. I participated in The Global Entrepreneurship Week Start Up Circuit. I really liked the concept; The Bahrain chapter of Young Arab Leaders, the organisers, brought in different experts and specialists to help budding entrepreneurs start businesses. Each one of them gave a 10 minute presentation [...] [...more]
Welcome to another blog post in the series of how to create effective adverts. This is what we’ve covered so far: 1) The importance of direct response advertising (how to commit small marketing suicide) 2) How to write advertising headlines that can make you rich. 3) How to pointlessly burn your advertising money. 4) The [...] [...more]
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is a global event which focuses on the benefits of entrepreneurship, and helps aspiring entrepreneurs to get ideas, advice and financing. GEW helps them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. Students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, employees, non-profit leaders, government officials and many others participated in a range of activities, from [...] [...more]
This week’s interview is a follow up from last week, where Kevin and I spoke about preparing CV’s. This week we’ve turned the tables; you’ll hear me talking about how to hire great people. I have to admit, I think this is the messiest Krazy Kevin interview I’ve ever done, because I was really tired [...] [...more]
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