From Employee to Entrepreneur in the UAE – Insights from those who successfully made the leap

There’s an entrepreneur hidden inside all of us While preparing to get into business for myself, I diligently observed and analyzed the world of entrepreneurship and in the process, exchanged endless ideas with countless people. Based on my experience at the time (and ever since), I have developed an unshakable conviction – that every person is an aspiring…

Entrepreneurial wisdom from UAE’s ‘baqalas’ (neighbourhood grocery shops)

Land of the world’s most pampered consumers The slightly miffed CEO repeated my words with deliberate and quizzical slowness, “the UAE consumer is spoilt with levels of convenience that just don’t exist in other parts of the world”. The scene was that of the fifth and final day of a ‘discovery’ trip to a certain franchisor’s headquarters in Sydney, Australia.…