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Focus Entrepreneurship Policy on Scale-Up, Not Start-Up

Cross posted from the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, November 30, 2012. For more on scaling and the role of government in...

Government Scaling

10 Sentences You Should NOT Include in Your Pitch to Investors in the Middle East

Every investor has seen a pitch that has made them wince. When pitching, it pays to plan to think big and plan to scale, but also to have a...

Advice Investment Pitching

How the Middle East Tweets: Rankings of the Most Connected Arabs on Twitter [Report]

Curious who's most connected in the Arab world on Twitter? A recent report on "How the Middle East Tweets" reveals the region's 50 most...

Social Media Social Networks

Building a Culture of Sustainable Development in Bahrain

In a deceptively gentle British cadence, Leena Al Olaimy firmly gets right to the point when it comes to sustainable development in...

Ecosystem Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Syria Explained: Syria Deeply Maps Conflict in Context with New Media Tools

Far more complex than a simple revolution or call for reform, the conflict in Syria continues to fascinate and appall its witnesses, as its...

Digital Media Education

12 Facts to Celebrate the 20th Birthday of SMS [Stats]

On December 3, 1992, Neil Papworth sent the world’s first ever SMS (Short Message Service) text from the UK through the Vodafone n...

Ecosystem Mobile SMS

Meet the Winners and Best Ideas from MIT's Social Innovation Camp in Lebanon

After a final round of 14 pitches, the Startup Weekend-style Beirut Social Innovation camp came to a close at AltCity last night, as judges...

Accelerators Competitions Conferences

Online Review Site Wins Startup Weekend Doha

More than 30 budding entrepreneurs pitched their innovative business ideas at Startup Weekend Doha this past weekend. Forming their...

Job Recruitment Startup Weekend Taxi + Traffic

Dubai Entrepreneurs Debate Startup Challenges at Shelter's New Entrepreneurs Roundtable

In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week in Dubai two weeks ago, Shelter invited up-and-coming entrepreneurs to share their...

Advice Ecosystem Coworking Spaces

Reflections on Bahrain’s Shifting Entrepreneurship Landscape

After an energetic Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), which included a week-long agenda of entrepreneurship activities organized by the...

Advice E-commerce Ecosystem

Morocco's Stagiaires Makes Intern Recruitment Simple

Until recently, job offers on the Internet in Morocco were confined to general classifieds websites or amateur job boards. It was not until...

Job Recruitment

How to Register a Branch of 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...

Advice Legal

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 25-29

This week's posts were especially rich in legal advice whether it comes to setting up your business in Lebanon, or what it takes to boost...

Advice Angel Investment Arabic Content

Make your Mark for Future Generations [Pic of the Week]

Today and every Thursday is "Arabic Thursday" in the Wamda offices. All the team speaks only Arabic, in an attempt to encourage the use of...

Arabic Content

How to Register an Offshore Company in Lebanon [Legal Advice]

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

Legal Advice

Developing the Investment Industry in the Arab World: Guest Post from Middle East Venture Partners

This guest post is co-authored by Walid Hanna and Walid Mansour of Middle East Venture Partners, a Beirut-based Venture Capital...

Ecosystem Investment

Arabia500 Announces 130 of the Fastest Growing Companies in the Middle East

In anticipation of the Arabia500 gathering on December 10th at the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, the...

Conferences Ecosystem

Beirut Creative Cluster Works to Increase Collaboration Among Local Companies

One year ago, the Beirut Creative Cluster (BCC) was just an idea developed by Berytech. Today, the cluster is set to become a hub for...

Animation Conferences Design

How to Join Arabic Web Days and Post Arabic Content

Last week, Arabic Web Days launched as a new initiative to support Arabic content online, co-created between Yamli and Vinelab and suppo...

Arabic Content Digital Media Media

Incorporating a Limited Liability 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 Of...

Legal Advice

How to Register a Company in Lebanon [Legal Advice]

To help companies launching or expanding into Lebanon understand how to register a company in the country, we are launching a legal series...

Legal Advice

Bahrain’s Majaal Makes Warehousing Startup Friendly

Speculating about the rise of tech companies is fun, but with e-commerce on the region on the rise, the seemingly mundane expansion of a...

E-commerce Expansion Innovation

Regional

Kids Love Arabic: A New Educational Arabic iOS Story Platform for Kids

Many parents, including myself, invest time and money trying to find an educational application for their children, to keep them from...

Arabic Content Education Mobile Apps

iFood's Mobile App Rises to the Top of the Food Delivery Pack in Jordan

Jordan has changed in a variety of ways since I lived there a year ago; perhaps a small win given the recent turmoil is that it’s become m...

Food & Beverage Mobile Mobile Apps

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