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11 ways to be unremarkably average [Cartoon]

Lately, startup lingo has compared social media managers to gurus, developers to ninjas, and entrepreneurs to superheroes. This can be an...

Graphic Cartoon

6 tips for successfully crowdfunding your creative project

Got an idea so crazy it just might work? You’re in luck: Zoomaal, the Arab world’s only crowdfunding site, is launching its Cre...

4 incubators and accelerators that can help startups set up in Dubai

This is the third and final post in this mini-series about moving your startup to Dubai. Below, I explore the incubators and accelerators...

Incubator Advice Accelerators

How to identify a startup opportunity

In light of the exponential growth that the Arab world has witnessed over the last few years – the startup ecosystem grew from $10 million ...

Advice

3 simple ways to make a creative breakthrough at your startup

Imagine an Executive Education program designed to catapult the next generation of creative leaders—offering the very best of business s...

Inspiration Entrepreneurial Mindset How-Tos

Flat6Labs Cairo graduates six new startups and celebrates its second birthday

Cairo accelerator Flat6Labs held its 6th Demo Day yesterday, where we were treated to the now customary mix of startup stands...

Flat6Labs Accelerators

Global

If you had the chance to exit, would you sell your startup to a competitor?

Entrepreneurs are passionate by nature. They work hard to make their ideas come to life, and harder to make them survive. In a tough...

Poll Results Music Daily Deals

Meet the 6 social startups joining virtual incubator i2i from across Pakistan

[Note:this photo is of i2i's first class of startups, which graduated this January]. When Plan9 began incubating its first class of...

Incubator Support Organizations Accelerators

What did startups learn at Astrolabs' recent workshop in Amman?

After their first Scaling Online Startups (SOS) workshop in Dubai this past May, and subsequent workshops in Riyadh and Beirut,...

Astrolabs Workshops Marketing

6 people entrepreneurs should look for at a networking event

Dubai is an unusual place. The startup scene is small but growing rapidly, the majority of people are expats, and there are dozens...

SYL Workshop: “Lessons Learned from Entrepreneurs” - Casablanca

StartupYourLife, a non-profit initiative which seeks to build the startup community in Morocco, will be organizing its first workshop ...

Avoid these 10 mistakes that could ruin your company's reputation

For small businesses, reputation is everything. A report recently published by O2 shows that 72% of consumers will not forgive a small...

reputation Social Networks

Learning how to focus your startup with the Mini Entrepreneur

When trying to build you startup, it’s easy to get distracted by popular trends or a project with quick returns. But if they’re outside you...

Mini Entrepreneur Advice

Put global recruiting trends to work in your job search

New LinkedIn data may spell good news for the ever-increasing number of job seekers in the Middle East. A recently released study...

Global

What do employers look for on social media? [Infographic]

While LinkedIn is often hailed as the go-to social network for professionals, and job seekers in particular, many employers also scout a...

Job Recruitment Programme Social Media

6 lessons learned from the closure of a real estate startup in Lebanon

Bootstrapping a startup in the Arab world, let alone Lebanon, is anything but easy. And sometimes, despite launching with the support of an...

Mapping Real Estate Advice

#Let #The #Hypers #Hype, The Doers Will Do

Today, I had an interesting exchange on Twitter with the founder of one of the most promising consumer startups in the Middle East. He...

Hype

How to better understand your customers by creating personas

The success of any company directly hinges on how well it serves it customer base. One way to get a better handle on who, exactly, the...

personas Customer Acquisition

Beirut's SMEX launches an aggregator to support Arabic content online

You've often heard the statistic: while Arabic is the fifth most spoken language in the world, with 360 million Arabic speakers, only...

Aggregation Arabic Content

Startup funding: How to fuel your car [Infographic]

This past week, our Wamda Community member Osama Natto designed and posted his own infographic on his own profile, using the metaphor of a...

Funding Scaling Advice

12 productive ways to take a break at work

Whether writing a long report, entering hundreds of names into a database, or dealing with a tough client, sometimes it’s nice to take a f...

Tips Advice

The simplest way to improve your startup's chance of success

Running a start-up is extremely demanding. Whether you’re focusing on getting that product out or making sure you can pay out salaries, a...

Healthcare Expert Advice How-Tos

Regional

Why healthcare in the Arab world needs to go mobile

This piece was originally published on the Huffington Post. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) should take advantage of its...

Health Mobile Trends

15 tools that the most successful entrepreneurs use [Infographic]

For today’s entrepreneurs, finding the right management and marketing tools can be just as important as hiring the right team member. In t...

Tips Advice Infographic

Thought Leadership

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