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Business Development Tips for Startups: Part 1

Business Development is vital to your startup. If sales is the backbone of business, business development is then the spine of sales. It...

Changing the World Isn't Easy: Advice for Social Entrepreneurs

Inclusive capitalism, disruptive innovations, triple bottom line, scalability… My head is abuzz with catchy expressions after spending the p...

Social Entrepreneurship

An Example of Good User Experience Design: UAE-based MACVITA

A small break from the usual crash courses in UX is long overdue. For this post, I am going to run a quick review of a site that I was...

User Experience Design

List of Teams from Startup Weekend Amman

Here's a full list of the teams that pitched and won at Startup Weekend Amman. Teams- feel free to send me your contact information or add...

Startup Communities Startup Weekend

"The District" Launches in Cairo to Offer Startups Co-Working Space

For an early stage entrepreneur, the most important first step in creating a business might be simply stepping out of the house and finding...

Coworking Spaces Startup Communities

Knowledge@Wharton and HCT Launch Innovation Tournament for Green Ideas in the Middle East

Knowledge@Wharton and the Higher Colleges of Technology are getting serious about green entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Af...

Competitions Wharton

African Startup Launches SMS Marketing Platform For Businesses

Three months ago, African entrepreneur Natalino Mwenda launched Rasello, the first platform allowing African small businesses to...

Mobile Marketing SMS

Comprehensive Guide for Setting Up Google Analytics

When you aren't technically-minded, setting up an anlaytics platform like Google Analytics on your site can seem scary. There's all...

Analytics

Who Created Value at Startup Weekend Amman?

This past Saturday evening marked the end of an intense 54-hour run of entrepreneurial ambition. Startup Weekend Amman, the first event in...

Startup Weekend

Jordan’s Entrepreneurs Persevere at Startup Weekend Amman

Startup Weekends may seem like a great way to dip a toe into the business of building a startup. Yet as mentors, writers, and spectators...

Startup Weekend

A Look Inside du's New TV Show, "The Entrepreneur"

It's about time that the Middle East had its own entrepreneurship-related TV show. Now, thanks to UAE telecom company du, a small business...

Competitions du

Tough Calls: How 40 CEOs Made Their Career-defining Decisions

CEOs make decisions that is their job. Every decision, however, does not carry the same weight. Many are routine; some are significant. A...

Digital Conferences in the Arab World: What Needs to Change

Make no mistake. When a Digital Conference takes place in the Middle East, the online communities are always there tweeting their hearts...

How Can Entrepreneurs Access and Utilise Diaspora Networks?

This is a selection taken from Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network, by Daniel Isenberg of Babson College and William Kerr of Harvard...

Diaspora

CSR in Saudi Arabia: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

When I tell people that I make a living by helping companies in Saudi Arabia become more responsible towards their communities and the...

CSR

How to Get the Most Out of Startup Weekend

How can you achieve the maximum benefit from Startup Weekend? You can increase your chance of winning at Startup Weekend by 100%, by...

Startup Weekend

New Collective Workspace MAKE Launches in Dubai

Leith Mathews came to Dubai in 2007 to work in the emirate’s booming food & beverage industry. Having a genuine passion for the i...

Food & Beverage Startup Communities Coworking Spaces

What Makes An Entrepreneurship Ecosystem?

The question of how to build a fully fledged entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Middle East is one that we look to address daily at Wamda....

Trends Ecosystem

Advancing Arabic Content for Women: Maroc Numeric Fund Invests $300K in Majalatouki

The Maroc Numeric Fund (MNF) announced last week an investment of 2.6 million Moroccan dirhams (around US$ 300K) last week in Majalatouki,...

Investment Women

Pioneering a Gourmet All Natural Dessert Line in the UAE: Catwalk Cow

When Samia Ataya first started dessert line Catwalk Cow two years ago in the United Arab Emirates, she had a vision of an ideal product...

Food & Beverage

Abraaj Capital Announces Acquisition of SME-Focused Fund Aureos Capital

Abraaj Capital is continuing its expansion across the region, today announcing its acquisition of Aureos Capital, a global private equity...

Reawakening Oman’s Entrepreneurial Spirit at the Entrepreneurs Jam

Oman Entrepreneur's Network held their second Entrepreneurs Jam this past Monday at Mood café in Muscat. The event, designed to create ...

Startup Communities

Wikipedia To Build Arabic Pages with Cairo Initiative

Following Yahoo!'s partnership with ictQATAR comes an announcement by Wikipedia that it seeks to generate more Arabic content on its...

Digital Media

Yahoo! Boosts Arabic Digital Content Creation in Deal with ictQATAR

Aspiring digital media entrepreneurs in the region have a new reason fire up projects this year. Yahoo! and ictQATAR announced a strategic...

Digital Media

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