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Building a Political Marketing Campaign - Casablanca, Morocco

For their first major event, New Work Lab is organizing a video conference with Betsy Hover, the Director of Digital Organizing for the...

After Mix n’ Mentor Riyadh, Astrolabs is traveling the region to help startups scale

On the heels of their first “Scaling Online Startups” weekend in Dubai and their workshop at Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh last month, Astro...

Mix n Mentor Advice Mentorship

Global

How to run a crowdfunding campaign: 10 Tips from entrepreneurs who succeeded and failed

Any entrepreneur who doubts the power of crowdfunding can simply look to the example of Hind Hobeika, a Lebanese engineer who recently...

Crowdfunding Investment

Mix N' Mentor Casablanca

The next stop on Wamda's 2013 Mix N' Mentor Roadshow, Mix N’ Mentor Casablanca, will take place on July 6, 2013. MnM Casablana will be a o...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

Intel Business Challenge Middle East and North Africa 2013 Finals in Abu Dhabi

The Intel Business Challenge Middle East and North Africa 2013 is the gateway to the Intel Global Challenge, bringing together the best e...

Competitions

Casablanca gets a new co-working space: New Work Lab launches to support Morocco's entrepreneurs

The idea of having co-working spaces where independent workers can work and socialize has already spread like wildifire...

Coworking Spaces

Moroccan American Bridges 2013

The AMPA, Association of Moroccan Professionals in America, is organizing the 7th edition of its annual The Moroccan American Bridges...

How Welfare Association is supporting entrepreneurs in Palestine

In 1983, four Palestinian businessmen who were living in the Gulf came up with the idea for a support organization for those living in the...

Incubator Support Organizations Accelerators

Why education reform won’t succeed without a cultural revolution

What does it mean to be educated? Nowadays, anyone who goes to school and receives a degree after spending a few years in university is...

Education

10 ways to improve your performance at work

Successful professionals create value by finding a need and meeting it. They are unique in being able to create new products, services,...

Tips Team

Global

Rethinking success: why entrepreneurship may not be for everybody

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur one day; I love innovation and creating new things. I used to read books and blogs...

Advice

How this French entrepreneur launched a telecom service in Tunisia

This piece is part of a new series on expat entrepreneurs.e Almost all entrepreneurs, at least for a time, share the same concern:...

Telecommunication Expatriate entrepreneurs

How to raise your kids to be entrepreneurs

Some children may not be born to be lawyers or doctors, or to get good grades in a traditional school, but they might have other skills...

Education

5 reasons you should accept a new job, even if it terrifies you

When I was applying for my last job, which was outside of my field of study or any previous experience, a colleague gave me a great piece...

Tips Advice

Dubai entrepreneur serves up affordable golfing equipment in the Gulf

“I’m an avid golfer, a scratch golfer,” says Dubai-based entrepreneur Dean Cheesley. "But I also have an entrepreneurial streak." To bring ...

Sports E-commerce

Meet the group of friends organizing a Startup Weekend roadshow in Morocco

In Morocco, Startup Weekends have been wildly popular. Eight weekends have been organized in a two year span, with over 142 ideas...

Startup Weekend

The challenges of launching a startup in Doha

Entrepreneurs are hard to come by in Qatar; small and medium-size enterprises make up only 15% of the economy and only about 2% of Qataris...

Consulting Training Ecosystem

10th Annual Conference on Innovation Based Regional Development in Riyadh

The Technopolicy Network will be hosting the 10th Annual Conference on Innovation Based Regional Development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on N...

Saudi Arabia Conferences Innovation

Why every child in the Middle East should be taught to code

Coauthored by Carine Abi Akar and Nafez Dakkak. Ever since the successful launch of Facebook in 2004, and perhaps as early as the first...

Coding EdTech Education

10 ways to be a lifelong learner and make it count at your job

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write; but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn,” said wri...

E-Learning Tips Mentorship

These three startups failed in Jordan and they're proud of it. Here are their 5 honest tips.

[Editor's note: "Building a culture around failure is the only way to build a healthy ecosystem," a seasoned startup veteran told me...

Failure

Lebanese entrepreneur named one of the five most powerful women in gaming

Last week, Lebanese entrepreneur Reine Abbas of Wixel Studios was named one of the five most powerful women in gaming by Inc.com. Abbas...

Mobile Gaming Gaming Women

The Mini Entrepreneur becomes a WamdaCard member

Curious about how WamdaCard can help your startup? In this episode, the Mini Entrepreneur learns about WamdaCard's offers, applies for the...

WamdaCard

The Arab Spring through the eyes of Zaid

Zaid Farekh is as Jordanian as Mansaf. Born, bred and schooled in Jordan, he's a hardworking man from a hard working family. Before he had...

Jordan Technology Fadi Ghandour

Thought Leadership

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