In ancient history, the Fertile Crescent extended from lower Egypt, through modern-day Israel and into Assyria and Mesopotamia. Thanks to the waterways, population density, and diversity of peoples, it was characterized by an unparalleled flow of goods and services and intellectual foment. MORE
I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. We challenged Vaynerchuk--co-owner of wine retailer Wine Library, CEO of the social-media strategy firm VaynerMedia, and (he's set on it) future owner of the New York Jets--to speak freely. Not a problem. MORE
Then in 2011, during the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, one million people downloaded the company''s free app HotSpot Shield in 24 hours to bypass government censorship of the Internet. With 200 million users around the world and 250,000 new users signing up every day, HotSpot Shield is the reason protesters from Egypt, Turkey, Thailand, China, and now Venezuela have been able to access Twitter. MORE
Without the Internet, and social media in particular, Hosni Mubarak would still be running Egypt, Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafi would still be alive and, well, Wall Street would never have been occupied. The cost of starting a business today is lower than ever. MORE
Here were some of my takeaways from visiting Egypt for the first time. “There was no Egypt for the couple years after the revolution of 2011,” one local told me. During these years of tumult, the civic institutions of Egypt eroded. Egypt will be part of this story. MORE
During the revolution in Egypt, he tweeted "Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. When you''re using a Facebook page to build your brand, be sure not to make any of these egregious mistakes. Have you ever seen the Condescending Corporate Brand Page ? If not, check it out right now. MORE
To date, the Internet has been an incredible force for entrepreneurship and positive change throughout the world (did anyone notice what recently happened in Egypt?) MORE
And speaking of balance, it was wonderful to find many personal connections, like two of us who had sons obsessed by World War II and Egypt. MORE
Israel Minister: No Change to Egypt Deal Israels foreign minister said Israel would not agree to re-evaluate its peace deal with Egypt. Meanwhile, an Egypt-based, al Qaeda-inspired group claimed responsibility for Fridays attack along the border. Facebook. Twitter. WSJ Live. WSJ Live. MarketWatch. MarketWatch. Barrons. Barrons. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Factiva. Factiva. BigCharts. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. MORE
I’ve had similar conversations about bringing entrepreneurship to Egypt, where starting a company is considered a low-class occupation. MORE
If you wanted to go see the Pyramids of Egypt you are probably going to need help. If you want to get the best out of your content and have fallen short then consider influencer marketing. MORE
For example, when I needed a bunch of snail mail addresses inside a bunch of emails converted into a spreadsheet, it took me exactly five seconds to locate a very intelligent and helpful worker--a woman in Egypt who was willing to do it for far less than I would have paid for a local worker, if I could have even found one willing to take on such a short-term project. Some startups seem destined to create big winners and big losers. Here are five of them. MORE
During a creative lull he escaped to Egypt and lived a wild, crazy life. Hammering away at your desk is doing nothing for your creative juices. MORE
Whatever their eventual path and outcomes – I would argue that their impact on Iran, Tunisia & Egypt – and frankly on the way that we as a society communicate now – has rendered them one of the most important technologies of the past decade. MORE
The United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia use them to protect their borders. IOMAX USA Inc., based in Mooresville, modifies crop dusters into surveillance planes fortified with such weapons as Hellfire missiles. MORE
In Egypt's app store, for example, six of the top 10 free social networking apps are VoIP apps Sweden seems to be the home of VoIP apps. Skype can arguably be traced back to Sweden, Rebtel is bigger than most everyone realizes, and Plingm is tackling the huge growing markets. MORE
Mesopotamian entrepreneurs prospered by expanding their landlocked trade routes east to the Indus Valley (modern-day India) and west to Egypt and beyond. MORE
During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. MORE
Well, I was going for the analogy of “my friend, have I got a deal for you” that you get at a bazaar in Egypt or a stall in Mexico. This is my third post in a series on Enterprise Software. MORE
Since the first uprisings in Egypt last January and February, the folks behind Bambuser have been in email contact with a core group of initial Bambuser users to see what they could do to improve their service. MORE
You’ll tweet about uprisings in Egypt while she shares pictures of Louis Vuitton’s finest products. I attended a Machine Learning meetup at Twitter yesterday. It was a very good event, and I learned a few new things. MORE
He has worked with clients such as AT&T, the Governments of Indonesia and Egypt and the Washington public affairs firm of Cassidy and Associates. Foreign Service Officer, and served as the Agricultural Attaché to Egypt. He was also chief negotiator for the 1987 PL-480 agreement with Egypt. Also Available On. Show Summary. Today we talk with Jim Coyle on: “is the recession over yet?” ” Jim’s response may be a bit hard to hear, yet eyeopening. MORE
