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June 5, 2013 – Nabil Bukhalid, President ISOC Lebanon

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch Day.  June 6, 2012 was a day when many major websites and service providers enabled IPv6 support permanently.

One year after WORLD IPV6 LAUNCH DAY the number of IPv6 connected Internet users doubled and major network providers and web companies offer IPv6 as a standard service.

“The year since World IPv6 Launch began has cemented what we know will be an increasing reality on the Internet: IPv6 is ready for business,” said Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society’s Chief Internet Technology Officer. “Forward-looking network operators are successfully using IPv6 to reduce their dependency on expensive, complex network address translation systems (CGNs) to deal with a shortage of IPv4 addresses. Leaders of organizations that aspire to reach all Internet users must accelerate their IPv6 deployment plans now, or lose an important competitive edge.”

For those not familiar with IPv6, it’s the next generation Internet address numbering set to replace the current IPv4.  With the incredible growth of internet connected devices like smartphones, tablets, etc., we’re quickly running out of available IPv4 addresses.  IPv6 provides more than 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses, will connect the billions of people not connected today and will help ensure the Internet can continue its current growth rate indefinitely. Read the rest of this entry →

Last week I attended a workshop about improving a business model; It was very interesting and I learnt a lot concerning building a good, sustainable business model. The workshop was lead by Mr. Shadi Banna, the founder of Dubai-based human capital development organization Potential. It was held at Berytech Technology Pole, in the framework of the Intel Berytech Innovation Challenge (IBIC). Here is what I learnt from this workshop.

Entrepreneurs are often referred to “heroes” because they create jobs and break the walls to get to their goals. Also, entrepreneurship isn’t that easy and the numbers prove this fact: 75% of new businesses fail in the first 5 years (relatively better than previous years). This can be explained by giving up early, burning the investment money too fast or lack of passion. In fact, everyone has ideas, but what differs one person from another is the execution of the idea and making it count. Read the rest of this entry →

I attended this morning a Power Brunch at Berytech, which was led by Mrs. Leila Khauli, Expert in digital branding, around the topic of “Socialize your brand by embracing the digital revolution”. The topic focused on the challenges of entrepreneurs to address their online communities and set the right strategies to succeed. The interaction and exchange between participants and the speaker was very engaging and here are some very interesting quotes that I wanted to share, taken from this session:

“It’s all about content, interesting content which entertains & educates the audience, avoid being  repetitive, spammy, boring”

“3 main pillars of social media are: Content, Strategy, & Analytics”

“it is very important to see why are you on social media and what do you want from it”

“Start by identifying your sustainable competitive edge or added value”

“Social media strategy is about setting goals & see how to meet them, it’s about scanning constantly the environment & adapting to it focusing on pro-activity”

“Identify your target communities, latest trends, threats, opportunities and influencers to engage with them”

“It is very important to spend time on listing and monitoring content constantly”

“Feed your blog with cutting edge content, new stuff for readers” Read the rest of this entry →

I constantly came across entrepreneurs with a brilliant idea that they cannot share, fault to be stolen and been implemented by someone else.

My response is quick and simple: if you cannot protect your idea, you are better off seeking another one.

So, before getting into a business modeling and/or planning, you better assess well your idea, introducing as many innovation into it, to protect or delay copying as much as possible.

What is Innovation? Read the rest of this entry →

During April’s Technology Round Table,  we discussed a very important matter, which is a burden to all data users: How a software can analyse data for them.

Matrix TRC did a demo that showed how its innovative solution Triple One meets this requirement. It started by showing the link between music and data analysis and how the software defines variables for analysis automation in the same logic as musical notes. We also run analysis with the simple Drag n Drop concept by which the user selects variables and get instant results. Read the rest of this entry →

Following the Global Social Venture Competition, 10 local finalists were selected to benefit from a business plan and mentoring academy. In addition, Berytech offered them an incubation for the period of 3 months in Berytech Digital Park’s DigiHive, a very new co-working space.

The target of this opportunity is to give them access to an adapted working environment helping them develop their business plans and be ready for funding. Also, targeted coaching programs will be offered by Berytech and GSVC partners.

You can read more about each of the finalists below.

Welcome to Berytech DigiHive! Read the rest of this entry →