nyu abu dhabi women in computing workshop
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A workshop hosted at NYU AD exploring women in computing in the arab world. The challenges & opportunities.TRANSCRIPT
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a vision
Women Entrepreneurship in the Arab Word
March 4 2012rama [email protected]
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A personal account
• Fundraising
• USA
• Keybridge - $60 Million 3 weeks (VC)
• MENA Fundraising
• zeedna - $500,000 3 years (F&F)
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Tech Venture Landscape
• consumer internet & mobile apps
• OTHER
• infrastructure
• software
• hardware
• services
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connect.communicate.collaborate
CONSUMER INTERNET: eCommerce & Augmented Reality
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT - Gaming
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MOBILE: Application
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT - Science & Education
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MOBILE: Messaging Application
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SOFTWARE: Social Media Platform
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Challenges
• entrepreneurs - Humility & poor self-promotion
• investor profile
• risk averse
• accustomed to brick and mortar model
• lacking industry knowledge
• underdeveloped eco system
• insufficient seed & angel investment networks
• Majles recommendations
• global pressure to invest in developed markets
• family & society
• advocating stability
• time & priorities
• social bias (cupcake business or if you are really serious.. graphics design)
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Opportunities
• An eco system - Women centric everything
• angel networks & vc firms
• consumer internet & mobile
• services
• web design, custom software development,
• e-education, digital agencies,
• social ventures
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what we must do..
• enable the powerful through tech
• tell stories & celebrate success & failure
• identify role-models
• push them out to the world..
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connect.communicate.collaborate
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