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Entrepreneurship 101: Make something people want.

Making money is it's so much easier than building something great. This essay is derived from a talk by Paul Graham at CISCO’s Startup S...

10 Tips for Starting a Business from Your Home

This article appears courtesy of CISCO's Small Business Resource Center. Starting a home-based business is never easy. From a...

The Basics of Networks: What You Need To Know

When looking at networking basics, understanding the way a network operates is the first step to understanding routing and switching This...

How to Launch a Marketing Campaign

In business, “turning on the faucet” is a metaphor for flooding your market with the full spectrum of marketing and business development. ...

VCs and option pools: Swimming in the deep end

Understanding the "option pool" will help entrepreneurs get to grips with early-stage employee rewards and incentives. Scott Edward ...

How to Position Your Startup Against Competition

Every entrepreneur has competition. It's always important to admit it, but not to the point where you believe it's irrelevent. Jason C...

Warren Buffett: How to Communicate

Lou Hoffman is CEO of The Hoffman Agency, a public relations firm with multiple offices in the US, Europe and Asia. This story first...

Stability or startup: Keys to making the choice

Effective planning can help overcome the fears about taking the leap into launching a new venture Ro Choy is a veteran Silicon Valley tech...

How To Create a Good Relationship with a VC

Venture capital funding is a relationship, not a transaction, argues Nat Goldhaber Nat Goldhaber is co-founder and managing director of...

How much should you look for in your seed round?

The challenge of how much money to seek in early-stage funding remains one of the most complex an entrpreneur can face. Will Herman is an...

How to Create an Effective Business Plan

When an entrepreneur has identified a potential business opportunity, the next step is developing a business plan for the new venture. What...

Freemium: A business model startups can’t ignore

The word “freemium” may be less than four years old, but the business model it describes – offering basic service access for free and then ...

Can "lean" co-exist with "innovation"?

“Lean” has come to mean an integrated, end-to-end process that combines the waste elimination, just-in-time inventory management and a cul...

How to Negotiate with a VC over Stock Options

Scott Edward Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker Corporate Law Group, PLLC, a law firm specializing in the representation of...

How To Deal with Venture Capitalists

Steve Sammut, a senior fellow and lecturer at Wharton School of Business, talks to Arabic Knowleldge@Wharton about how entrepreneurs can...

5 Startup Legal Pitfalls You Need to Avoid

Starting your business is an exciting time. But as you focus on the big picture, it’s easy to ignore the minutiae of organizing your c...

How Your Business Can Benefit from Google Voice

Will free phone calls for Gmail users spur another internet revolution? And how can your small business benefit? By Kartik Ram Google is ...

Buying power: How Aramex is Facilitating E-commerce

E-Commerce has started to explode across the Arab World, with payment flexibility and logistics expertise helping to drive momentum. The ...

E-commerce

Bassel Ojjeh on Building a Business

After spells at both Microsoft and Yahoo, Bassel Ojjeh is well placed to understand the potential of technology. In his last role, he was...

Entrepreneur in Focus: Elie Khoury

This article first appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of The Explorer, Aramex's thought-leadership magazine that investigates issues...

Just Capital: Seed Funding in Jordan

This article first appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of The Explorer, Aramex's thought-leadership magazine that investigates issues ...

Entrepreneur in Focus: Jihad Alammar of Qaym.com

Part social network, part Zagat’s guide, Qaym.com specialises in user-generated reviews of restaurants across the Middle East. Founded in R...

Rebuilding Babylon: New Opportunities in Iraq

The post-Saddam years, with the removal of sanctions and a new low-tax environment, created a bonanza of opportunities. Seven years later,...

Success Writ Large: Samih Toukan on Entrepreneurshp

Now CEO of the Jabbar Group of internet-focused companies, Samih Toukan made his name as one half of the Maktoob story. He hopes that his ...

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