Startup Education
Attracting customers is one of the biggest challenges when creating a startup. How can users find my business? How can I reach the right audience? How do I bring the right users to my website? Where can I reach the audience? If you have these questions in mind, you’re
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The Arab Innovation Academy is the biggest entrepreneurship program in the Arab Region. Every year, more than 200 participants of 30 nationalities get together at Qatar Science and Technology Park with a great challenge: create a startup in only 10 days. This exciting challenge was what made Shaikha Alsubaey apply
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by Christina Vila Boa Designing a clear and cohesive user experience can be the difference between success and failure. In fact, if a user is unable to understand your product and the value it brings to them, they will not use it. This is why the user experience has to
Startup Education
The startup universe is full of terms that can confuse a newcomer. We’ve already covered the startup unicorn topic, and now we’re on to a new one! Long before turning into billionaires, companies like Uber and Airbnb had their early stages at a startup incubator. As a young
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Entrepreneurship needs to be learned at an early age. It doesn’t matter what your future plans are; developing your entrepreneurial skills will help you to go further in your studies and professional career. Thrilled with the idea of learning by doing, Jens Dinesen, an entrepreneur with more than 25
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by Olivia Plotnick Every startup knows they need some sort of social media strategy. Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube now boast audience sizes in the billions. They’ve also become the most common way brands communicate with, engage and serve customers. However, creating content for social media that actually
Startup Education
Every entrepreneur knows how important is to define and validate a customer persona. However, when it’s time to put it in practice, many startups fail. Validating a customer persona requires time and effort, but it’s the best way to get to know who your ideal consumer is and
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What are the memories you have from EIA? To answer this question, Justin Sung, a Cognitive Science student at UC Berkeley created a video with his colleagues. Passionate about filmmaking, Justin Sung holds various positions on campus related to film and editing. “I love being able to capture people’s
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Can you hear the clock ticking? Oh yes, we’ve just started our countdown to the Arab Innovation Academy of 2020! Before we move forward to next year, we want to invite you to take a look back at what happened in the last edition. Ready to time travel? Let’
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by Thais Porsch* If I told you that it’s possible to create a startup from scratch in three weeks, would you believe it? I wouldn’t either. That was, of course, until I learned about the European Innovation Academy—the world’s leading entrepreneurship and innovation program. When I
Startup Education
Did you know that not having the right team is one of the main reasons why startups fail? Actually, the lack of a strong team is listed in the top three reasons for failure in a startup. Finding the right group of people to work with on an innovative idea
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In Summer 2018, Henrique Carvalho from University of Lisboa joined EIA in Portugal and along with his team developed Clynx. Since those intense weeks, a lot has happened. We've talked to Henrique Carvalho to know more how EIA has changed his life as an entrepreneur and to learn