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8 tips for revitalizing a family business

Entrepreneurship isn’t always the creation of something out of nothing. Sometimes, it’s a light bulb turning on in a young, ambitious min...

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8 New Year's Resolutions for entrepreneurs

December is always an important time for reflection, tying up loose ends, and planning the chapters we hope to write. While some of us...

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The future is mobile: here are the 3 things you need to build an app

According to mega-successful VC Bill Gurley, “we are in the midst of a critical platform transition,” from browsers to mobile app...

VC Mobile

How to build loyalty by turning traditional marketing on its head

For startups looking to launch a marketing campaign over the holidays, or starting in 2014, here’s a fun little nugget on marketing, f...

Customer Acquisition

5 tips for relaxing this holiday season

Happy holidays from Wamda! Whether you're celebrating Christmas today or unwinding during the winter lull, remember to schedule time off....

Tracking these 10 items will help you create better content

Lately, as online marketing shifts to a heavier focus on content, it seems that businesses are clambering to start...

Ignoring video marketing? These 11 stats reveal why you shouldn't

Is your business leveraging video marketing? If not, you’re not alone. In fact, according to BIA/Kelsey, just 22% of U.S. businesses plan ...

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Holiday book list: 20 essential resources for entrepreneurs

In early November, an entrepreneur asked me which books and resources that I thought would help him become a successful CEO for a...

5 tips for getting your content on Google's In-Depth Articles search result

Whenever Google introduces a new feature to search results, smart businesses will sit up and take note of the new opportunities they might...

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How to increase your company's productivity? Give your employees a break

In the most widely revered startup creation myth, there’s not a lot of sleep happening. Every entrepreneur we know works around the clock a...

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What did Lebanese entrepreneurs learn from the Dublin Web Summit?

With 10,000 attendees this year – four times the number from last year, and twenty times the number from the first event just two years a...

Web Summit Conferences

Are you driven by your heart, brain, guts, or luck?

What drives you professionally: your heart, your brain, your guts, or your luck? Tony Tjan, a serial entrepreneur-turned-VC, gave his test...

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5 tips for building a successful mobile game, from 2013's biggest app success story

There’s no secret to building a good game, especially in the Middle East. Despite the fact that people in the region – especially the Gulf ...

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Africa: an untapped opportunity for Middle Eastern startups

Cellular penetration in Africa is growing at a rate of around 4.2 percent – a rate unequalled anywhere else in the world. In terms of m...

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Meet SafirLab, a French accelerator for entrepreneurs from the Arab world

In Paris, it's not often that you’re sitting in a room with entrepreneurs from across the entire Arab world, listening to them pitch s...

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How do Saudis use social media? [Infographic]

Saudi Arabia is no doubt one of the main markets digital entrepreneurs want to dominate. With more than three million active Twitter users,...

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6 inspiring quotes for entrepreneurs from Nelson Mandela

Nelson ‘Madiba’ Mandela's life represented more than a selfless struggle for justice in Apartheid South Africa; his unw...

Expert Advice

Women's entrepreneurship and social media: the two hottest trends at Arabnet Riyadh

On December 3rd and 4th, the Arabnet Digital Summit took place in Riyadh for the second time, kicking off with a session on...

Arabnet

3 ways the Arab tech diaspora can stimulate regional development

From the Rise Up Summit (a conference dedicated to innovation and Egyptian startups), to the MENA Innovation DemoDay (a series of...

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5 tips for small businesses on Facebook

Jonathan Labin is Facebook's Head of Middle East, Africa, and Pakistan. He contacted us with some tips, based on Facebook's own research,...

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4 must-watch documentaries for entrepreneurs [Wamda TV]

The year is almost over, and many entrepreneurs take this time to reboot, take a step back, and get out of the bubble. For those looking...

Scaling

What's distracting the Middle East's workers? [Infographic]

Work-hours flexibility is not the only problem threatening employee productivity and efficiency in the work environment; 59.3% of...

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Jordan

9 common pitfalls of web startups and how to avoid them

Within six years, Jordanian web and mobile development company Spring, which was co-founded by serial entrepreneur Razan Khatib and Ahmad...

Spring

The Middle East Internet Summit

The Middle East Internet Summit, an online International broadcast where 17 Internet experts will deliver tips ideas and strategies on how...

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