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I found out that I find talking to founders on WhatsApp and creating communities for them is so boring for me. To demonstrate this point, I’ll tell you the story from the beginning. I did 12 info sessions, each for a group of about 100 students, then sent a message on the batch WhatsApp group which led to a lot of the students that attended the info sessions to reply to me privately and discuss their ideas with me, which I found interesting and fun. But the number of ideas that I’ve heard and discussed were a lot to the point that I started to reply late to anyone who wanted to discuss their idea with me. I felt so bored and procrastinated doing it a lot! I think part of the reason I started to not be excited to discuss ideas on WhatsApp anymore was because the messages came at random times. Let me explain. I have my week divided into two parts, the first part which is the days of the week I have to go to college. I return home from college around 5-6 pm and let’s say I at most finish ...

This past week I was feeling a sense of non accomplishment most of the time. Not in the time I was in college. Because when I was at college I used most of the time to talk to students and get feedback from them about Rally Society (my product) which was productive. The feeling of non accomplishment this week came when I was sitting at home after college and on days when I didn’t have college in. This feeling was mostly because I spent this time neither creating any marketing content for the society, nor planning, nor talking to users (students). I didn’t talk to users because there were not a lot of them who ask me for things, and I didn’t initiate conversations with them because I'd already talked to them when I was at college. So why didn’t I create any marketing content or make anything valuable to feel a sense of accomplishment? I think this was mainly because the thing that I had to get done with was… I didn't know what I had to do. I had a lot of tasks and I was so distr...

For the last couple of weeks I've worked on attracting students who might like startups through Rally Society to expand my network. I've attracted them by doing info sessions in lectures. I've only attracted about 20 teams till now and most of them are 1 person teams. Now I'm bored of doing these info sessions and I wanna talk to them more. I felt like they didn't really get what I'm trying to communicate using these info sessions. Students Problems This was the first type of questions, the second type of questions was by people who didn't even understand the questions in the google form when they tried to apply. the questions in the form divided into two types, (1) questions about the idea, and (2) questions about the team members. I don't think they had a problem with the questions about the team members because it only contained their phone numbers and ids (which I think they should’ve included more questions about the team members because now I don...

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