The Story of Kauffman Foundation's Support for Entrepreneurship: A Chat with Thom Ruhe In the Middle East, we’ve all heard the arguments for entrepreneurship’s economic impact, especially its potential to alleviate rising une... Nina Curley • 06 December, 2012 Angel Investment Ecosystem Education
How to Post Arabic Content Online: A Google Hangout Tutorial If you feel frustrated by the lack of Arabic content on the Web, and would like to get familiar with some hot tips on how to write digital... Maya Rahal • 05 December, 2012 Arabic Content Digital Media Social Media
How to Register for a Copyright in Lebanon [Legal Advice] This series on registration and incorporation in Lebanon comes to Wamda courtesy of Michel Ghanem of Khalaf Law Firm and Lebanon Offshore, b... Wamda • 05 December, 2012 Legal Advice
A Chat with Joi Ito: Why Agile Startups are More Likely to Succeed [Wamda TV] This is part one of a three part video interview with Joi Ito, an entrepreneur, investor, director of the MIT Media Lab, and previous ... Nina Curley • 05 December, 2012 Advice Ecosystem Innovation
Keeping Business in the Family: Peru's Iasacorp International [Case Study] This is the fifth installment of a series on Wamda featuring companies in emerging markets around the world. Iasacorp International, f... Wamda • 05 December, 2012 Aureos Aureos Case Studies Expansion
Jordan's Wysada to Launch One Kings Lane Clone for the Middle East You’ve heard of Desado. Now meet Wysada.com, the Jordan-based One Kings Lane clone launching in the Middle East. Set to go live in D... Nina Curley • 05 December, 2012 Design E-commerce
Focus Entrepreneurship Policy on Scale-Up, Not Start-Up Cross posted from the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, November 30, 2012. For more on scaling and the role of government in... Daniel Isenberg • 05 December, 2012 Government Scaling
Entrepreneur of the Week: Mohammed Kazim of Allinque [Wamda TV] This week's entrepreneur of the week is Mohammed Kazim, the founder of Allinque, a personal assistance service for the United Arab... Nina Curley • 04 December, 2012 du Entrepreneur of the Week Personal Assistant
10 Sentences You Should NOT Include in Your Pitch to Investors in the Middle East Every investor has seen a pitch that has made them wince. When pitching, it pays to plan to think big and plan to scale, but also to have a... Nina Curley • 04 December, 2012 Advice Investment Pitching
How the Middle East Tweets: Rankings of the Most Connected Arabs on Twitter [Report] Curious who's most connected in the Arab world on Twitter? A recent report on "How the Middle East Tweets" reveals the region's 50 most... Glen Dalakian II • 04 December, 2012 Social Media Social Networks
Building a Culture of Sustainable Development in Bahrain In a deceptively gentle British cadence, Leena Al Olaimy firmly gets right to the point when it comes to sustainable development in... Nina Curley • 04 December, 2012 Ecosystem Social Change Social Entrepreneurship
Syria Explained: Syria Deeply Maps Conflict in Context with New Media Tools Far more complex than a simple revolution or call for reform, the conflict in Syria continues to fascinate and appall its witnesses, as its... Nina Curley • 04 December, 2012 Digital Media Education
Expanding Job Resources for Young Professionals in the Arab World [Wamda TV] At the Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program event during Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) in Beirut last month, ticklemybrain Founder... Glen Dalakian II • 03 December, 2012 Programme Job Recruitment
Turkish Gaming Startup ArcadeMonk Turns to the Arab World [Wamda TV] During the Webrazzi Summit, we chatted with Omer Ersoy from ArcadeMonk, a social and mobile Turkish gaming company, about their stategy... Wamda • 03 December, 2012 Facebook Mobile Gaming Scaling
12 Facts to Celebrate the 20th Birthday of SMS [Stats] On December 3, 1992, Neil Papworth sent the world’s first ever SMS (Short Message Service) text from the UK through the Vodafone n... Glen Dalakian II • 03 December, 2012 Ecosystem Mobile SMS
Meet the Winners and Best Ideas from MIT's Social Innovation Camp in Lebanon After a final round of 14 pitches, the Startup Weekend-style Beirut Social Innovation camp came to a close at AltCity last night, as judges... Nina Curley • 03 December, 2012 Accelerators Competitions Conferences