On the innovation blog Indonesia and volcanic power Hubble at 20 MIT Tech Review – Top 10 technologies More innovation from left field (from Egypt and Togolese Republic MORE
And while the concept of Tunisia and Egypt being ‘Twitter” revolutions is over-stated, it is true that easy media connectivity has greatly accelerated organized action on long-held social and political discontents. It is young people with qualities like this that are changing Egypt. MORE
Twitter and Facebook helped birth Arab Spring uprisings in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria by giving citizens a measure of control over media. Why Bitcoin could become "the currency of social revolution," why the FBI wants criminals to use Bitcoin, and more. MORE
Airways plane that landed in the Hudson River, or the uprisings in Egypt). If those 140 characters seem daunting, here are a few things to think about. One of the Golden Rules of Twitter is that you ought to "Give before you get." MORE
But we're also seeing a lot more interest from India and Brazil, along with countries like Egypt and Venezuela that have been going through political upheavals." Recently renewed by President Obama, the EB-5 Visa program links entrepreneurs to foreign investors. MORE
And they have been selling these systems to other countries (Iran, Syria, Egypt, etc.). The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. The threat is here it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. MORE
James Barood with the Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurship at Fairleigh Dickinson University's. Silberman College of Business offers some rather harsh words for family business patriarchs in a column at Business Insider: There are millions of Hosni Mubaraks. Most lead family businesses, not nations. Mubarak ruled over 80 million people, while these business founders may preside. over dozens, hundreds, or even thousands. Collectively, though, they may hurt as. MORE
Egypt , Copenhagen, Tanzania (safari!), San Francisco is an amazing place to live in. But there’s so much in the world to see and so many interesting opportunities elsewhere that travel has become a big part of my personal and professional life. 2015 began for me in Maui. MORE
My client handled the whole thing with aplomb, fortified by a decade of immersion in the distinctive culture and language of Egypt and the Arab world. What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway? Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.) MORE
He leads the Israelites out of slavery from Egypt (nice vision!) I was in synagogue last weekend for a cousin's bat mitzvah and was struck by the entrepreneurial lessons from the weekly Torah portion. MORE
Think Tunia, Egypt, Syria and now Turkey. I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. Kudos. The 20-minute video of my presentation is here if you’re interested. MORE
I wrote a research paper on Egypt''s economy in college for an ec- development course. More alarming is that there are 80 mil people along the thin stretch of the River Nile, and Egypt cannot provide them with jobs and infrastructure. From QZ.com - What’s really behind Egypt’s turmoil. MORE
In around 2002 I was stuck in my hotel room in Egypt due to food poisoning and the only English TV available was an American business channel. Coindesk just published their quarterly ‘ State of Bitcoin ‘ presentation. MORE
Egypt, of course. While traveling to Africa a few weeks ago, I read Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux. Theroux is probably America’s most famous travel writer yet I had not read any of his books until now. MORE
editors and writers discuss the exodus of East Coast high school dropouts to Silicon Valley, a T-shirt startup that's trying to save Egypt's luxury cotton industry, and the new rock memoir Your Band Sucks This week, Inc. MORE
She sold everything she had, paid off all her debts and left the UK with £10,000, which she promptly lost on a property investment deal gone bad in Egypt. Michelle was "trapped" in Egypt due to not having enough money to leave, so began researching internet business options. She hacked together a website using Dreamweaver and Frontpage software, slowly built up her clientele and also met her future husband and became pregnant, all while living in Egypt for two years. MORE
Egypt: Multinational. If there’s one word most people describe themselves with professionally, it’s creative. MORE
One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3. They represent more than 10,000 people total. If you're not attending the conference in person, consider meeting up with one of these groups to watch. MORE
I’ve had similar conversations about bringing entrepreneurship to Egypt, where starting a company is considered a low-class occupation. MORE
“The danger is to take all this information, to watch in Tahrir Square and say, ‘we know what’s happening in Egypt.’” Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal explains how to be fast--and smart--about the way that you act. In 2003, Gen. MORE
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DECEMBER 17, 2015
Here were some of my takeaways from visiting Egypt for the first time. “There was no Egypt for the couple years after the revolution of 2011,” one local told me. During these years of tumult, the civic institutions of Egypt eroded. Egypt will be part of this story.
