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What advice did you receive at Mix N' Mentor Beirut? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV]

Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Beirut brought together entrepreneurs and mentors from across Lebanon to discuss and workshop the main challenges the...

Expert Advice Mix n Mentor Advice

How one Saudi woman entrepreneur found success through Instagram [Wamda TV]

When 26 year old Sarah Al Dabbagh graduated with a degree in early childhood education from Simmons College in Boston she returned to...

Event Planning instagram

Gaza Sky Geeks bootcamp prepares entrepreneurs to pitch to investors [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Last week, MercyCorps Gaza and Oasis500 partnered to organize their first week long bootcamp in Gaza, in collaboration with Gaza ...

Accelerators Investment Oasis500

How do you increase brand engagement on social media? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At Oventure’s annual Mashable Social Media Day Egypt in Alexandria last June, the day’s discussions covered a range of social media...

Social Networks Social Media

Would you outsource your startup's social media presence? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Last June, Oventure organized the annual Mashable Social Media Day Egypt in Alexandria, with discussions on social media including ...

Social Media

How WebTeb is overcoming challenges to starting up in Palestine [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, Mahmoud Kaiyal, founder of Palestinian medical Arabic platform WebTeb, di...

Healthcare Health Medical

Advice for women looking to advance in the workplace [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Genny Ghanimeh, the founder of Pi Slice, a micro-credit p...

World Economic Forum Women

Advice for managing a growing team as you scale [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Tarek Sultan, CEO and General Manager of Agility, a global ...

Logistics Expert Advice Team management

Can Microsoft help scale R&D in the Middle East? [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Charbel Fakhoury, VP of Sales, Marketing, and Services at M...

R&D Technology Ecosystem

How to succeed in Morocco or Silicon Valley: Advice from Akram Benmbarek of Social IQ

Moroccan entrepreneur Akram Benmbarek spent most of his career working working as an investment banker in Silicon Valley, focusing on the...

Expert Advice Advice

Why contacts are more important than wealth: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 2 [Wamda TV]

After writing a piece on tips for networking, drawn from Keith Ferrazzi's famous book Never Eat Alone, Wamda contributor Nafez Dakkak sat do...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Expert Advice

Why cultivating vulnerability helps business: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 3 [Wamda TV]

In the third of our five-part discussion, Keith Ferrazzi, the author of Never Eat Alone, explains why cultivating vulnerability is...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Advice

Build relationships before you do business: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 1 [Wamda TV]

This March, Wamda contributor Nafez Dakkak wrote a piece on tips for networking, drawn from Keith Ferrazzi's famous book Never Eat Alone,...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Networking

Expert Advice: 5 Tips for Building an E-Commerce Company from Andre Haddad [Wamda TV]

Over the past 13 years, Lebanese entrepreneur Andre Haddad has honed his expertise in e-commerce. Now based in the San Francisco Bay...

eBay Expert Advice Sharing Economy

Training Businesses in Social Media Marketing, SoshTeck in Oman [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Saba Al Busaidi of social media training company SoshTeck in Oman discusses how she re...

Social Networks Social Media

edUchange Initiative Conference

The edUchange Conference is taking place in Beirut on April 28, 2013, offering a space for exchanging ideas about reforming education in...

Conferences Education

Startup Weekend Cairo

Startup Weekend comes to Cairo, Egypt on April 18-20, 2013. SW Cairo will follow the basic Startup Weekend model, anyone can pitch their id...

Startup Weekend Competitions Egypt

Business Model Design and Lean-Startup Workshop

Designed to teach participants the practical principles of classic books the Business Model Generation and The Lean Startup, this workshop...

Workshops

Beirut Creative Cluster Launch Event

Berytech, with the support of the European Union, is hosting the official launch event for the Beirut Creative Cluster (BCC) on April 2,...

Coworking Spaces

TNWebDays

For its first edition, TNWebDays will hold a series of workshops, talks and hackathons on entrepreneurship and security throughout the f...

Security Startup Weekend

Matching Entrepreneurs with the Right Mentors: A Chat with Paris Norriss of Rise UAE [Wamda TV]

At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Paris Norriss, the founder of Rise UAE, discusses how his program connects experienced mentors with ...

Ecosystem Mentorship

Sister Entrepreneurs Open Trendy Café in Oman [Wamda TV]

Omani entrepreneur Amal Al-Khusaibi, Deputy Managing Director of The K’s Café, discusses how she and her sisters turned a small catering bu...

Conferences Ecosystem Food & Beverage

Cairo Service Jam

The Cairo Service Jam, part of the Global Service Jam movement, will take place from March 1-2, 2013. Participants will come together from d...

Competitions Design Developers

Thought Leadership

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