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Daoud G

📍 Dubai https://daoud.blog

أبياتٌ تُتلى مع الفجرِ تشحذ همّتك وتُجدّد عزمك

لعل بيتًا من الشعر العربي عند صباحك الفجري الباكر يشحذ الهمة، جرّبها وقُل لي! 1. الإمام الشافعي: بِقَدْرِ الكَدِّ تُكْتَسَبُ المَعَالِي وَمَنْ طَلَبَ العُلَا سَهِرَ اللَّيَالِ

How I Support Founders: From Idea to Revenue, and Beyond

Over the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside founders, startups, and innovation teams across the UAE, MENA region, and beyond. Whether launching coworking spaces, advising venture programs, or helping businesses navigate expansion into new markets — my focus has always been practical, values-driven support that helps founders

Change your lane or not?

When you are driving on the freeway, which lane are you usually taking? Do you stick to the right side, left, middle or do you just move around depending on traffic, direction, speed? I found that our life has some similarity we can learn from driving on the freeway. For

"My Rizq is Written" Wasn’t Enough. What Was Missing?

I know we are all working hard to get the Rizq we want to achieve, whether it is to cover our fundamental needs for ourselves and our families, to pay off loans, or build sustainable provision. For me, since childhood I desired wealth - thinking it was my path to

An Empty Chair, a Full Heart: Offering Space & Time in Dubai

Because barakah grows in shared soil

100 Mistakes I Did in My Businesses

In the past 15 years, I’ve started four businesses—from my first tech store as a family business to uMake, Gooddesk, and others that never made it to the light. I started as a born geek who turned into an entrepreneur with zero business background, and this journey taught

Bismillah: Launching Daoud’s Blog

Salaam everyone, I bought daoud.blog about a year ago and then let it gather digital dust—waiting for the “perfect day,” the “perfect design,” the “perfect first post.” Perfectionism is a polite form of procrastination. Today I’m hitting publish and choosing to learn in public. A dash of

بسم الله: بداية مدونة داود

السّلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته، اشتريت نطاق daoud.blog منذ عام تقريبًا ثم تركته يجلس في درج الأفكار المؤجَّلة؛ كنتُ أبحث عن «اليوم المثالي» و«التصميم المثالي» و«المقال المثالي». المشكلة أن البحث عن الكمال يُبقيك في خانة الصمت. اليوم أضغط نشر، وأتعلّم علنًا