Wamda

8 Tips on How to Approach Getting Investment

As an entrepreneur you are going to face the experience of sitting down with investors. The experience might be quite overwhelming and...

Getting the Arab Youth into Employment

Throughout 2011, youth from across the Arab world have occupied streets, squares and other public places to protest a lack of inclusion, a...

Full List - Final Results of the Best MENA Startups of 2011

Due to popular request, we are now posting the full final results of the Best MENA Startups of 2011 poll, by percentage. More than 20...

China's Haxlr8r Accelerates Hardware Startups; Wamda to Connect Arab Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs who have been looking to manufacture hardware cheaply in China now have better access to infrastructure, with the launch of...

Girls Take the Lead as Sherkitna Trains Public High Students in Entrepreneurship

A new initiative is launching in Jordan to help public high school students develop entrepreneurship skills during the school...

Review Site Jeeran Launches Arabic iPhone App with Geolocation

Online local review site Jeeran is now solving one of the biggest issues facing consumers in many Arab cities: easily contacting local...

Endeavor

BasharJobs Celebrates One Year of Transforming Job Recruitment in Egypt

Online job recruitment in the Middle East is a hassle. Yet offline job recruitment is expensive. This conundrum has long frustrated...

Digital Photobooth FishFayce Launches in Kuwait

When digital photobooth FishFayce came to the Celebration of Entrepreneurship (CoE) last year to capture photos of investors,...

Volunteer Platform Nakhweh Launches Campaign to Promote Social Change in Jordan

Aspiring social entrepreneurs in Jordan now have another reason to push their ideas out the door. Nonprofit Nakhweh, which promotes...

eCloset Launches Online Competition Showcasing Jordanian Fashion Designers

Jordanian startup eCloset.me, a website for mixing and matching clothes and sharing them with your friends, has launched a new fashion...

Fashion

How to Turn User Research into Good Design with Storyboarding

After following my latest two posts about user research in user experience design, you now have research results, but most likely you’d l...

User Experience Design

ImHalal Sends Wake Up Call to Arab Investors As It Goes To The Deadpool

In September 2009, during the month of Ramadan, a young Kuwaiti-Iranian entrepreneur named Reza Sardeha launched “ImHalal”, a new search eng...

Announcing the Wamda Best MENA Startups of 2011

The results of the Wamda Best MENA Startups of 2011 are in! After we nominated several startups in 7 categories, startups nominated by our...

How MOBIbucks is Bringing Mobile Payment to the Middle East

Mobile payment company MOBIbucks announced a partnership last week with Middle East Payment Services (MEPS), a consortium of seven banks...

Wamda Wins Webpreneur Academy Award for Best Entrepreneurship Content & Community

This holiday season, the Webpreneur Academy launched the "2011 Webpreneur Academy Awards", designed, not so differently from Wamda's Best...

Designing a Modern Arab Identity for your Brand

Last time we spoke about the clichés being made in developing Modern ‘Arab’ Identities, but never identified what makes one successful. Whil...

Best MENA Startups of 2011 To Be Announced Monday

Voting on Wamda for the Best MENA Startups of 2011 has ended, as of yesterday at midnight EET (Beirut time). All votes placed after that...

Gradberry Offers Small Businesses Access to Fresh College Graduates in the Middle East

With Bayt.com’s recent survey on job perceptions revealing that most college grads in the Arab World prefer to pursue government and civil s...

8 Tips for Successful Online Marketing

The online world can be tough to navigate sometimes, especially if you are trying to sell or market a product or service. There are so many...

The Entrance of Amazon into the Turkish Market and What It Means for MENA Entrepreneurs

The Internet retail giant Amazon has acquired a minority stake in the Istanbul-based online flower and gift store Cicek Sepeti. This is...

Revenge of the Nerds: Why Engineers Are in Demand

Students entering college or those looking to get another degree may want to read this report before deciding on a major. Professional...

Lessons from Zynga: How Identified is Using Game Mechanics to Become the LinkedIn of Facebook

After Zynga’s $10 billion IPO, it’s clear that adding game mechanics to a vast social network is a recipe for success. Yet the recipe isn’t ...

Last Week to Vote for the Best MENA Startups of 2011

Voting for the Best MENA Startups of 2011 ends on January 3rd! Be sure to place your vote before then, for startups in the following...

Thought Leadership