Can Startappz Disrupt the Mobile Space in the Arab World? The idea of being more committed to learning than to a given product seems appropriate for the wave of young entrepreneurs entering the... Nina Curley • 19 November, 2012 Arabic Content Investment Mobile
Can Kuwait Learn from Ghana? Lessons from the Second Startup Q8 Event The startup scene in Kuwait is gaining momentum. On the 7th of November we had the 2nd StartupQ8 event and it was a lot of fun. Over 50... Abdullah Alshalabi • 19 November, 2012 Accelerators Advice Ecosystem
Heated Debates and Fresh Startups: What Stood Out at the Arabic Digital Content Conference in Amman Two weeks ago more than 43 internet and business geeks spoke to a large audience of Arabic content enthusiasts in the Jordanian capital of... Shaden Abu Al-Haijaa • 19 November, 2012 Arabic Content Digital Media Ecosystem
Training the Next Generation of Leaders in Jordan with Photography While entrepreneurship is one tool for helping young people in Jordan find new opportunities, empowering a generation can begin with... Maya Rahal • 19 November, 2012 Social Entrepreneurship
Jordan's Hashdoc Goes for a Global Market An entrepreneur at heart and techie in action, Tarek Koudsi learned a lot from his family hardware and software business in Jordan before... Shaden Abu Al-Haijaa • 18 November, 2012 Cloud Computing Innovation Oasis500
Tips from Silicon Valley for Entrepreneurs in the Arab World: MAKE Ignition Welcomes 500 Startups Don’t be an entrepreneur. Keep your day job, spend time with your spouse, play with your children, socialize with your friends, see your p... Kia Davis • 18 November, 2012 Advice Arabic Content Cloud Computing
Workspace Mesaha Supports Community Initiatives in Egypt These days, Cairo’s coffee places are busy with groups of young men and women gathered around tables, not to eat nor to chatter for fun, b... Shaimaa El Nazer • 18 November, 2012 Coworking Spaces Egypt
Weekly Wrap-Up: November 11-15 If you were part of Mix N' Mentor Amman or Beirut last week, you know that the events hosted a number of enriching conversations between... Wamda • 15 November, 2012 Advice Animation CoE Cards
How Telecom Company Orange is Creating a Culture of Intrapreneurship David Nahmani, Business Development Director at Orange, discusses how the Jordanian mobile operator is creating a culture of... Nina Curley • 15 November, 2012 Abu Dhabi Media Summit Data Digital Media
Think of the People, Not the Money [Pic of the Week] During episode two of Wamda's Mix N' Mentor in Beirut last Saturday, November 10th, one word kept coming up at the discussion tables... Maya Rahal • 15 November, 2012 CoE Cards Pic of the Week
How to Hire at a Software Startup as You Scale Despite the buzz of excitement around entrepreneurship in Pakistan, it is not always easy to entice the brightest young engineers to work... Jazib Zahir • 15 November, 2012 Advice Programme Scaling
Social Media to the Rescue: Egypt's Splinter Makes Résumés Obsolete “A year and a half ago my brother asked me to design and update his CV and I remember telling him, this is the social era man, I'm sure we w... Omar Aysha • 15 November, 2012 Digital Marketing Egypt Innovation
Building a 2020 Vision of Entrepreneurship in Lebanon: Part 2 As I discussed in my last post, building an entrepreneurship ecosystem that consistently empowers small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs)... Antoine Abou-Samra • 15 November, 2012 Accelerators Advice Ecosystem
A Chat with Kaveh Gharib of Twitter: Revolutions, Mobile, and Monetization [Wamda TV] At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Kaveh Gharib, the localization project manager at Twitter specializing in the Middle East and ... Nina Curley • 14 November, 2012 Abu Dhabi Media Summit Mobile Social Media
SocialWire Launches Optimized Ads for Facebook, Announces $2m in Investment Online advertising has yet to be proven very effective. Yet SocialWire, a company started in Istanbul by a Turkish entrepreneur, is out to... Nina Curley • 14 November, 2012 Digital Advertising Advertising Social Networks
PayPal Launches Middle East Operations with Aramex Partnership PayPal, which is already an active payment platform in the region, has announced the official launch of its operations in the Middle East... Nina Curley • 14 November, 2012 Payment Gateways E-commerce Delivery
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