Novice entrepreneurs can be reluctant to launching their own businesses due to lack of knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship. Educational websites and e-magazines can play a major role in educating entrepreneurs, exposing them to institutions that can help them receive mentorship and funding, or telling stories of success or failure that can be instructional.
Two Saudis, Tariq Buhilaigah and Yousuf Jamjoom, decided to launchSaudipreneurship, an e-magazine in both Arabic and English, to help bridge the wide knowledge gap in the entrepreneurship sector in Saudi Arabia, says Youssef in an interview with Wamda.
Jamjoom met Buhilaigah through a program for thei2 Institute, and then they attended the Poptechconference together in the United States in 2013. At the time, Jamjoom was working on his own project, 7arf, a platform for online courses, and Buhilaigah was working on a project of his own as well. At Poptech, they discussed the entrepreneurship situation in Saudi Arabia and the existing gap between entrepreneurs and access to knowledge. Eventually they had the idea of launching an e-magazine that deals with entrepreneurship topics and helps young people kick-start their own businesses.
A free e-Magazine for Saudi entrepreneurs
In October 2013, the two founders began working on their project while keeping their day jobs (Jamjoom works in the marketing department at a pharmaceutical company for nutritional supplements, and Buhilaigah works atFab Lab, an open space in Dhahran that bring ideas from scratch to life).
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Two young Saudis launch free e-magazine to foster entrepreneurship
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