PR 101: A Guide for Startups I am regularly approached by businesses, some on the cusp of existence, others barely launched, and a few even celebrating their ten year... Serene Touma • 13 January, 2013 Advertising Marketing Media
Weekly Wrap-Up: January 06-10 If you've ever stayed up late wondering how to enhance the services or products your startup offers, if you've spent hours browsing through... Wamda • 10 January, 2013 Advice Competitions CSR
Entrepreneurship is an Attitude [Pic of the Week] “Think positively, you can do it!” is a fairly cliché way to encourage others. But in reality, people generally do think negatively and ha... Glen Dalakian II • 10 January, 2013 CoE Cards Failure Pic of the Week
MyMetroTalks Brings Community-Focused Venue Recommendations to Dubai I was feeling pretty relaxed the other night, channel surfing on my own, but I felt like being outdoors without having to get all dressed... Rania Habib • 10 January, 2013 Crowdsourcing Ratings Sites
Namshi Receives Investment from Summit Partners On the heels of its $20 million investment round from J.P. Morgan and Blakeney Management this past September, Dubai-based fashion... Nina Curley • 10 January, 2013 Rocket Internet Investment Namshi
212 Capital Partners Invests in Turkish Supply Chain Design Company Solvoyo 212 Capital Partners, one of Turkey’s leading early stage venture capital funds, has announced its first investment of the year in Solvoyo, ... Nina Curley • 10 January, 2013 Investment
How to Nurture Global Ambition: A Chat with John Bradford of Springboard [Wamda TV] Springboard is an intensive 13-week mentor-led business accelerator program based in London and Cambridge that offers entrepreneurs office... Gulay Ozkan • 09 January, 2013 Accelerators Advice Scaling
First Book Exchange Social Network Launches in Egypt On December 27, 2012, Badl Kitabk officially launched the first book exchange social network in Egypt, offering their service for... Ahmed Gabr • 09 January, 2013 Book Reviews Egypt
TEDxAUC's Idea Bakers Celebrates Egyptian Entrepreneurship TEDxAUC held its second event “Idea Bakers” at the American University of Cairo (AUC) New Cairo campus, at the end of December. The ev... Omar Aysha • 09 January, 2013
Wellnesia to Indulge Dubai with New Spa and Beauty Hub In the Arab world, the web has been buzzing lately with sites offering flash sales, low prices and online booking, often for restaurants,... Maya Rahal • 09 January, 2013 Digital Marketing Ecosystem Health & Beauty
HUB Dubai Set to Launch UAE's Newest Co-Working Space On 12/12/12 12:12 PM and precisely 12 seconds Dubai time, HUB Dubai launched virtual operations; the physical space is expected... Maya Rahal • 08 January, 2013 Coworking Spaces Startup Communities
5 Easy Steps for Setting Up an E-Commerce Store in the Middle East This series by Mohanad Ghashim of ShopGo.me is part of our Demystifying E-Commerce series. It will explore various technical... Mohanad Ghashim • 08 January, 2013 Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce Payment Gateways
Learning and Development Open Forum at Shelter Dubai Organizational learning and development has become one of the most important topics in the field of management and leadership, to bring... Wamda • 08 January, 2013 Conferences Education
How to Build a Startup Community: Do's and Don'ts Since I returned to Kuwait after living abroad, I have been asking myself how we can build a startup community in Kuwait. We lag behind... Abdullah Alshalabi • 08 January, 2013 Startup Communities Startup Q8
Save Paper at Your Startup, Part 2: Invoices In the first part of the series, I wrote about digitizing your business cards. This article, the second in our series on saving paper (and... Ahmed Gabr • 08 January, 2013 Environment
Turkey Turkey Management 3.0: Agile Leadership Practices Course Scrum Turkey is hosting an Agile Leadership Practices Course in Ankara, Turkey on January 29-30, 2013. Taught by Jurgen Appelo, the... Wamda • 07 January, 2013 Developers Education