Wamda

10 ways to improve your performance at work

Successful professionals create value by finding a need and meeting it. They are unique in being able to create new products, services,...

Tips Team

4 reasons why sustainability should matter to your startup

Amidst a massive rethink of how we do business, global markets have begun embracing sustainability as an integral part of strategy and a...

Sustainability Social Entrepreneurship

Why education reform won’t succeed without a cultural revolution

What does it mean to be educated? Nowadays, anyone who goes to school and receives a degree after spending a few years in university is...

Education

Saudi entrepreneur launches a microblogging platform to help users tackle their goals

The impatient bloggers of the world have tumblr and Twitter for their microblogging, but now, thanks to an entrepreneur in...

Saudi Arabia

How a Palestinian band crowdfunded their coming album

In the Middle East, indie musicians often struggle to find consistent income in a small and fragmented market. It can be difficult...

Artist Entrepreneurs Music Crowdfunding

European mobile voucher startup tests Dubai's market

With daily deals potentially on the decline, the time might be ripe for a return to basic coupons; TWOFORONE GO is a new mobile...

Dubai Mobile

Meet Egypt's new entrepreneurship magazine: Ideaneurs

Entrepreneurship is about failure just as much as it is about success. That's the idea behind Ideaneurs, a...

5 things the Ethiopian government could do to boost entrepreneurship

When it comes to entrepreneurship, Ethiopia is riddled with contradiction. A stunningly beautiful, tremendously friendly and fiercely...

Policy Government Ecosystem

Meet The Winners of the HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament 2021

Early this May, three forward-thinking companies from the Middle East and North Africa took home the top prizes at the...

Sustainability Wharton Competitions

Weekly Wrap-Up: May 26-30

A number of the stories on Wamda this week highlighted passion, and turning it into your daily bread. Find out what challenges the ...

Weekly Wrap-Up

How to raise your kids to be entrepreneurs

Some children may not be born to be lawyers or doctors, or to get good grades in a traditional school, but they might have other skills...

Education

Cairo’s PushBots introduces simple tweet-to-notify push notifications

Cairo startup PushBots has just released a disarmingly simple way for app managers to send notifications to their app users...

How this French entrepreneur launched a telecom service in Tunisia

This piece is part of a new series on expat entrepreneurs.e Almost all entrepreneurs, at least for a time, share the same concern:...

Telecommunication Expatriate entrepreneurs

Global

Rethinking success: why entrepreneurship may not be for everybody

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur one day; I love innovation and creating new things. I used to read books and blogs...

Advice

Launching a fishing startup in the Gulf

“I used to go fishing with my uncle, but once I graduated it was difficult without my own boat,” says Kuwaiti entrepreneur Abdullah Als...

Dubai Incubator Sports

Government-backed investment in Egypt: Does it benefit entrepreneurs?

For many entrepreneurs in the Arab world, funding is the main obstacle standing between them and their dreams. The majority of young...

Egypt Investment

Meet the Egyptian entrepreneur trying to build a digital brain

Coauthored with Mazen Aly, Egyptian Artificial Intelligence Ph.D. student at Max Planck Computer Research Institute in Germany. "In order...

Data Egypt Technology

Middle East Venture Partners invests $1.9 million in three scaling companies

With a history of investing in tech and e-commerce ventures, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) is now diversifying a...

Venture Capital MEVP Scaling

Meet the group of friends organizing a Startup Weekend roadshow in Morocco

In Morocco, Startup Weekends have been wildly popular. Eight weekends have been organized in a two year span, with over 142 ideas...

Startup Weekend

5 reasons you should accept a new job, even if it terrifies you

When I was applying for my last job, which was outside of my field of study or any previous experience, a colleague gave me a great piece...

Tips Advice

Saudi woman entrepreneur rethinks how we make Arabic coffee

Making Arabic coffee is a complicated and delicate process. The coffee beans must be properly roasted, ground, brewed, then boiled before...

Coffeehouses Badir Saudi Arabia

YouTube and CairoDar Launch education portal for Egyptian high school students

Students studying for tawjihi in Egypt now have a new online resource: YouTube and CairoDar's new education portal, which will provide...

Students EdTech Education

Could Morocco's Made in Medina be the next Time Out for the Arab world?

Famous Moroccan city guide Made in Medina has now expanded to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beirut and now Bruxelles, Belgium. So how did a...

Franchising City Guides Scaling

The challenges of launching a startup in Doha

Entrepreneurs are hard to come by in Qatar; small and medium-size enterprises make up only 15% of the economy and only about 2% of Qataris...

Consulting Training Ecosystem

Thought Leadership

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