Big thanks to the team at Dubai Eye 103.8 who had me on the radio for an hour yesterday talking about the Startup Visa Dubai idea.
You can listen the show here:
* Startup Visa Dubai pt .1
* Startup Visa Dubai pt .2
* Startup Visa Dubai pt .3
* Startup Visa Dubai pt .4
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A new online course portal has launched in the United Kingdom. XCourse is an education portal selling online courses that customers can purchase to learn on their own time. XCourse is initially offering courses in Microsoft Office, Web Programming, Databases, Business and People Management, HR, Marketing, and Negotiation skills.
Jude Gomila, founder of Heyzap.com, did some re-jigging to Dave McClure’s model for mapping out a startup and his model is a good guide for anyone looking to launch an online business. The model is good for seeing interconnections and aligning the team. I wouldn’t just take the model and try to use it as a roadmap as-is, but use the model as a starting point to a planning session with your team to map out your own model.
Last week I attended the event “Best Practices in Entrepreneurship Policy (BPEP): An Arab Regional Conference of Practitioners & Scholars” put on by the Dubai School of Government. The topics included the lack of insolvency laws in the region, policy and regulation for entrepreneurship, educating entrepreneurs, funding and investing and good governance.