Ideation Box

It has been ages since I wrote a blog post; it’s not because there is nothing to write about but it’s my claim of being so busy. Any way, June 6th 2010 marked the first anniversary of my startup Ideation Box and I was planning to write something then but it didn’t work for me so now I’m putting everything here in one chaotic post.

Entrepreneurship, a phrase that I don’t even know how to pronounce it well, has been always attractive for a person like me, I always wanted people to call me an entrepreneur and that’s probably my first reason of why I took my life to another level and started my own business along with my partner Hadi (I bet he’s still shocked for the way it happened).  I didn’t spend more than 5 minutes of my life to take such a decision and start hitting some walls. Finally now I’m being introduced as a business and social entrepreneur, and here we go, I pinpointed it twice.

Now after more than 1 year of trials and a lot of errors, I can only say that last year was a very intensive “experience course” that kept feeding me mixed emotions of glory and disappointment and helped me in growing my vision, ambition, practices and definitely persistence.

I don’t want to go through the details of my first year, I don’t want to show people that I failed in serving some clients, I won’t explain why I regretted working with some friends… etc! The conclusion is that I’m still here serving my dream, hitting more walls, taking care of the clients and our 2 big babies, Nakhweh.com and Tadarrab.com, proceeding with the Ideation process and popping more ideas out of our Box!

“Your creative idea might redefine you one day, bring it to life and take good care of it!” – Kamel Al-Asmar

The year of 2009 held a lot of surprises for me, I can also consider it an extraordinary year of action that made a huge difference in the whole track of my life. Working with Boundless the sister web development company of Akhtaboot and Jawaker, moving to work on the co-finding of my startup venture Ideation Box, popping Nakhweh.com and finally kicking off Ideation Box Labs a couple of days ago. All of that moves I have done were absolutely guided or influenced by my family and friends.

In the last day of 2009 and the last post of the year I would like to thank those who supported and helped me to achieve this point of success:

• My Father and The God Father of Ideation Box, Marwan Al-Asmar; thank you.
• Intisar Samara, thank you for being my mother and for your prayers that helped me to make it for you.
• Khaled, Sarah, Noor and little Mahmoud I love you.
• Hadi Nasereddin, I wouldn’t be able to make it without a great partner like you.
• Firas Steitiyeh; thanks for helping in making my dream of the original Ideation Box comes true with the Ideation Box Labs.
• Amer Al-Saleh; what a creative mind and a good sales man.
• Mohamad Haj Hasan; 2 years of great experience under your mentorship were the key factors. Thank you.
• Mohamad Khawaja; your endless support for us is priceless.
• Fouad Mardini; I will be benefiting from your technical support forever.
• Mais Gousous; you always make me feel that I’m doing the best thing ever.
• Reem Khouri; your ideas tell me how Ideation is done.
• Ayah Nasan; great efforts and more to come.
• Zina Bata; thanks for the mature advices.
• Aya Jazy; Nakhweh loves you, believe me.

The influence of the these Arab entrepreneurs played a big role as well:

• Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah.
• Rabee’ Zureikat of Zikra Initiative.
• Rawan Zeine of Ta3leeleh.
• Samar Dudin of Ruwwad.
• Maher Kaddoura of Al-Jude for Scientific Care Programs.
• Fadi Ghandour of Aramex.
• Laith Zraikat of Jeeran.
• Habib Haddad of Yamli.

Finally, I want to wish you all a Happy New Year of 2010 that brings you happiness, joy and real success