15 Tips For Pitching to Investors from Culture Shift in Cairo Karen McGregor, a social investor from the Scottish investment firm FirstPort, gave a workshop during the Culture Shift event about how to... Omar Aysha • 14 May, 2012 Angel Investment Investment Negotiation
The Importance of Social Entrepreneurship for the Arab World: Rama Chakaki and Roland Daher [Wamda TV] Rama Chakaki of Baraka Ventures and Zeedna and Roland Daher, Head of Business Development at Wamda, discuss their impressions of the NYU... Kamel Al-Asmar • 13 May, 2012 Competitions Social Entrepreneurship
tasmeemME Continues Palestinian Museum Logo Design Competition Update: the deadline has now been extended to May 31st! Submit now. It’s probably been a minute since you’ve heard from creative community ... Nina Curley • 13 May, 2012 Design Digital Media
Meet the Teams that Pitched at Cairo Culture Shift The British Council Culture Shift event in Cairo this month brought together an interesting mix of teams and ideas: Competing ... Omar Aysha • 13 May, 2012 Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation
Creating a Culture Shift in Cairo Fill a room with equal numbers of people from the arts, software developers, NGO volunteers, and business professionals. Now sprinkle some ... Omar Aysha • 13 May, 2012 Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation
Ana Academy: Turning Talent Into Entrepreneurship [Wamda TV] At Ebda2, the startup competition organized by Google in Cairo, Yasri al Zahhar from Ana Academy explains how the platform allows anyone... Omar Aysha • 13 May, 2012 Education
Creating a Culture of Hacking for Social Good in the Arab World [Wamda TV] Sana Odeh of Faculty Liaison for Global Programs of Computer Science at New York University and Affiliated Faculty at NYU Abu Dhabi,... Kamel Al-Asmar • 12 May, 2012 Education Social Entrepreneurship
Egyptian Company KarmSolar Wins HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament 2021 The HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament, held this past Monday and Tuesday in Dubai, challenged entrepreneurs to produce innovative... Nina Curley • 10 May, 2012 Green Energy Innovation Environment
Step Mini-Conference Draws Dubai Entrepreneurs to Discuss Creativity and Innovation On Friday April 6th artists, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered for the STEP Mini-Conference, a forum for ideas and inspiration... Kia Davis • 10 May, 2012 Coworking Spaces Startup Communities
Debate Me: Egypt's Naqeshny Challenges You to a War of Words Naqeshny, a new debating social network, challenges its participants to engage on issues, rather than being dragged into exchanges based on... Fernande van Tets • 10 May, 2012
KAUST Announces Startup Showcase Winners The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has announced the two winners in its second round of VentureLab, a startup... Nina Curley • 10 May, 2012 Competitions Mobile Apps Trends
M&A's Overlooked Pitfall: The False Negative Plenty of merger deals should never happen: Buyers are too often attracted to "false positives" in targets that are overvalued. Less... Knowledge @Wharton • 10 May, 2012 Acquisitions
MIT Announces 14 Finalists in Arab Business Plan Competition Of the 50 teams that the MIT Enterprise Forum accepted into the semifinal round of the Arab Business Plan Competition, the... Nina Curley • 09 May, 2012 MIT MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? [Wamda TV] This video was originally published on the BabsonMedia YouTube channel on March 29, 2012. "Can entrepreneurship be taught?" an interviewer... Daniel Isenberg • 09 May, 2012
Global 7 people you cannot afford NOT to have on your startup team Investors are lined up, the website is done, glossy promotional material with smiling faces is all set, your core team is pumped, and you... Bushra Azhar • 09 May, 2012 Programme Job Recruitment Team
Differentiating a Daily Deals Site in Dubai: Pradeep Menon of DealGobbler Pradeep Menon, part investor and part entrepreneur, is the founder of Deal Gobbler, a Dubai-based daily deal website. Menon is also among... Mo Ali Yusuf • 08 May, 2012 Daily Deals Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce