Sohaib Thiab – The Story of an Internet Entrepreneur

Finally after allot of waiting and anticipation, the Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition results were announced in a nice ceremony at PSUT last Wednesday, I wrote the draft of this post one day after the ceremony but didn’t have the time to finish it and upload some pictures, 92 business ideas were submitted to the contest from 20 universities, 10 business plans were selected for the final round, including my business plan for Faye3.com along with my partner Hussam Hammo.

We presented the idea around a month ago in front of an international jury including jurors from Cambridge university as well as other universities from Spain and the US and a bunch of Arabic countries and yesterday the 10 finalist teams attended the announcement ceremony were the results were announced (nerve breaking moments)

I am glad to inform you all that our business plan for Faye3.com received the 1st prize in the competition, the 2nd prize went to a mobile applications company specializing in security and the 3rd prize went to a web2.0 e-learning website, there are generous financial prizes sponsored by Jordan Telecom as well as the publicity (news and TV) for the winners and especially for the 1st place winners (us), we heard that 1st place winners get a marketing campaign for free as well, not sure how accurate is that, but I sure hope it is true.

This is a great push for our project, and the networking in the ceremony was great as well.

Below are images of the ceremony. We also got interviewed by the Jordanian TV which was aired last Thursday in the 6pm news.

Me on the left, Hussam Hammo (my partner in the middle) and Mr. Basil Head of QRNEC on the right

Mr. Mohd. Khawaja on the right, project manager of QRNEC.

I’ll try to upload more pictures later on, you can check our more images on my facebook profile.