Wamda

Meet the Semifinalists from Google Ebda2

At Google's Ebda2 event this past Tuesday, the Egyptian start-up competition otherwise known as “Start With Google,” the 50 remaining compet...

Competitions Google

Learning to Love the Competition at Google's Ebda2

Ebda2, the Egyptian start-up competition otherwise known as “Start With Google” that began some months ago, reached the semi-final stage thi...

Competitions Google

Social Media Trends in Saudi Arabia and the UAE [Infographic]

Did you know that 3 out of 7 internet users in the Arab World are on social media? And that in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, logging on to...

Trends

Entrepreneurs, Be Tough, Be Global -- Export Now

Cross-posted (with a slight adaptation) from Forbes, June 9, 2011. Puerto Rico is one example of a small market- a four...

Google, Woopra, or Clicky: Which Web Analytics Platform Works Best for You?

Whatever you do online, whether you have a website for your small business or run a larger e-commerce site, whether you run AdSense or do...

Analytics Google Woopra

Online Donations Bring the Middle East and Africa Closer to American Donors

Last year, over US$290 billion in America was donated to charities, but surprisingly, less than 10% was donated online. With 240 million...

A Lesson in Leadership: Fadi Ghandour's Visit with Tony Fernandes of Air Asia

He walks in to greet us and starts cracking jokes. Full of passion and charisma, his knowledge of every single detail of his company is...

Fadi Ghandour

Cash Flow is Never More Important Than Your Mother: Happy Mother's Day from Wamda

Today is Mother's Day on Wamda. We just wanted to remind you that, while Ken Morse said that "cash flow is more important than your mother...

g|saudi arabia Returns This Weekend

Saudi techies get ready- this March, Google is once again hosting g|SaudiArabia. The event aims to engage with communities of developers, b...

Google Workshops

Angel Investment in MENA: What Works, What Could Improve

So you have been incubated for three months and you have built a solid demo. Unfortunately, your burn rates (negative cash flows) are...

Angel Investment Oasis500

Egypt NEGMA Conference Launches to Connect Egyptian Entrepreneurs to Diaspora

After the events of Egypt inspired members of the Egyptian diaspora community to get involved with rebuilding the country, a group of ...

Conferences Diaspora

Google Zeitgeist Young Minds Competition Calls on Changemakers in MENA

Young entrepreneurs with an idea for changing the world may want to apply to Zeitgeist Young Minds, a competition to find 10 pioneers and ...

Competitions

Coca-Cola Offers Summer Entrepreneurship Education Program to MENA Students

Less than two weeks are left to apply for the Coca-Cola Scholarship Program 2012. The program is offering Algerian, Egyptian, Jordanian...

Competitions

10 Tips for Success in Entrepreneurship from Ken Morse of MIT

At the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Competition Workshop session, Kenneth P. Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director of the MIT...

Global

Company Valuation: Is There a Formula?

Today at the 5th Annual MIT Enterprise Forum Entrepreneurship Workshop, Professor Tarek Kattaneh of the Olayan Business School at AUB...

Investment

Watch the MIT Enterprise Forum Workshop Livestream

Watch the Livestream from the 5th Annual MIT Enterprise Forum Entrepreneurship Workshop: Writing a Business Plan and Winning the...

Competitions MIT

Saletab Brings the iPad 3 to the MENA Region

In case you've been living under a rock when it comes to technology, the iPad 3 is out today. What's new? It's gone HD with the display, ...

E-commerce

Design Thinking to Disrupt Lebanese NGOs

Desmeem’s “D-Factor” Day witnessed scores of Lebanese designers of all stripes trying out at the Babel Theater stage this past weekend for a...

Education

Want to Rent out That Spare Room? The Growing Popularity of 'Collaborative Consumption'

The founders of Internet startup Airbnb were accustomed to rejection. Joe Gebbia, Brian Chesky and Nathan Blecharczyk peddled to venture...

Coworking Spaces

Ernst & Young Announces Randa Ayoubi as Jordan Entrepreneur of the Year 2011

Ernst & Young has announced the winners of its Jordan Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Award: Randa Ayoubi of Jordan-based digital content...

Competitions

8 Hot New Trends at Arabnet Digital Summit 2012

"It's not a conference. It's a festival," Arabnet founder Omar Christidis corrected me when we discussed the Arabnet Digital Summit 2012....

Conferences Arabnet

Looking for an Affordable Place to Go Out in Cairo? No5rog Has Answers

Two months ago, young Egyptian entrepreneur Kirolos Alfy pitched online entertainment guide No5rog at Startup Weekend Cairo, and...

Mobile Apps

4 Ways to Innovate in Online Travel in the Middle East

The regional behemoth airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways, continue to inspire us with their global dominance. Yet despite...

Innovation Mobile Travel

Kiva, Silatech Join to Boost Loans to Young Arab Entrepreneurs

As The Next Web reported, crowdsourced microfinance platform Kiva has announced a partnership with Silatech, to support entrepreneurs...

Investment

Thought Leadership

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