Will Jordan's My Marbles be the next Angry Birds? TakTek Games Inks Deal with Chillingo Amman-based TakTek Games has secured a breakthrough deal this week, signing with U.K.-based mobile publishing giant Chillingo, which... Nina Curley • 13 April, 2012 Gaming Mobile Gaming
Wind Technology: Could Radical Innovation Come from MENA? The world today needs a clean and affordable energy solution to address both growing electricity challenges and the effects of global... Hassine Labaied • 12 April, 2012 Green Energy Environment
ImagineCup Calls On MENA's Best Tech Students This year, Microsoft is once again giving entrepreneurs a chance to launch themselves on a global stage with its Imagine Cup competition.... Nina Curley • 11 April, 2012 Competitions
The Danger of Entrepreneurial Passion This article was originally published on Harvard Business Review, January 6, 2010. Passion is up there with innovation in what people... Daniel Isenberg • 11 April, 2012
First MENA Business Women's Network Forum Launches Tomorrow and Friday The groundbreaking MENA Business Women's Network Forum is launching tomorrow and Friday in Dubai- join us! For the first time, 350... Nina Curley • 11 April, 2012 Conferences Women
Nominate a Social Entrepreneur for an Ashoka Fellowship Ashoka Arab World is looking for social entrepreneurs for its Fellowship program, who are social innovators with “System Changing Ideas” tha... Maya Rahal • 10 April, 2012 Innovation Social Entrepreneurship
Twitter Wars, Turks, and Tipping Points: Where We Are After ArabNet Over a week after Beirut tech conference ArabNet, I’m still reflecting on the event. While managing editor Maya and I together c... Nina Curley • 10 April, 2012 Arabnet Startup Communities
du announces Wamda as Knowledge Partner for ‘The Entrepreneur’ du is pleased to announce that it is joining forces with Wamda, the enabling platform for MENA entrepreneurs, for its innovative reality... Wamda • 10 April, 2012 Competitions du
Pi Slice: Building a Culture of Transparent CSR While some corporate social responsibility programs create real change, others are functional in name only, ineffective, or simply lacking... Nina Curley • 09 April, 2012 CSR
We Are Just Scratching the Surface of Our Opportunity In many ways, the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Middle East is very nascent. When it comes to existing models of what an ecosystem... Wamda • 09 April, 2012 CoE Cards
Last Chance to Submit to eClub's Photo Competition eClub, an nonprofit launched in connection with the American University of Beirut (AUB) to raise awareness about entrepreneurship, has... Nina Curley • 09 April, 2012 Competitions
Livestream of Flat6Labs' Mobile Gaming Class Want to build the next big game? Train by watching Flat6Labs's new mobile gaming classes, which will be held for the next 3 weeks, over 9... Nina Curley • 09 April, 2012 Mobile Mobile Apps Mobile Gaming
Lessons in Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll World Forum Last week, I attended the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford, a real celebration of change makers, of humanity, of... Reem Khouri • 06 April, 2012 Social Entrepreneurship
Are You REDe to Break into E-Commerce? While it's apparent in the region that payment gateways, cash-on-delivery, and international duties pose significant challenges to... Wamda • 05 April, 2012 E-commerce
Lebanese Company I-DAW Innovates Faster Restaurant Service Ordering food in a restaurant can be a tricky endeavor, with orders frequently getting lost in the chaos. The elimination of paper orders... Fernande van Tets • 05 April, 2012 Innovation
Creating an Egyptian Economic Miracle at Startup Nation 2.0 “The vision is to get Egypt into the top 10 list of countries by GDP in 5 years time.” This vision brought together around 50 progressive Eg... Omar Aysha • 05 April, 2012 Angel Investment Innovation Investment
Young People in the Middle East Are Ready to Innovate Lebanese entrepreneur Habib Haddad is one of the Middle East's biggest cheerleaders for the creation of a vibrant startup culture. As... Knowledge @Wharton • 05 April, 2012 Social Entrepreneurship Wharton
Regional Valuation methods for SMEs in MENA [Opinion] Valuation in the Middle East and North Africa for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is a mixture of art, science, negotiations,... Elie Habib • 04 April, 2012 Investment
The 2-Minute Opportunity Checklist for Entrepreneurs Cross-posted from Havard Business Review, March 4th, 2010. Okay, so you scored 17+ on the Isenberg 2-Minute Test, socked away... Daniel Isenberg • 04 April, 2012 Innovation
6 Lessons in Excellent User Experience Design from AachabOnline No design is perfect; there will always be something for people to complain about, or user experience (UX) designers to debate. But I... George Elkhabbaz • 04 April, 2012 User Experience Design
6 Tips for Effective Networking On the heels of Arabnet, some advice on networking:As an entrepreneur, you attend a lot of networking events and over the past two years I h... Esraa Haidar • 03 April, 2012
The Web is Darwinian: Lessons from Arabnet 2012 Today, many satisfied entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, companies, officials and others can look back at a successful third edition of... Fernande van Tets • 03 April, 2012 Arabic Content Arabnet Conferences
Cairo Accelerator Flat6Labs Seeks Diverse Startups Flat6Labs, the Cairo-based start-up Y Combinator-style accelerator, is looking for new start-ups. No surprises there. But as... Omar Aysha • 03 April, 2012 Accelerators
How to Understand a VC Term Sheet Having trouble understanding the ins and outs of the investment process or curious what terms you can expect to see in a standard term... Wamda • 03 April, 2012 Investment