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Interview with Hesham Zreik, CEO of FasterCapital
- Hesham Zreik, CEO of FasterCapital, co-founded the company in 2010 to help entrepreneurs worldwide with great tech business ideas to get technical expertise and funding.
- FasterCapital was created to assist entrepreneurs as a technical co-founder providing all kinds of technical and business support for tech startups.
- FasterCapital helps startups to expand into new markets, as well as the Raise Capital programme that matches startups with angel investors, VCs, and business loans globally.
- FasterCapital works with entrepreneurs, small business owners, CEOs, and tech people to establish great ideas and to help find funding.
- FasterCapital has helped more than 1000 entrepreneurs, over 732 startups worldwide, raising $2.2B in capital and investing over $780M in many different industry sectors.
- The company's main goal in the coming years is to augment solutions and services and implement the best technology to help startups create the best results in the most efficient manner possible.
- The main challenges for FasterCapital when starting out were to have all the resources needed to support entrepreneurs in such early stages, but this was solved by building their own network of angels and VCs.
- Hesham Zreik recommends some must-read books for entrepreneurs, including “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries, “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel, and “The Startup Owner’s Manual” by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf.
- The CEO believes that being surrounded by inspiring and innovative people, practicing on your own, being patient and persistent will help you become an expert in any chosen field.
- Zreik advises readers to give 100% to their projects, be attentive, reflect on every activity, and monitor the results to find a better way to succeed.
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