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Creating an Egyptian Economic Miracle at Startup Nation 2.0

“The vision is to get Egypt into the top 10 list of countries by GDP in 5 years time.” This vision brought together around 50 progressive Eg...

Angel Investment Innovation Investment

Young People in the Middle East Are Ready to Innovate

Lebanese entrepreneur Habib Haddad is one of the Middle East's biggest cheerleaders for the creation of a vibrant startup culture. As...

Social Entrepreneurship Wharton

Regional

Valuation methods for SMEs in MENA [Opinion]

Valuation in the Middle East and North Africa for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is a mixture of art, science, negotiations,...

Investment

The 2-Minute Opportunity Checklist for Entrepreneurs

Cross-posted from Havard Business Review, March 4th, 2010. Okay, so you scored 17+ on the Isenberg 2-Minute Test, socked away...

Innovation

6 Lessons in Excellent User Experience Design from AachabOnline

No design is perfect; there will always be something for people to complain about, or user experience (UX) designers to debate. But I...

User Experience Design

6 Tips for Effective Networking

On the heels of Arabnet, some advice on networking:As an entrepreneur, you attend a lot of networking events and over the past two years I h...

The Web is Darwinian: Lessons from Arabnet 2012

Today, many satisfied entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, companies, officials and others can look back at a successful third edition of...

Arabic Content Arabnet Conferences

SMEX Releases A Guide To Create Facebook Pages with Impact

Social Media Exchange (SMEX), released earlier this week a new Arabic-language guide Creating Facebook Pages with Impact (Arabic): A Guide ...

Digital Marketing

Cairo Accelerator Flat6Labs Seeks Diverse Startups

Flat6Labs, the Cairo-based start-up Y Combinator-style accelerator, is looking for new start-ups. No surprises there. But as...

Accelerators

How to Understand a VC Term Sheet

Having trouble understanding the ins and outs of the investment process or curious what terms you can expect to see in a standard term...

Investment

Qordoba Wins Arabnet's Startup Demo Competition [Wamda TV]

May Habib and Darine Sabbagh from Qordoba share their reactions with Nina Curley of Wamda just a few minutes after Qordoba was announced as...

Arabnet

12 Mobile Predictions for 2012 from Google at Arabnet

Mobile was one of the biggest buzzwords during Arabnet 2012, and this talk from Ahmad Hamzawi (@ahamzawi), Google’s Head of New Business D...

Arabnet Google Mobile

Maroc Numeric Fund Invests In Moroccan Daily Deals Site MyDeal.ma

The first Moroccan group buying website MyDeal.ma announced investment of 2 million Moroccan Dirhams (~$240,000) by the Maroc Numeric Fund...

Daily Deals Mydeal.ma MNF

Learning Online Marketing at g|SaudiArabia 2.0

This comment on g|saudi is co-authored by Nora Maghraby and Muna Alamer of Naqa’a Environmental Enterprise. With four simultaneous tracks t...

Google

TechCrunch Beirut Meetup Today with Wamda, AltCity, and Seeqnce

As cross-posted on TechCrunch, TechCrunch is hosting a Beirut Meetup today, co-organized with Wamda along with co-working space AltCity and ...

Startup Communities

Qordoba Launches Arabic ePublishing and eReading Platform

[Diclosure: Wamda has invested in Qordoba]. Authors looking to digitize or self-publish Arabic books online or distribute Arabic...

Digital Media

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