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Weekly Wrap-Up: December 16-20

This has been a week of looking back and planning ahead. What are you excited about for next year? What are the most valuable experiences...

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Though Painful, Failure is Redeemable [Pic of the Week]

Failure is not the end of the world. More often than not it marks the beginning of something new, affording entrepreneurs a...

Failure CoE Cards Pic of the Week

How to contribute to Wamda's Community Blog

Starting today, the Wamda community can share their own news, thoughts, experience or even tips and tricks from their entrepreneurial...

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Favorite Stories of 2012 from Wamda’s Editorial Team

As the year comes to a close, we're looking back at the startup news we’ve covered in 2012. It's been a busy year with more startup news t...

Ecosystem Innovation Top Lists

When is the Right Time to Quit Your Job? [Poll Results]

Following our recent Facebook poll for the Wamda community, we have compiled the answers to give a short readout on what Wamda’s readers a...

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Palestinian SMS Platform Souktel Raises $1 Million from Sadara Ventures

Souktel, one of the fastest growing startups in Palestine today, is set to enter a new era with a round of $1 million in investment from...

Investment Mobile Mobile Apps

Entej Works to Connect Egypt's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

What do you do when you come up with a great project idea? Of course, you start looking for partners and team members, probably through...

Ecosystem Egypt Job Recruitment

Egypt's Startup Reactor Powers Up its First Acceleration Cycle

The Innoventures’ Startup Reactor (SR) accelerator launched recently, with a pitching session at the luxury Kempinski hotel by the Nile. O...

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Mallna Makes Arab E-Commerce More Social, Adds Gamification

While only 43% of internet users in the Middle East and North Africa have shopped online, according to research by OneCard, Jordanian site...

E-commerce Social Media

How to Ask Your Users for Feedback

No matter which kind of venture you choose to build and invest your time and skills in, there is no doubt that it’s in your best interest t...

Advice

Jordan

Jordan's Quirkat releases first game from the Arab World for PlayStation Mobile

Alongside PlayStation’s recent launch of PlayStation Mobile (PSM), Jordanian gaming startup Quirkat recently released a new game,...

Quirkat

Egypt's Angels Get Serious: Behind the Scenes at a Cairo Angels Pitch Event

The Cairo Angels (CA) business angel group has been going for about a year now, and I was happy to attend their latest regular pitch...

Angel Investment Egypt

How to Balance Your Daily Job and Your New Startup Project

By mid-2006, I decided to start a project I had been thinking about for awhile and really excited about: building the first Arabic...

Advice

Tips from an Omani Entrepreneur at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit

I attended the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, hosted by Entrepreneurs of Arabia, in Dubai this week and found it to have great panel...

Advice Conferences Ecosystem

iOS App Abjad City Teaches Kids the Arabic Alphabet

What happens if you find yourself living in a foreign country where no one speaks your native language, and you are try to teach...

Arabic Content Education Mobile Apps

TEDxCairo 2012 Reveals Optimism Despite Political Turmoil in Egypt

Depsite Egypt's recent angst, TEDxCairo went ahead with its 2012 showcase event “Collisions” at the AUC’s New Cairo campus. Altho...

Egypt TEDx

Mashaweer Pioneers Personal Assistance Services in Egypt

Should you happen to get stuck in traffic and not be able to pull off some chores during a hard working day, don’t hesitate to rely on y...

Egypt

How to Register a Representative Office for a Foreign Company in Lebanon [Legal Advice]

This series on registration and incorporation in Lebanon comes to Wamda courtesy of Michel Ghanem of Khalaf Law Firm and Lebanon Offshore, b...

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Dubai's Game Minion Acquired by Corona Labs in Silicon Valley

Yesterday, Dubai-based mobile app development platform Game Minion was acquired by Corona Labs in Palo Alto, California. Combining to...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: December 09-13

Throughout your entrepreneurial journey, you will often be reminded of why connections and mentorship are important. Support is equally as...

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Social Responsibility is about You [Pic of the Week]

Entrepreneurship is not about the money. Yes, making money is important and a strong incentive for innovation, but there are a lot of...

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Entrepreneurs from Indonesia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Malaysia Win GIST Tech-I Competition 2012

The Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Tech-I 2012 Competition came to a close yesterday at the...

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Egyptian Site re-Indexes The Islamic Period on Interactive Map

Imagine a time machine that takes you back in time to visit Baghdad in the Abbassid Era, when you could roam its streets, experience its...

Technology TEDx

GEMS Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Brings Students From Around the World to Dubai

After introducing a new entrepreneurship curriculum in their schools and recently inspiring our list of entrepreneurship programs for high...

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