Elie Khoury

The National – Start-up Lebanese tracker of Web traffic turns profitable

Published: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010.

Woopra, a promising internet start-up in Lebanon, has become profitable and crossed the 100,000-user mark after launching its commercial service last October. The company’s web-based analytics software allows internet publishers to track, in real-time, the number of visitors to their sites. The service was launched as a free offering and attracted a long waiting list of users wishing to test the software. In October, the company discarded the waiting list, opening the system up and charging users a monthly fee depending on the volume of traffic to their sites. “The response we got from our users was amazing. They… Continue reading

The Next Web – Woopra’s co-founder, Elie Khoury, talks to TNW Middle East

Published: Monday, January 18th, 2010.

I recently had an opportunity to chat with Woopra’s co-founder, Elie Khoury. Woopra is a real-time web-analytics tool which has received numerous accolades and was recently voted as one of the top 25 products of 2009 by ReadWriteWeb. Elie is based in the picturesque area of Jbayl, Lebanon, an area known more for its historical significance, natural beauty and awe-inspring ruins than its budding start-up scene! Yet somehow, from within those ruins, this awesome jewel emerged! On why Woopra was launched… When you’re in a store, you could easily see what your customers are doing, and you could place… Continue reading

The Next Web – YallaStartup! Offers Six Lucky Winners an Entrepreneurship Course

Published: Sunday, January 3rd, 2010.

A few weeks ago we told you all about YallaStartup!, an interesting initative that was set up by Elie Khoury (Woopra), Habib Haddad (Yamli) and Sami Shalabi (Google/ Zingku); three of the rising Entrepreneurial stars in the Middle East & North Africa region (MENA). At the time, YallaStartup! was offering some lucky entrepreneurs the opportunity to take a six month entrepreneurship course offered by Potential, worth $2000, for free. Once a week course participants meet online for a few hours, allowing participants from all over the region to participate. The results are in. Six lucky winners from across the… Continue reading

The Next Web – Lebanese startup Woopra in the top 25 of 2009!

Published: Saturday, December 19th, 2009.

Woopra, a real-time web tracking application, had an honorary mention in ReadWriteWeb’s list of top products of 2009 as voted by its readers. Although at the bottom of their alphabetically ordered list, Woopra has been gaining momentum and quite a good exposure with its open API and plugin capabilities. Congratulations to founders Jad Younan, John Pozadzides and Elie Khoury! Check out the full list at ReadWriteWeb Source: http://thenextweb.com/me/2009/12/19/lebanese-startup-woopra-top-25-2009/

The National – Start-up support network launched

Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2009.

The founders of three successful start-up internet businesses have created an organisation devoted to supporting technology entrepreneurs in the Middle East. YallaStartup will act as a support network, linking entrepreneurs with venture capitalists, advisers, lawyers and others needed to get their businesses off the ground. Its founders say such support is sorely lacking across the Middle East. “An entrepreneur with an idea or a prototype should be exposed to a large set of investors and should be able to find not only investors to fund their project, but people who can add value to improve their chances for success,”… Continue reading

Pushing Pixels – Java desktop spotlight – interview with Elie El Khoury of Woopra

Published: Monday, December 29th, 2008.

Woopra desktop client is my favorite Swing application of the year, and it’s time to meet its creator – Elie El Khoury, as the Java desktop spotlight that has started with Don DeCoteau and Sam Berlin continues. Tell us a little bit about yourself. My name is Elie El Khoury, 23 years old. I live in the ancient city Byblos of Lebanon. Programming has been my hobby for more than 10 years. I was introduced to Java 5 years ago at the Lebanese American University which was the first university in Lebanon to teach Java as a main language.… Continue reading

Financial Times – Shining a light on the web

Published: Tuesday, December 16th, 2008.

When Elie Khoury, a self-confessed “computer guy” since the age of 12, started a website about playing the guitar, he struggled to find an analytical programme to give him timely data about who was looking at his website and what they were looking at. So there was only one thing for the Lebanese American University computer science student to do: invent one himself. “From the very first day we launched, we knew it was going to be a big hit,” he says, sitting next to computer screens displaying Woopra, a website analysis programme developed by Mr Khoury, 23, and… Continue reading

Executive Magazine – Cedar Triumph in Cyberspace

Published: Sunday, August 10th, 2008.

Overcoming the odds, Lebanese software gurus enter internet eminence The world’s most popular internet applications, including Yahoo, Google, Facebook and YouTube, share several interesting characteristics. Nearly all were developed by students enrolled in American universities and nearly all were aided by an American venture capital injection to successfully enter the market. Lebanese-born Elie Khoury and Jad Younan have followed more or less the same path, yet with one major difference: they developed their Woopra program in Lebanon. Against all odds, some may argue, as the Land of the Cedars can hardly be described as an IT incubator. Both Khoury… Continue reading

iLoubnan – One o One with Woopra

Published: Monday, June 9th, 2008.

Two young Lebanese webmasters have launched a brand new software of live web tracking and data analysis: after a year of hard work and analysis, Elie Khoury and Jad Younan gave life to Woopra. In so little time they struck the technology market by force, and beat all their opponents. iloubnan.info interviewed Elie Khoury. iloubnan.info: What inspired you to create a concept such as Woopra? Elie Khoury: I had a couple of websites 2 years back. I wanted to know what’s happening on my blog/website in real time and I couldn’t find a decent web analytics! So I decided… Continue reading

LAU Magazine: Woopra Analytics – Computer Science Grads Launch Industry Standard Web Service

Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2008.

“Ideas today are endless,” said LAU graduate Elie Khoury, “but we need to be creative and take actions to build upon them.” That’s exactly what Khoury, along with his fellow alumnus Jad Younan, just accomplished with the launch of a revolutionary dynamic new Web Analytics tool called WOOPRA. Khoury and Younan pointed out that the intellectual environment at LAU was crucial in their ability to not just conceptualize the idea for WOOPRA – a tool that allows webmasters to view visitors’ real-time statistics – but also to see it through to completion. Read More: Print PDF version at http://publications.lau.edu.lb/magazine/2009-11-1/pdf/laumagazine-2009-11-1-p18.pdf… Continue reading