Wamda

Pi Slice: Building a Culture of Transparent CSR

While some corporate social responsibility programs create real change, others are functional in name only, ineffective, or simply lacking...

CSR

We Are Just Scratching the Surface of Our Opportunity

In many ways, the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Middle East is very nascent. When it comes to existing models of what an ecosystem...

CoE Cards

Last Chance to Submit to eClub's Photo Competition

eClub, an nonprofit launched in connection with the American University of Beirut (AUB) to raise awareness about entrepreneurship, has...

Competitions

Livestream of Flat6Labs' Mobile Gaming Class

Want to build the next big game? Train by watching Flat6Labs's new mobile gaming classes, which will be held for the next 3 weeks, over 9...

Mobile Mobile Apps Mobile Gaming

Lessons in Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll World Forum

Last week, I attended the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford, a real celebration of change makers, of humanity, of...

Social Entrepreneurship

Are You REDe to Break into E-Commerce?

While it's apparent in the region that payment gateways, cash-on-delivery, and international duties pose significant challenges to...

E-commerce

Lebanese Company I-DAW Innovates Faster Restaurant Service

Ordering food in a restaurant can be a tricky endeavor, with orders frequently getting lost in the chaos. The elimination of paper orders...

Innovation

Creating an Egyptian Economic Miracle at Startup Nation 2.0

“The vision is to get Egypt into the top 10 list of countries by GDP in 5 years time.” This vision brought together around 50 progressive Eg...

Angel Investment Innovation Investment

Young People in the Middle East Are Ready to Innovate

Lebanese entrepreneur Habib Haddad is one of the Middle East's biggest cheerleaders for the creation of a vibrant startup culture. As...

Social Entrepreneurship Wharton

Regional

Valuation methods for SMEs in MENA [Opinion]

Valuation in the Middle East and North Africa for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is a mixture of art, science, negotiations,...

Investment

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...

Thought Leadership

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