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Building Egypt’s Best Founder Network — Starting at My College

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 my clear and direct vision is to build Egypt's best network of founders.

my current strategy to reach this is to run Rally like a startup — our advantage will be the network.

i want to change the strategy because it doesn’t match reality.

Thinking From Scratch

all the students I've talked with in my college — here is my realization:

  1. there are students who know nothing about startups or technical stuff

  2. there are students who know technical stuff but nothing about startups

  3. there are students who know non-technical stuff but nothing about technical work or the importance of technical skills

so till now, here is my plan: I want to look for no. 2 — good technical students that may not be very experienced, but have a fast pace of learning, are able to build their project or startup, and have the passion to do it.
but as I mentioned, the majority (at least all I know) of them don't have the information about running a startup.

What Students Actually Lack

i think about it like this: in order to start a startup you need 3 things — information, money, and network.

money is not a problem in the beginning because of the amount of free tools.

so they mainly lack information and network.

i think I'll need to provide both of these because it's what they need to become startup founders.

i don't know man — at the same time I'm thinking that I don't want to confuse myself between two things. I want to be really specific and concise because it's a lot of work. I really want only one thing, at least for each time phase.

what's going to bring the most value to talented students so I can bring them together?

when I made ChatGPT do a deep research he found out the following:

  1. YC: favors network

  2. Paul Graham (YC founder): favors information

  3. Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO): favors network

but from another perspective, if I asked myself the question “how can I provide the most value to them?” the answer would be: make them apply for Rally Egypt — a program that helps students turn their ideas into real businesses that make money through online and offline sessions, and a final competition. (will call it the awareness program)

then what I'll do at Rally Society will not be replicating the same thing — it better be a new thing, like a program similar to Y Combinator that makes the network more connected and stronger with each other. (will call it the exclusive community program)

So My Final Strategy Could Be:

Give students information through Rally Egypt.

Then gather the top fast-learning technical students in a curated, YC-style community.

First awareness, then exclusivity.

Phases

  • Phase 1 → Information (awareness program)

  • Phase 2 → Network (exclusive community)