Younes Nader is a founder, commercial analyst, and independent researcher based in the UAE. He is a serial founder in media and growth, and leads a pre-seed technology venture; he provides independent strategic counsel to founders and leadership teams, and is completing a solo-authored systematic literature review on AI and entrepreneurial cognition.
Younes Nader is a founder, commercial and financial analyst, and independent researcher based in the UAE. He founded and leads Dumat, a pre-seed technology venture.
Alongside Dumat, he produces independent, first-principles market-entry and operational analyses, applying the same commercial discipline to both his own venture and to businesses he has no insider access to. He is also completing a solo-authored systematic literature review on AI and entrepreneurial cognition; full details are on the Research page.
He has represented his school at international business competitions in the UAE, Oman, and beyond.
Younes’s current research examines how AI decision-support systems change entrepreneurial cognition, referred to publicly as RECAST (AICE in the submitted manuscript), to avoid collision with an unrelated Microsoft Research initiative of the same name. The full paper, method, and figures are on the Research page.
Manuscript under submission. Preprint available on SSRN.
Pieces are in progress across academic and business press outlets. Confirmed placements will be linked here as they go live.
The Investor’s Handbook · Medium Can You Build a Consulting-Grade Market-Entry Strategy Using Only Public Data? I Tried. A first-person account of building the Costco brief entirely from public sources. → Data Driven Investor · Medium What 10 Years of Middle East Clean Energy Data Actually Shows Findings drawn from the ME ESG Clean Energy Analytics Dashboard. →Past appearances and topics available for future talks, panels, and briefings.
Clean energy conference. Spoke as VoltStar team representative alongside Dr. Nabih Bedewi, delivering market insights on electric motorsport and clean energy.
Represented VoltStar at a future-mobility exhibition, presenting to industry visitors and press.
Presented to a live audience of 500-plus people as part of a three-person team; placed second among 36 teams from 17 countries.
Presented a live mobile app prototype and financial model to a panel of professors and industry experts.
- ·Building a company at 18, and what changes and does not change about the commercial discipline required
- ·AI as a structured research and analysis tool, rather than a shortcut, for early founders
- ·Civic technology and smart-city go-to-market models in the GCC
- ·What a systematic literature review actually involves, for a non-academic audience
- ·AI-augmented decision making for early-stage founders
- ·Market-entry analysis built entirely from public sources
- ·Operational diagnostics and translating operational metrics into EBITDA impact
- ·Civic technology and smart-city go-to-market models
- ·Using AI as a structured analytical tool rather than a shortcut
- ·Automation bias and trust calibration in founder decision making
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