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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

How the world will replace employees with entrepreneurs [Infographic]

The age of the traditional job, and the security that comes with it, may soon be coming to a close. It’s been said that entrepreneurship i...

Infographic

3 critical ways to boost revenue by making your website SEO-friendly from the beginning

If you’re launching a business or bringing your existing business online, you may have wondered when it would be best to focus o...

SEO Design User Experience Design

Crowdsourced tools for startups: a master list

Startups looking for extra resources to help them scale should check out this list of crowdsourced tools for startups, compiled by Tom...

Lean Methodology collaborative economy Expert Advice

3 simple ways to screw up your startup

I was recently asked to give a talk at Lamba Labs on three ways to screw up your startup. But which three to choose? Note: Lamba...

Expert Advice Advice Mentorship

5 steps for choosing your customer acquisition channel

This piece was originally published on Brian Balfour's blog, Growth. SEO, SEM, Facebook Ads, content marketing, affiliates,...

SEM Customer Acquisition SEO

What’s the biggest career mistake you would gladly make again? 11 leading entrepreneurs tell us.

“Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom." -William Jordan In career, and in life, we make mistakes. You can’t prevent them and avoiding ...

Mistakes Leadership Advice

7 lessons I learned during my journey as an 'Entrepreneur Wannabe'

Even though I’ve been on an entrepreneurship journey for more than four years, I still consider myself an “entrepreneur wannabe,” because ...

Advice Failure

Is multitasking actually counterproductive?

Most employees are on the lookout for ways to achieve multiple goals simultaneously. In fact, many non-multitaskers perceive themselves as...

Advice

Do you really need to write a business plan? [poll results]