Wamda

The 2-Minute Opportunity Checklist for Entrepreneurs

Cross-posted from Havard Business Review, March 4th, 2010. Okay, so you scored 17+ on the Isenberg 2-Minute Test, socked away...

Innovation

6 Lessons in Excellent User Experience Design from AachabOnline

No design is perfect; there will always be something for people to complain about, or user experience (UX) designers to debate. But I...

User Experience Design

6 Tips for Effective Networking

On the heels of Arabnet, some advice on networking:As an entrepreneur, you attend a lot of networking events and over the past two years I h...

The Web is Darwinian: Lessons from Arabnet 2012

Today, many satisfied entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, companies, officials and others can look back at a successful third edition of...

Arabic Content Arabnet Conferences

Cairo Accelerator Flat6Labs Seeks Diverse Startups

Flat6Labs, the Cairo-based start-up Y Combinator-style accelerator, is looking for new start-ups. No surprises there. But as...

Accelerators

How to Understand a VC Term Sheet

Having trouble understanding the ins and outs of the investment process or curious what terms you can expect to see in a standard term...

Investment

12 Mobile Predictions for 2012 from Google at Arabnet

Mobile was one of the biggest buzzwords during Arabnet 2012, and this talk from Ahmad Hamzawi (@ahamzawi), Google’s Head of New Business D...

Arabnet Google Mobile

Maroc Numeric Fund Invests In Moroccan Daily Deals Site MyDeal.ma

The first Moroccan group buying website MyDeal.ma announced investment of 2 million Moroccan Dirhams (~$240,000) by the Maroc Numeric Fund...

Daily Deals Mydeal.ma MNF

Learning Online Marketing at g|SaudiArabia 2.0

This comment on g|saudi is co-authored by Nora Maghraby and Muna Alamer of Naqa’a Environmental Enterprise. With four simultaneous tracks t...

Google

TechCrunch Beirut Meetup Today with Wamda, AltCity, and Seeqnce

As cross-posted on TechCrunch, TechCrunch is hosting a Beirut Meetup today, co-organized with Wamda along with co-working space AltCity and ...

Startup Communities

Qordoba Launches Arabic ePublishing and eReading Platform

[Diclosure: Wamda has invested in Qordoba]. Authors looking to digitize or self-publish Arabic books online or distribute Arabic...

Digital Media

New Mobile Gaming Studio Game Cooks Launches Facebook Competition

As one half of the team that developed popular mobile game Birdy Nam Nam launched Gamabox, the other half of the team, brothers Lebnan and...

Gaming

Inside Istikana's Arabic Video Content Coup

It’s been a good year for Istikana. One year ago at digital media conference Arabnet in Beirut, the Arabic online video company launched a H...

To Succeed in the Gulf, Offer the Best Price and Be Mindful of Relationships

Jan De Nul Group is a company specialized in dredging and civil engineering works. Launched in 1938 in Belgium, Jan De Nul originally...

Arabic Freelancer Platform Analancer Launches in Gaza

Winning the third place in Startup Weekend Gaza this past December, AnaLancer has launched an “expert-sourcing platform” that connects ...

Job Recruitment

8 Ways Jordan Created an Enabling Environment for Tech Entrepreneurs

So Arabnet is here. If you are a regular visitor to the Beirut conference you are going to see a very strong Jordanian presence. For a...

Fadi Ghandour

Get Ready for the Ideathon and Startup Demo at Arabnet Digital Summit

Arabnet Has Launched in Beirut! Today's Developer Days at the Hilton Beirut Metropolitan Palace have kicked off, featuring...

Conferences Arabnet

Riyada Enterprise Development Acquires 50% Stake In The Entertainer

Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) has announced its intent to acquire a 50% stake in The Entertainer, a consumer services company that...

Investment

Arabic Mobile Gaming Platform Gamabox Launches

Jean Christophe Hoelt and Souad Merhebi, half of the team that launched Birdy Nam Nam, have now launched Gamabox, a platform for game...

Gaming

Jordanian Studio Quirkat Releases Arcade Game Zonkt!

Chosen to give the impression of a robotic metal sound, Zonkt! is the name of a new iPad game launched by Amman-based videogame development...

Gaming

KAUST Launches Wa'ed Ideathon, Announces Seed Fund Winners

What's new at The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)? If you're an aspiring entrepreneur, plenty: The univeristy is...

Competitions Investment

Beirutna: A Platform To Locate, Socialize and Share Favorite Places In Lebanon

A couple of years ago, four young Lebanese became frustrated enough by the lack of restaurant guides in Beirut that they spent a month...

Food & Beverage Mobile Apps

Building a Creative Brand on Arab Pop Culture in Jordan

As the warm weather slowly returns, look out for what has become a seemingly ubiquitous feature of West Amman fashion: the Jo Bedu t-shirt....

Fashion Innovation

A Chat with an Imaginary Small Business CEO in Saudi Arabia

Being an entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia is relatively easy. According to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2010 data, Saudi Arabia ranks 1...

Innovation Trends

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