I am starting this series of posts sharing what I’ve been doing in the last few years; what I've learned and how I screwed up. Hopefully, it will all add up in the end and show me a direction.
Why should you read this? A. See if you can relate to it B. Learn something new C. Maybe it’ll encourage you to dive into an unusual opportunity and D. Learn from my F*cking mistakes bec. am not gonna publicly embarrass myself for nothing!
At a point in time, I was a freelance writer at G Mag.
Read MoreI am starting this series of posts sharing what I’ve been doing in the last few years; what I've learned and how I screwed up. Hopefully, it will all add up in the end and show me a direction.
Why should you read this? A. See if you can relate to it B. Learn something new C. Maybe it’ll encourage you to dive into an unusual opportunity and D. Learn from my F*cking mistakes bec. am not gonna publicly embarrass myself for nothing!
At a point in time, I wanted to document Made In Egypt products
Read MoreI am starting this series of posts sharing what I’ve been doing in the last few years; what I've learned and how I screwed up. Hopefully, it will all add up in the end and show me a direction.
Why should you read this? A. See if you can relate to it B. Learn something new C. Maybe it’ll encourage you to dive into an unusual opportunity and D. Learn from my F*cking mistakes bec. am not gonna publicly embarrass myself for nothing!
At a point in time, I was a Secret Shopper!
Read MoreIn part one of how to find great craftsmen in Egypt and Get the job done, we’ve gone over the basis of your design quest and that was the time-consuming part. Once you set your priorities and get to know the nits and grits of the process you’re after, it will all fall into place. The next two –or maybe three- steps are for designers who are trying to implement new designs or have a bit more complicated designs.
Read MoreNew year, new beginnings! Early January marked the end of my experience at Reform Studio where I worked as a product designer for the last year. Reform is a design studio in Cairo that designs furniture products from an interwoven plastic textile-like material made out of plastic bags.
In this post I’ll share one of the major takeaways from my experience in Reform Studio. Using my experience as a case study, I came up with a set of steps on how to find great craftsmen in Egypt and get the job done!
Read MoreIn my previous post I talked about how you would probably be the first at founding a new, fill in the blank, in Egypt and how awesome that is. But as you might have guessed from the title, being the first or having those 'don't count' competitors also has its drawbacks. If they were not avoided, being the first would become your weakness rather than your strength. Did you think life was that simple!
This applies to startups in general; it's not specifically just in Egypt but pretty much everywhere. I've had the chance to work in several startups that are all leaders in one thing or another, and from my work experience I've noticed two main drawbacks.
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