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Shaping the Entrepreneurial Future of Egypt

The 2012 AUC Research Conference, held this past week at the university's New Cairo campus, was an exercise in uniting Egypt's...

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

4 Reasons Why Smart Businesses Go Green

So green is now a trend in the Middle East – even though it’s still to catch on in Saudi Arabia. It's also a term that's been going ar...

Green Energy

How to Create Banner Awareness (Or Bypass Blindness)

User-friendly design guru Jakob Nielsen held out a finding in one of his studies for 10 years, but finally finally to publish it in 2007....

User Experience Design

Building a Learning Management System in Saudi Arabia: Acadox

During our undergraduate studies in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) we, Mohammad Al-Hareeqi, and Nedal Mourad, and...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Accelerators MIT

Journey to Amman Part 2: Impressions of Jordan's Tech Startups

When I visited Oasis500 on my recent trip to Jordan, I had the opportunity to meet with 14 startups incubated there, for around 15-20...

Ecosystem Oasis500 Startup Communities

Journey to Amman: 5 Tips from Startups in the Arab World's Tech Capital

At the end of last month, Fadi Ghandour talked about the 8 different steps Jordan took to create an enabling environment for tech...

Accelerators Ecosystem Oasis500

James Nakagawa of Mobile Healthcare: 'Entrepreneurship Is about Sacrifice'

James Nakagawa never studied medicine, and until 2003, he headed a company that helped financial firms deliver online trading services. But...

Health

TourTwist Puts Crowdsourced Spin on Tourism in Lebanon

Some startups don't just create commercial ventures; they work to turn communities of ordinary people into little engines of commerce....

E-commerce Innovation Travel

How Moroccan Daily Deal Site Hmizate Faced Down Competition

After working for eight years in the tech sector in the United States, Moroccan entrepreneur Kamal Reggad decided to return to his home...

E-procurement Daily Deals Hmizate

Can Policy Makers Create an Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship?

This piece is cross-posted and adapted slightly from The Economist, November 16, 2010. Zebras are beautiful. They are powerful. They...

Ecosystem

How Did You Build Your Team? [Pic of the Week]

You've heard it many times- a one-man show is not the most effective route in entrepreneurship. We've seen investors get wary of a team of...

CoE Cards Team Pic of the Week

Zawya's Multimillion Dollar Sale to Close Within 6 Weeks

It's not just the sleek new interface that's evolving at Middle East business news portal Zawya. The media outlet is preparing for a...

Dokkankom Launches an eBay for the Middle East

E-commerce site Dokkankom launched this weekend, bringing the region an eBay-like platform that allows vendors to create customized online...

E-commerce

5 Elements that Distinguish Successful Entrepreneurs, from Endeavor's Dubai ISP

Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend Endeavor’s 42nd International Selection Panel (ISP) in Dubai. For those who d...

Endeavor Conferences

Book Review: Applying Lessons from The Lean Startup to the Arab World

The Lean Startup is required reading for anybody serious about entrepreneurship. In the swift, engaging read, Author Eric Ries sets forth a...

Fadi Ghandour to Step Down as Aramex CEO, Focus on Entrepreneurship

In a move that surprised many yesterday at Aramex's annual conference in Dubai, Fadi Ghandour has announced that he is stepping down as CEO...

E-commerce Fadi Ghandour

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Competitions du

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