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Sheikh Youssef Al Shelash on the Benefits of 3D Construction 

The Startup Magazine

As the chairman of Dar Al Arkan , Sheikh Yousef Al Shelash is leading the Saudi Arabia-based property development company into the future by embracing cutting-edge technology. The 3DCP (3D concrete process) involves a printhead supported by an agile massive frame structure.

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Bringing Lean Startup to Life at GE

Startup Lessons Learned

In a career that has moved from GE to NBC Universal and back to GE, she has brought technological innovation and agile business techniques to two of the US’s biggest legacy corporations. Beth is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at GE, but her work defies the standard understanding of big corporate business.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Seeing Is Believing. Berkeley peers got in Steve’s class.

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Simple Lessons In Never Giving Up

Duct Tape Marketing

Some of these little nuggets along the way on things like, you know, courage and perseverance and agility and overcoming adversity and things like that. They had to, basically, they were treated like Saudi women, which is essentially property, you know, at the time. And so I share with humor a little self-deprecation going on there.

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This I Believe: A Manifesto for a Magnificent Career

Occam's Razor

My professional career spans three countries: India, Saudi Arabia and the United States. The web demands immense agility and flexibility within every company. The web has broken down traditional job silos in companies.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

Currently he’s thinking Chile, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Portugal and Brazil. When times get tough, startup founders might want to check what I call the “P-List” that Whitehill and Stavros Messinis, the co-founder of CoLab Athens, put together of lessons American startups can learn from their Greek counterparts: Persevere. Partnerships.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

Currently he’s thinking Chile, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Portugal and Brazil. Ignore the odds; be a survivor. Stop being risk-averse; instead, embrace the risk. Remember, they can’t eat you. Proactiveness. Try to know what’s to come, and address it beforehand. Partnerships. Proficiency.