Abdulrahman Salem

Co-Founder of 🇦🇪 and 🇪🇬 ventures (Consulting, AI, design). On building & growing NMSE's and what the UAE startup ecosystem needs. 🇱🇧 born in AlAin 🇦🇪.

[Maryam Al Dabbagh @maryamwd]

لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله … أنا لله وإنا راجعون .. اخبار أهل الفجيرة والمنطقة الشرقية تدمي القلب … مصابنا واحد . رحمكم الله والله يصبر الأهل

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

Do you also wonder about businesses, if so what kind of questions do you have?

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

Today business is a fact of life. However why should a business exist? Should it be an internal factor (i.e founder-centric), or an external factor (customer-centric)?

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

How does one go about defining what a problem is that is worth pursuing, now that almost all human problems that existed for thousands of years have been resolved? Warren Buffet constantly notes that the average human living today lives a much better life than a King and Queen lived several hundred years ago.

[HH Sheikh Mohammed @HHShkMohd]

شهدت رفقة أخي محمد بن زايد رئيس الدولة حفظه الله جلسة رئيسية ضمن الاجتماعات السنوية لحكومة الإمارات بعنوان "بنظهر أقوى" ..

ناقشت الجلسة جاهزيتنا الوطنية في المجالات العسكرية والأمنية والاقتصادية والطبية واللوجستية والتعليمية للأحداث الاستثنائية التي شهدها العام الحالي .

دولة الإمارات أظهرت للعالم قدراتها الحقيقية خلال الأحداث .. صلابتها العسكرية والاقتصادية ومرونتها الوطنية وقوة وحكمة حكومتها.

فخورين بفرق عملنا .. فخورين بولاء مجتمعنا .. فخورين بجنود قواتنا .. وفخورين برئيس دولتنا … فخورين بدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة 🇦🇪

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

@AbdllahAlneaimi ألف مبروك. منها للأعلى ان شاء الله. عقبال درجة الماجستير والدكتوراه

[عبدالله النعيمي @AbdllahAlneaimi]

أفضل حفل تخرج شهدته في حياتي، كان حفل تخرج كليات التقنية العليا، يوم الإثنين الماضي، في الاتحاد أرينا.

وما زاده جمالاً في عيني، أنني كنت شاهداً على تكريم ابنتي وقرة عيني، شيخة، ضمن 14 طالباً وطالبة حصلوا على المعدل الكامل (4.00)، وتخرجوا بامتياز مع مرتبة الشرف الأولى.

لحظة تختصر سنوات من الاجتهاد والمثابرة، وتمنح قلب الأب فرحة يصعب وصفها بالكلمات.

فالحمد لله حمداً كثيراً طيباً مباركاً فيه، ملء السماوات والأرض، وملء ما شاء من شيء بعد.

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

Im interested in NMSEs. Nano, Micro and Small businesses. Not much literature exists on these busineses sizes within the economy. Im interested in how they make the decision to start, how they get their initial customers, grow and survive in developing economies and through political and economic turbulence. If your an NMSE, Id love to hear more from you! Post here below 👇

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

@maryamwd @CrossFit Hahahha. For sure!

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

When i got back to training in May after not training consistently since 2017, I started with 5 mins of anything. 30 sec run, and 1 min walk, light deadlifts (the 15kg barbell felt soo heavy), air squats, rowing machine, whatever was on the workout schedule @CrossFit
Published, i did the beginner option.

For me consistency did not mean making every session harder. It meant holding on for as long as possible to the idea working out.

For reference, I used to a be a fulltime CF-L2 crossfit coach. Which made my coming back experience mentally excruciating. However 5 months later, i got at least 3- 4 times a week, running on 5 different companies, الحمد لله, im happy with where I am.

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

@CrossFit The most challenging part for me in the overhead squat is my brain believing that its okay to hold that much weight over my head 😅. Also my posterior chain inflexibility shows up the most here and I feel it really hard at the wrists. Any advice on how to tackle that?

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

@myWODapp @CrossFit Thank you 🥹

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

I think @CrossFit programming is the best functional fitness programming in the world.
Even after not doing a proper workout in seven years, it took 4 months of following their website programming to get to being able to do Andi
Andi

For time:
100 hang power snatches
100 push presses
100 sumo deadlift high pulls
100 front squats

♀ 45-lb barbell
♂ 65-lb barbell

Yes it took me an hour and 45mins. 2 liters of water, a lot of shouting and grunting, bit im done and الحمد لله ، very proud!!

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

Super exciting! We need a highly kinetic startup mindset in the UAE. It could also be useful to see what the incoming founders need from local businesses: pilot customers, distribution partners or specialist suppliers. That would give people outside the programme a practical way to help.

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

Honestly, consulting partnerships rarely work. Before calling it a consulting partnership, I'd want to answer three questions:

Who owns the client relationship?
Who fixes a missed handoff?
How do we split the work and fees?

One shared project seems a better test than a broad agreement. What would you add?

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

A real week in running consulting business in 2026 isn't only decks and workshops.

It's 2-3 proposals, 3 to 6 laps of scope and pricing negotiations , and all of them needed it yesterday.

The work that never hits the website is what we must do to ensure our pipeline is always full so that were able to pay salaries, and invest in the future of our company.

What does your week actually look like?

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

@OldManM7md 🤣🤣🤣

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

@ZidaneZ08902030 @CrossFit My forearms were no fire, you get to really work on efficiency of your movement here to produce as much power from your hip and rely less on your arms.

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

@maryamwd @CrossFit Lets do this!!!

[Abdulrahman Salem @YamiyetSalem]

@KFED_Official Great move. Access to 2,800+ SMEs opens real doors. Many of the businesses that need supply-chain access most are Nano (under AED 100K a year) and Micro (AED 100K to 1M). Would love to see pathways built for them too.