- Entrepreneurship - Students Entrepreneurs - Co-founder - Partner qualities

1. MHD Muhanad Sabha
www.muhanad.me

2. • Bachelor Degree in Business Administration – University of Greenwich
• Professional Diploma in Business Administration (PD)
• Higher National Diploma in Computing and business application
• Experience in Business development consulting, Communications industry,
Non-profit sector, Traditional & New marketing, and SMEs & startups.
• Entrepreneurship and new Tech blogger
• Associate Consultant and Project Manager at Venture international
• Communications and Small business volunteer - Al-Barakah Association
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3. • Founder and Initiator of
Ryhaan. A small business
training module –
www.Ryhaan.com
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7. • What is the journey like?
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8. Investment or Not?
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9. 1. Internal Reasons
2. External Reasons
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10. 1. Observing
Trends
2. Solving
a Problem
3. Gaps in
the Marketplace
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11. 1. SMEs – Small Medium
entrepreneurships
2. IDEs – Innovation driven
entrepreneurships
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12. Social entrepreneurship
“return to society”
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13. In developing countries, people tend to see more
opportunities to start venture than in developed
countries.
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14. 2 out of 3 people worldwide
think entrepreneurship is a good career choice.
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15. 69 percent of U.S. entrepreneurs start their
businesses at home
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16. 51 percent of people asked, “What’s the best way to learn more
about entrepreneurship?” responded with “Start a company”.
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17. Top 5 reasons why people start their own business:
1. Money
2. Flexibility of being your own boss
3. Control over decision making
4. Pick the team you want to work with
5. Legacy; Leaving your footprint
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19. A research shows that:
36% of students started a
business during study.
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20. A research shows that:
69% of students would like to
work in a startup.
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21. A research shows that:
Startups with two founders are
the most successful!
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Jerry Yang and David Filo

23. Reasons why people search for partners with whom to found a business:
• Need for essential skills
• Funding
• Share workload
• OR.. Just prefer working in a TEAM!
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24. What qualities to look
for in a
Co-founder/Partner?
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25. 1- A shared vision
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26. 2- Passion and the spirit
of adventure
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27. 3- Logical and realistic
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28. 4- Takes the project
seriously
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29. • Alice Stewart
• George Kneale
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30. Most-Knows Explained by the greatest entrepreneurs of all times:
Believe in yourself
“Whether you think you can,
or think you cant, you’re right!”
– Henry ford
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31. Most-Knows Explained by the greatest entrepreneurs of all times:
Focus on things you care about
Facebook founder Mark Zuekerberg is convinced
that you should see entrepreneurship as
translating your passion into a business.
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32. Most-Knows Explained by the greatest entrepreneurs of all times:
Do not give up
Alibaba founder Jack Ma was declined by
Harvard 10 times and rejected as the only
of 24 applicants when applying for KFC.
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33. Most-Knows Explained by the greatest entrepreneurs of all times:
Build a good team
“Teams should be able to act with
some unity of purpose and focus as a
well motivated individual” – Bill Gates
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www.muhanad.me