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Tambi Jalouqa

Tambi Jalouqa

📍 Amman, Jordan http://www.propellerinc.me

Reflections on 5 years working as a Venture Capitalist

I can't imagine it's been 5 years. 5 years since I decided to take the plunge and lead a venture capital firm. If someone told me I would be doing this job I would have shrugged and laughed! I would have told them they were crazy.

Why you should avoid donor funding

If you are building a venture-scale startup, please avoid donor funding. The purpose of donor funding is to focus on areas the private market is not focusing on. They should give that helping hand to the poor businesswomen living outside the main city and start their home business. But venture

Always align the incentives

“Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome.” This is a quote by the amazing Charlie Munger, a great investor who left us earlier this month. It truly is a great predictor of the future. When you start any experiment, journey, or mission. The way you

I went over 281 startups from the recent 22/23 YCombinator batch so you don't have to

As many of you know, YC was started in 2006 by Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston, and Robert Morris. It's the world's best accelerator and source of great startups, content, and overall innovation related to starting a startup. At some point I thought to myself,

How founders need to grow on day 0

Everyone knows that startup founders are the visionaries that find a big problem, locate a large enough group of people who would pay for it, and then get it to them as fast as possible. Whilst doing that; they attract many talented people to help them do it at scale.

Home vs Away revenue

How do you measure how a startup is performing outside of your home turf, HAR (Home vs Away) is one metric.

Hello world

Will be posting more here. I usually like to interact with others on social media But sometimes I have posts that are too long I would rather keep aomewhere safe This new site is the candidate for that space!