Chaganomics
AUGUST 24, 2013
I wrote a research paper on Egypt''s economy in college for an ec- development course. More alarming is that there are 80 mil people along the thin stretch of the River Nile, and Egypt cannot provide them with jobs and infrastructure. From QZ.com - What’s really behind Egypt’s turmoil.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
James Barood with the Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurship at Fairleigh Dickinson University's. Silberman College of Business offers some rather harsh words for family business patriarchs in a column at Business Insider: There are millions of Hosni Mubaraks. Most lead family businesses, not nations. Mubarak ruled over 80 million people, while these business founders may preside. over dozens, hundreds, or even thousands. Collectively, though, they may hurt as.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
FEBRUARY 18, 2017
The United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia use them to protect their borders. IOMAX USA Inc., based in Mooresville, modifies crop dusters into surveillance planes fortified with such weapons as Hellfire missiles.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 14, 2014
In around 2002 I was stuck in my hotel room in Egypt due to food poisoning and the only English TV available was an American business channel. Coindesk just published their quarterly ‘ State of Bitcoin ‘ presentation.
Steve Blank
JULY 2, 2015
During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners.
Ben Casnocha: The Blog
JANUARY 18, 2016
Egypt , Copenhagen, Tanzania (safari!), San Francisco is an amazing place to live in. But there’s so much in the world to see and so many interesting opportunities elsewhere that travel has become a big part of my personal and professional life. 2015 began for me in Maui.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 9, 2013
Think Tunia, Egypt, Syria and now Turkey. I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. Kudos. The 20-minute video of my presentation is here if you’re interested.
Diego Basch
AUGUST 23, 2012
You’ll tweet about uprisings in Egypt while she shares pictures of Louis Vuitton’s finest products. I attended a Machine Learning meetup at Twitter yesterday. It was a very good event, and I learned a few new things.
Mike Michalowicz
AUGUST 1, 2016
He has worked with clients such as AT&T, the Governments of Indonesia and Egypt and the Washington public affairs firm of Cassidy and Associates. Foreign Service Officer, and served as the Agricultural Attaché to Egypt. He was also chief negotiator for the 1987 PL-480 agreement with Egypt. Also Available On. Show Summary. Today we talk with Jim Coyle on: “is the recession over yet?” ” Jim’s response may be a bit hard to hear, yet eyeopening.
Seeing Both Sides
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
He leads the Israelites out of slavery from Egypt (nice vision!) I was in synagogue last weekend for a cousin's bat mitzvah and was struck by the entrepreneurial lessons from the weekly Torah portion.
Inc Startups
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
During a creative lull he escaped to Egypt and lived a wild, crazy life. Hammering away at your desk is doing nothing for your creative juices.
Inc Startups
MAY 8, 2014
Then in 2011, during the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, one million people downloaded the company''s free app HotSpot Shield in 24 hours to bypass government censorship of the Internet. With 200 million users around the world and 250,000 new users signing up every day, HotSpot Shield is the reason protesters from Egypt, Turkey, Thailand, China, and now Venezuela have been able to access Twitter.
Ben Casnocha: The Blog
AUGUST 25, 2015
Egypt, of course. While traveling to Africa a few weeks ago, I read Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux. Theroux is probably America’s most famous travel writer yet I had not read any of his books until now.
Growthink Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
And while the concept of Tunisia and Egypt being ‘Twitter” revolutions is over-stated, it is true that easy media connectivity has greatly accelerated organized action on long-held social and political discontents. It is young people with qualities like this that are changing Egypt.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2012
One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3. They represent more than 10,000 people total. If you're not attending the conference in person, consider meeting up with one of these groups to watch.
Steve Blank
JULY 29, 2016
And they have been selling these systems to other countries (Iran, Syria, Egypt, etc.). The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. The threat is here it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier.
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2016
If you wanted to go see the Pyramids of Egypt you are probably going to need help. If you want to get the best out of your content and have fallen short then consider influencer marketing.
Inc Startups
JUNE 5, 2013
During the revolution in Egypt, he tweeted "Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. When you''re using a Facebook page to build your brand, be sure not to make any of these egregious mistakes. Have you ever seen the Condescending Corporate Brand Page ? If not, check it out right now.
