Wamda

Regional

User Growth 101: From 500 to 5 million

I sat down to talk with two mobile developers today. They were anxious to discuss the app they had been building over the past few months....

users growth

Global

How to pitch your idea in less than a minute

Rabih in communication mode. Elevators are remarkable feats of engineering. They have revolutionized the way we think of mobility and...

speech communication Pitch

Jordan

Founding a second company: risk or investment?

Four years after launching Sitat Byoot, the female focused e-commerce site, CEO Saeed Omar is about to embark on a new journey in the...

Sitat Byoot Startup Jo Jordan

Regional

5 ways to build your brand strategy on social networks

Launched earlier this year, Brand US Social (BUS) has already made quite an impact on the social and digital media scene. A London...

strategy Branding Social Media

Regional

Finding Solutions: Roundtables at MENA ICT workshop 4 scenarios facing entrepreneurs

The Wamda team took over the Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) in Amman last week at the MENA ICT Forum 2014, as it hosted a session of...

Zain Jordan Workshops

Regional

What makes a successful wedding site in the MENA?

There is no doubt that planning a wedding requires a lot of time: from setting the wedding date, to inviting guests, and picking the...

Roundup regional Wedding Industry

Global

Is 'design thinking' a path to innovation?

With change happening at an exponential rate, companies have felt an increasing demand to develop their ability to innovate, even to the...

Design Innovation

Regional

5 common scale-up mistakes

Startups the world over, and in the Middle East in particular, often aspire to scale and develop their business in new markets. However,...

AtlanticLIVE Scaling Failure

Global

If you're a startup, don't act like a big business

It seems everybody has a startup these days. I’m the co-founder of www.Melltoo.com, a social network that connects buyers and sellers in t...

traditional business Global Advice

Global

Leadership and anxiety: 6 challenges every leader must confront

Credit: Pioneers Festival Two weeks ago, Jerry Colonna, former VC turned coach for tech CEOs, gave a workshop at the Austrian tech...

event Leadership Expert Advice

Jordan

4 lessons on scaling from 2014's MENA ICT Forum

Last week, Amman’s King Hussein Business Park played host to the 2014 edition of the MENA ICT Forum, a two-day event that brought together ...

mena ict forum Jordan

Regional

The Middle East has the highest unemployment rate in the world, what can be done?

David Silverman via Gerry Images. This article is a cross post with The Huffington Post. The biggest threat from and to the Middle East...

Huffington Post Employment

Egypt

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst: how to close down a business in Egypt

During the excitement of setting up a company, usually the last thing on an entrepreneur's mind is shutting it down. But for many...

levari law Levari law

Regional

How to develop competitive strategy

The Wamda Research Lab’s new report on investment activity in the MENA region highlights several alarming data points. The finding that i...

strategy

Regional

6 regional VCs agree: To support the ecosystem, focus on making it profitable

This is the second of a series of interviews with top investors from the MENA region, in an attempt to shed light on funding opportunities...

Q&A WRL Wamda Research Lab

Global

5 entrepreneurs on how to attain work-life balance [Wamda TV]

Limiting working hours is a big deal for both Anghami’s Elie Habib and GoNabIt founder Sohrab Jahanbani. “It’s bad project management to all...

work life balance stress

Regional

What do investors in the MENA want from startups?

This is the first of a series of interviews with top investors from the MENA region, in an attempt to shed light on funding opportunities...

investement Q&A WRL

Global

Best practices for ecommerce SEO (Part II)

Earlier this week we shared five tips on how to get the most out of the SEO for your ecommerce site. Here are another five current and...

SEO

Global

Best practices for ecommerce SEO (Part I)

Whether you’re only just thinking of starting an online store or you’ve already launched into the fray, you’ll quickly find that there’s a w...

SEO

Global

A university instructor's take on how to foster entrepreneurship in the classroom

The author with one of her classes at Lebanese International University. They say that entrepreneurship can’t be taught, however, my e...

Education

Global

8 things successful entrepreneurs do to cope with stress

During our recent Mix N’ Mentor in Beirut, Wamda’s CEO Habib Haddad asked mentors and entrepreneurs how they relieve the...

Tips

Regional

Rise Up Cairo kicks off with strong feelings about investment

AUC’s downtown campus is currently playing host to the Rise Up conference, a well-organized and attended celebration of entrepreneurship w...

Cario RiseUp

Global

Could Google's Quality Score make or break your startup?

Yesterday I wrote about what a Quality Score was and how it was measured; today I’m going to tell you about how you can improve it and let y...

quality score Google

Egypt

Egyptian law firm helping entrepreneurs find their legal footing

The legal procedures necessary for establishing a startup are considered the first and most important steps entrepreneurs have to...

law Egypt Legal

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