Wamda

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

Dubai-Based Custom Suit Startup Helps Men Look Sharp Around the Globe [Wamda TV]

Tarig El Sheikh and Matt Mueller have set out to solve a problem that men around the world suffer from: ill-fitting suits. "As a poorly...

Expansion E-commerce

A Chat with Joi Ito: Why Agile Startups are More Likely to Succeed [Wamda TV]

This is part one of a three part video interview with Joi Ito, an entrepreneur, investor, director of the MIT Media Lab, and previous ...

Advice Ecosystem Innovation

A Chat with the Startup Founder Who Secured Over $10 Million on Kickstarter [Wamda TV]

It is increasingly important for hardware entrepreneurs to either transform what people are already carrying into wireless devices or...

Conferences Crowdfunding Innovation

SILA Angel Investment Network Launch Event

On October 15th, Silatech is announcing the launch of SILA, an initiative aimed at transforming the startup ecosystem in Qatar by...

Angel Investment Mentorship

What the Samurai Can Teach the Startup

What can the Samurai teach us about successful business? Over a dozen enterprising people attended The District recently to find out,...

Education Gaming Programme

Simple Ideas, Test Them [Pic of the Week]

This week we've reflected on Startup Weekend Beirut and talked to the winners, looked at tech startups working to disrupt education in the...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Recorded Livestream of CoE E-Commerce

Watch the recorded Livestream on YouTube to see more of the key stats and presentations at CoE E-Commerce (full program here). Thanks to...

COE CoE E-Commerce

We Are in the Middle of a Revolution [Pic of the Week]

As the Egyptian elections conclude today, and strife in Syria exacerbates tensions in Lebanon recently, it's clear that the region is still...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Announcing the First Batch of Speakers at CoE E-Commerce

Here's a tease of what's to come at CoE E-Commerce. Our first batch of speakers include the following industry experts. Stay tuned for the...

E-commerce CoE E-Commerce COE

Should We Celebrate Failure? [Wamda TV]

Cross-posted from Babson Media YouTube channel, posted on April 12, 2012. In a video interview, Dan Isenberg discusses the difference ...

Failure

Cash Flow is Never More Important Than Your Mother: Happy Mother's Day from Wamda

Today is Mother's Day on Wamda. We just wanted to remind you that, while Ken Morse said that "cash flow is more important than your mother...

Intelligent Flying Robots, Designed for Social Good [Wamda TV]

Today we're inspired by this video of a set of intelligent flying robots, developed by Vijay Kumar. While the robots, which coordinate in a...

How Animation Helped Google Educate First-Time Users in the Arab World [Wamda TV]

Najeeb Jarrar, the MENA Product Marketing Manager, discusses at CoE Animate 11, how created its animated series, Ahlan Online, in April of...

CoE Animate

Promoting ICT in Education at Jordanian Startup CADER [Wamda TV]

Jordanian entrepreneur Dr. Amin Amin, founder of young startup CADER, Change Agent for Arab Development and Education Reform, discusses how...

How to Generate Revenue Streams for Animated Arabic Content [Wamda TV]

Mohammad Harib, the creator of popular Emirati cartoon Freej, discusses how he built his team to maximize quality while minimizing...

CoE Animate Animation Arabic Content

Full List - Final Results of the Best MENA Startups of 2011

Due to popular request, we are now posting the full final results of the Best MENA Startups of 2011 poll, by percentage. More than 20...

Thought Leadership

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