Inc Startups
MAY 22, 2015
editors and writers discuss the exodus of East Coast high school dropouts to Silicon Valley, a T-shirt startup that's trying to save Egypt's luxury cotton industry, and the new rock memoir Your Band Sucks This week, Inc.
ReadWriteStart
JULY 6, 2012
I’ve had similar conversations about bringing entrepreneurship to Egypt, where starting a company is considered a low-class occupation.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 15, 2013
Well, I was going for the analogy of “my friend, have I got a deal for you” that you get at a bazaar in Egypt or a stall in Mexico. This is my third post in a series on Enterprise Software.
Inc Startups
MAY 3, 2012
Airways plane that landed in the Hudson River, or the uprisings in Egypt). If those 140 characters seem daunting, here are a few things to think about. One of the Golden Rules of Twitter is that you ought to "Give before you get."
ArcticStartup
DECEMBER 7, 2011
Since the first uprisings in Egypt last January and February, the folks behind Bambuser have been in email contact with a core group of initial Bambuser users to see what they could do to improve their service.
deal architect
APRIL 24, 2010
On the innovation blog Indonesia and volcanic power Hubble at 20 MIT Tech Review – Top 10 technologies More innovation from left field (from Egypt and Togolese Republic
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 4, 2012
Egypt: Multinational. If there’s one word most people describe themselves with professionally, it’s creative.
Inc Startups
MARCH 13, 2012
Without the Internet, and social media in particular, Hosni Mubarak would still be running Egypt, Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafi would still be alive and, well, Wall Street would never have been occupied. The cost of starting a business today is lower than ever.
Seeing Both Sides
JUNE 16, 2011
In ancient history, the Fertile Crescent extended from lower Egypt, through modern-day Israel and into Assyria and Mesopotamia. Thanks to the waterways, population density, and diversity of peoples, it was characterized by an unparalleled flow of goods and services and intellectual foment.
Inc Startups
APRIL 22, 2014
“The danger is to take all this information, to watch in Tahrir Square and say, ‘we know what’s happening in Egypt.’” Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal explains how to be fast--and smart--about the way that you act. In 2003, Gen.
Escape From Cubicle Nation
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
And speaking of balance, it was wonderful to find many personal connections, like two of us who had sons obsessed by World War II and Egypt.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2017
Mesopotamian entrepreneurs prospered by expanding their landlocked trade routes east to the Indus Valley (modern-day India) and west to Egypt and beyond.
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
Israel Minister: No Change to Egypt Deal Israels foreign minister said Israel would not agree to re-evaluate its peace deal with Egypt. Meanwhile, an Egypt-based, al Qaeda-inspired group claimed responsibility for Fridays attack along the border. Facebook. Twitter. WSJ Live. WSJ Live. MarketWatch. MarketWatch. Barrons. Barrons. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Factiva. Factiva. BigCharts. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal.
Inc Startups
MAY 27, 2014
For example, when I needed a bunch of snail mail addresses inside a bunch of emails converted into a spreadsheet, it took me exactly five seconds to locate a very intelligent and helpful worker--a woman in Egypt who was willing to do it for far less than I would have paid for a local worker, if I could have even found one willing to take on such a short-term project. Some startups seem destined to create big winners and big losers. Here are five of them.
ArcticStartup
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
In Egypt's app store, for example, six of the top 10 free social networking apps are VoIP apps Sweden seems to be the home of VoIP apps. Skype can arguably be traced back to Sweden, Rebtel is bigger than most everyone realizes, and Plingm is tackling the huge growing markets.
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. We challenged Vaynerchuk--co-owner of wine retailer Wine Library, CEO of the social-media strategy firm VaynerMedia, and (he's set on it) future owner of the New York Jets--to speak freely. Not a problem.
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 9, 2013
But we're also seeing a lot more interest from India and Brazil, along with countries like Egypt and Venezuela that have been going through political upheavals." Recently renewed by President Obama, the EB-5 Visa program links entrepreneurs to foreign investors.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Whatever their eventual path and outcomes – I would argue that their impact on Iran, Tunisia & Egypt – and frankly on the way that we as a society communicate now – has rendered them one of the most important technologies of the past decade.
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 12, 2013
Twitter and Facebook helped birth Arab Spring uprisings in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria by giving citizens a measure of control over media. Why Bitcoin could become "the currency of social revolution," why the FBI wants criminals to use Bitcoin, and more.
ReadWriteStart
JULY 6, 2012
I’ve had similar conversations about bringing entrepreneurship to Egypt, where starting a company is considered a low-class occupation.
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