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Arabic shows clear growth on Facebook

The rapid growth in Portuguese and Arabic is just the latest sign of the change taking place on Facebook. By Chris Morrison. This article...

Access-To-Finance: an Analysis of Egyptian Firms

by Ayman Ismail Access-to-finance is a key aspect of entrepreneurial development as well as economic growth in emerging economies. As...

Access-To-Finance and Economic Development

by Ayman Ismail Almost a century ago, an Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter(1), popularized the idea that entrepreneurship is at the...

Could Free Be Your New Path to Profitability?

Entrepreneurs in the tech space may have to build a business model around giving their product away for nothing and monetizing the audience...

The Rise of the Super Angel

A new class of investor in the Gulf looks to bridge the gap between seed-funding and venture capital. What will this mean for the region’s e...

BOOK REVIEW: Everything Bad is Good for You

It is perhaps of no little comfort that someone has decided that hours spent watching mass-market television, twitching thumbs and...

BOOK REVIEW: Mastering the VC Game

Business ideas are a dime-a-dozen. But as every entrepreneur knows, it’s getting hold of the dime that is the challenging part. Funding is t...

BOOK REVIEW: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take

It is perhaps a truism to suggest that people are more in thrall to stories than products, but it’s no less a telling an observation for i...

BOOK REVIEW: Prosperity Without Growth

There has long been a tug of war between the continual search for economic growth – endless, exponential and necessary – and the ava...

BOOK REVIEW: Business Model Generation

An innovative, colorful introduction to business models, Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Generation is drawn from 470 practitioners ...

Fake Vintage Website Advertisements

Thie article was originally posted on Urlesque by Cole Stryker. Brazilian ad agency Moma designed some fake posters advertising Facebook,...

Seriously Funny: Jordanian comedy portal Talasim

Late last September, Talasim.com, took one of the six winning spots at the UK's Seedcamp, earning 50,000 Euros in funding. But as the...

Sweet Success at Long Last: Franchise Sugar Daddy's

It hasn’t always been an easy ride for Fadi Jaber, founder of Sugar Daddy’s bakery. Despite its unique concept, the business aspect of run...

Going Global After a Decade at Eskadenia Software

Product innovation and success in industry are two faces to a hard currency in Jordan. The environment for growing industry is challenging...

Abraaj Capital's Vision of Corporate Governance

A presentation by Abraaj Capital on Corporate Governance.How Does Culture Influence Behaviour? - The conduct of business of every firm...

Corporate Governance

Habib Haddad: Localization: Imitation or Art?

When the Chinese internet giant QQ released Fanfou a few years ago many criticized it as an obvious clone to twitter. The same again...

The Arab entrepreneurship opportunity

June 14th, 2010 YallaStartup Habib (This is cross posted from Habib Haddad’s blog) The Middle East and North Africa region is home to 350 M...

The Pioneers of Jabal Amman – Books@Cafe

Books@Cafe owner Madian Al Jazira is perhaps the pioneer who brought Ammanis to the oldest and most authentic neighborhood – Jabal Amman a...

Innovative Solutions for Environmental Problems

In the world of waste water treatment, there are chemicals...and usually more chemicals. But when one innovative Jordanian company saw an...

Waterless Car Washing Franchise KeenWash

How much water does it take to make a grimy car gleam? The answer might not be as much as you think, as thousands of Jordanians are now...

Maya Zankoul Sketches the Species of Entrepreneur

. . . . . . . . Today we are defining entrepreneurship. What are the different species of entrepreneur?........... The content of...

The Investment Environment in Jordan

Challenges and Opportunities Challenges are opportunities in disguise. The solutions to these challenges create the opportunities. For...

Quirkat Studios: Staying True to Arab Culture

This is not just a story about electronic gaming. Nor is it about Quirkat, the Jordanian studio billed with creating the important strategy...

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