1) Since June 2006. Last year gave equity to two team members in exchange for work they already completed.

2) Didn't apply

3) Didn't start looking. It's bootstrapped so far and I want to continue doing it this way until I no longer can. Not that there are any valley-type VCs in Saudi Arabia, but was approached by a couple of interested investors. One didn't really get web startups. Still in talks with the other one though. Investment is not currently needed, but can certainly accelerate growth.

4) http://www.qaym.com (in Arabic)