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Women in Jordan resolve to be changemakers: Conclusions from our W4Women roundtables

“I didn’t negotiate well because I was too shy,” one woman admitted at our Wamda for Women roundtables in Amman. After finding that women...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

Global

Is your idea good enough to become a great startup? [Infographic]

Your friends might like your idea, but how do you know it's good material for a viable startup? The Founder Institute, a global network of...

Ideas

6 ways to boost your sales through social media

The question of return on investment (ROI) from social media spending continues to linger in the mind of many social marketers. And while...

Social Networks Facebook Social Media

Weekly Wrap-Up: June 16-20

This week's hot topics revolved around the sharing economy and collaborative consumption models. Could these models help consumers share...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Riding the e-commerce wave, price comparison site Bkam announces investment from Jabbar

Egyptian price comparison site Bkam.com has announced its launch in the UAE, following recent investment from Jabbar Internet Group...

Aggregation Jabbar Investment

Crowdinvestment takes off with a bang in the Middle East: Nabbesh raises $30,000 in 24 hours on Eureeca

It’s 10am in Nabbesh’s offices in Dubai. The team is a bit speechless. “We’re at 29%,” someone says excitedly. Founder Loulou Khazen sounds...

crowdinvesting Crowdfunding

Global

5 reasons why running a startup is NOT like being a father

There are countless blog posts out there that explain why having children is like running a startup - because they keep you up at night,...

Parenting Advice

10 characteristics of a great startup leader

Today’s startup workplaces demand great leaders who inspire enthusiasm, loyalty and trust in their employees. Particularly in a young b...

Leadership Team management Team

Will this French startup attract Arab travelers with its trip recording app?

Though it’s been tried by Arab companies before, and failed, French startup Trekea Media, Inc. is expanding their real-time mobile t...

Travel Mobile

Google for Entrepreneurs supports new co-working space in Egypt

Are Egypt's tech entrepreneurs ready for a co-working space with device testing facilities? Google for Entrepreneurs has announced support...

Expert Advice Training Coworking Spaces

Does the sharing economy break the law? What's different in the Arab world?

Last week, we discussed how the sharing economy could empower people, create jobs, and help people bypass malfunctioning infrastructures...

Sharing Economy

Will a new startup accelerator focused on supply chain and logistics take off in Dubai?

These days, it seems incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere in the Arab world, especially in the UAE. One of the latest...

Logistics Supply chain Incubator

A look at the IFC's new $400m fund for SMEs in the Arab world

Support for small businesses continues to pour into the Arab world. Last month, the International Finance Corporation...

Funding models Financial management Jordan

Rocket Internet’s Amazon clone Jumia raises $35m; how much is enough?

Africa-focused Amazon clone JUMIA just raised $35 million in new investment from global telecoms and media company Millicom. First ...

Cloning Rocket Internet Investment

Update: Facebook resolves Tor issues

UPDATE: Tor has posted that Facebook is not blocking Tor. "A high volume of malicious activity across Tor exit nodes triggered...

Internet Freedom Technology Censorship

How does Bitcoin threaten the global status quo?

“Bitcoin is the biggest invention since the internet,” Pamir Gelenbe, Partner at Hummingbird Ventures, asserted in a chat las...

Bitcoin Virtual Currency

How blog comments can help you connect to influencers and investors

Sometimes a comment is all it takes to open new doors. Commenting on a website helped me start contributing at Wamda, connect to...

Community Social Networks

Will free VoIP apps disappear from the Middle East? A look at Saudi Arabia's Viber ban

While VOIP (Voice over IP) applications facilitate over represent more than 34% of the total time spent on international...

Skype VOIP Saudi Arabia

Desado announces investment from iMENA Holdings; how does it stack up in flash sales?

It’s been said that there needs to be more linguistic creativity when it comes to branding in the Arab world. The announcement of D...

Flash Sales Scaling Investment

LeWeb says the sharing economy is going to change everything

Every year, the European startup scene awaits the new theme of LeWeb, the popular two day web conference based in Paris, that now boasts a...

Sharing Economy

AUC launches new incubator for startups across Egypt

“In Egypt, we need to create 800,000 jobs every year, but you have to start somewhere,” says Dr. Sherif Kamel, Dean of the American Uni...

Incubator Egypt Accelerators

What does a Saudi investment firm look for in a startup?

While most startups in the Arab world are aiming to enter the Saudi market, its own entrepreneurial scene is slowly emerging. One of the...

Venture Capital Investment

Global

How creating a collaborative culture could benefit your startup

Cross-posted from the Oui Share on April 16, 2013. Building a collaborative culture at your startup is a great way to enhance...

collaborative economy

Meet the Moroccan smartphone apps that won the Méditel Apps Challenge

In 2012, only 16% of Moroccans owning a mobile phone had a smartphone. And yet, smartphone penetration grew 30% from 2011 to 2012,...

Thought Leadership

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