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Last weekend was a busy one for the GrEEK Campus, a tech hub located at the old American University of Cairo. Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Cairo took place there on Saturday February 21, followed by Startup AddVenture the next day, where experts and entrepreneurs from all over the world got together in small panels and discussion sessions on starting up in Egypt, how to raise funds, build a product, understand sales and data, pitching and more. The day ended with a pitching contest where five startups presented their ideas in three minutes on stage and received direct feedback.

There were many familiar faces on Sunday. Hania Hamroush, co-founder of Sharquity, who attended Mix N’ Mentor, was there to share her journey in an interview with Mike Butcher, Editor-At-Large at TechCrunch. Abdelhameed Sharara, founder of Rise Up Summit Cairo, one of the major entrepreneurship events in the country, shared one startup lesson he learnt throughout his career. “Stop doing ten things and focus on one thing only.”