Iraqi startup Miswag.net helps merchants transition to the internet

Miswag.net, Baghdad’s first internet-based startup with real potential to grow, launched less than a month ago to help local merchants in Baghdad with low capital to start selling their products online.

Iraqi youth have started to believe in entrepreneurship, leaving behind the safety of governmental employment to accept risks and taking challenge in the untapped internet market. The country was active last year in organizing events encouraging youth to start their own businesses, like Startup Weekend and NITA (the National Information and Technology Association).

The startup is the brainchild of Miswag’s current COO Ammar Ameen, who worked for six months at Easy Bites, a food delivery startup based in north Iraq that launched at the end of 2012.

We did an interview with Ammar to talk about his startups:

Wamda: What is your background?

Ammar Ameen: I hold a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (University of Baghdad 2006) and a Master of IT (University of Malaya 2009). I have worked as a lecturer at Cihan University in Erbil for four years, during which I taught: Database Systems, OOP (object oriented programming), and Web Development at the department of Computer Science.

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Iraqi startup Miswag.net helps merchants transition to the internet