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Zeid Husban is out to convince businesses to switch from traditional point-of-sale (POS) technology to POS Rocket, his cloud-based solution with a customizable interface.
Cloud-based POS systems have been used by businesses in the United States and Europe for nearly a decade. According to POS Rocket founder and CEO Zeid Husban, this software solution is long overdue here.
Husban wants his POS Rocket platform to empower merchants and businesses, allowing them to seamlessly monitor and optimize their operations in real time. The company is currently operating in Jordan and Egypt.
Husban is the latest Jordanian entrepreneur to be selected into Endeavor’s global network during Endeavor’s Seventy-third International Selection Panel in Beirut. He’s also the cofounder of ifood.jo, an online food-ordering platform acquired by Delivery Hero in 2016.
What is the POS Rocket and how did it come about?
POS Rocket is a cloud-based POS platform that’s designed to help small-to-medium- sized businesses sell and grow more. Traditional POS systems require merchants to have an actual server in their shop. If they want to access data, they must have a firewall, a static LP, and a VPN connection. It’s an ancient way of handling transactions and connecting to the outside world. The idea behind POS Rocket came while I was at ifood.jo, the food-ordering platform that I cofounded in 2012.
We faced an issue of how to transfer an order from the customer to the restaurant through a GPS machine similar to the Visa machine that prints out the order. The restaurant owner has to accept the order and then put a delivery time on that order. This was very inconvenient. There’s a human interaction here and the margin of error is really huge. Another thing is when a restaurant wanted to update a menu, they updated it on their system and forgot to tell us that they updated the menu or their prices and things like that so we were having outdated menus on ifood. These two issues made me think that there must be a better way to communicate between our service and these restaurants since they are online and are connected.
How did you go about creating and validating the software?
I knew I would be exiting ifood in December 2015 and I signed the contract giving me seven to eight months to leave the company and hand it over to the new investors. During that time, I started thinking to pursue the POS space, and reading a lot about it. I looked in the region and there wasn’t such a solution ready, then I looked outside the region in the United States, Canada, and Europe where this cloud point of sale has been there for up to eight years.
I went to Cairo with a friend for a week in March 2016 to scout the market because Cairo has a huge market gap for small-and-medium-seized businesses.
We talked to business owners, restaurant owners, and retail owners and saw the need for such a solution there. We came back at the end of march and started development at the beginning of April 2016. Within two months, we had our first minimum viable product (MVP). In June of 2016, we installed the software at a restaurant here in Jordan to test it and then we took feedback for a couple of months and enhanced the software. We released our first version in August 2016.
How do you see your product developing?
One of the main reasons why I joined Endeavor is because I had experience only in Jordan, we did not scale before so now with POS Rocket wanting to scale, I need some mentorship regarding what to do and what not to do to make the road shorter. There are no boundaries in connecting with people through the network.
What challenges are you likely to face in the future?
The biggest challenge in Jordan is a challenge and an opportunity at the same time. Jordan is a very small market compared to other markets in the region so you can’t build a business to stay in the Kingdom. You must scale really quickly. But Jordan, on the other hand, is excellent for market validation, because it’s a small market with good, affordable talent. That’s why we were able to come up with a product, test it, and validate it here and then take it to Egypt. Now hopefully, next year we hope to take it to the GCC with a proven, validated product. We just secured funding which will help us because we validated the product in the market here and have experience as well so with this funding, we will be able to expand into other countries in the GCC.
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In 1943 the Beta Omicron Sigma Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated was chartered in Fort Valley, Georgia for post-graduate members. In 1959, this chapter became the Fort Valley Alumnae Chapter. Because Beta Omicron Sigma Chapter was in close proximity to Macon, members travelled to Fort Valley for meetings and to conduct sorority business. Even though members were appreciative of and worked collaboratively with Beta Omicron Sigma Chapter, in 1957, the twelve members living in Macon decided to pursue their dream of chartering a chapter in Macon, Georgia.
Under the watchful eye of Thelma Cobb, the 1956-1960 Southern Regional Director, the ladies met, planned and were successful in their venture of obtaining a charter. On April 26, 1958 at the Booker T. Washington Center, the Epsilon Sigma Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, was granted a charter and in the following year, the chapter became the Macon Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. The service area and the areas from which prospective members would be chosen was designated to encompass the following counties of Middle Georgia: Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs and Wilkinson. Of the many members to be initiated into the beloved sisterhood of the Macon Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, the first three initiates, in 1959, were the following members: Dorothy Zellner Brown*, Marie Hardeman Collins*, and Annie Marie Lundy Wynn (*deceased).
The Macon Alumnae Chapter has a financial membership of over 150 active members. The Macon Alumnae Chapter adheres to the model of the Grand Chapter pledged and devoted to serious and sincere service to the Macon/Middle Georgia community where we live and work. We follow the example of public service defined in the sorority’s five-point programmatic thrust: Educational Development, Economic Development, Physical and Mental Health, Political Awareness and Involvement, and International Awareness and Involvement.
In our commitment to public service, recent and ongoing projects and service efforts include: Contributing approximately $14,000 annually to scholarships and community projects and agencies ~Supports L. H. Williams as a part of the ADOPT-A-SCHOOL program ~Sponsors field trips for youth ~Sponsors seminars and clinics; Contributing annually to the American Cancer Fund, United Negro College Fund, March of Dimes, Booker T. Washington Community Center, Harriet Tubman Museum, Ruth Mosley Women’s Center, Hospice of Middle Georgia, American Heart Fund; Participating over the years in Volunteer Macon Program; Contributing to the needy at Christmas through the Christmas Stockings activity of the Salvation Army and the Make-a-Wish project of The Macon Telegraph; Adopting families annually during the Thanksgiving season and donating needed items; Contributing to Habitat-for Humanity International; Supporting the local Habitat Unit; Participating in Voter Registration drives with members serving as Deputy Registrars for a number of years; Participating in the annual Pan-African festival; Taking an active role in social action issues to make our concerns known to local, state, and national politicians and legislators; Working with troubled youth by sponsoring a mentoring program at the Macon Youth Development Center; Assisting at the Teen Parent center, and supporting the Nazareth Home for pregnant youth; Conducting AIDS Awareness Workshops;Sponsoring the annual Beautillion where outstanding African American high school junior and senior young men are presented as “beaux” and young boys ages five (5) to eleven (11) are presented as “master beaux” to the Middle Georgia society; and Conducting a mentoring and tutoring program for girls called the Betty Shabazz Delta Academy/Delta GEMS, and EMBODI – a mentoring program for young men; and Contributing to the local Samaritan Purse/Christmas shoebox projects.
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