We ran a one-week ICT Incubator Bootcamp on entrepreneurship and startups in Syria. It gives participants what they need to start building a company.
The first bootcamp ran in Damascus in October 2015, where we accepted 21 ideas. We ran it again at ICTI in Homs in November 2015 for 14 ideas, and we are preparing another one at ICTI in Latakia in summer 2016.
The agenda covered:
- What is entrepreneurship, and how a startup differs from an SME
- Lean Startup: what it gets right and what it misses
- Why companies fail, and the business model
- Communication, e-marketing and branding guidelines
- How to finance a startup, income statements and revenue streams
- Pitching, and what an investor looks for
The team I worked with:
Damascus:
- Fadwa Murad
- AlHasan Muhammad Ali
- al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif
- Sana Hawasly
- May Massijeh
- Mohammed Al-Juboori
- Yaman AlTareh
Homs:
