Wamda

Regional

How to make a good digital media strategy for your business [Wamda TV]

In a region where internet penetration is rapidly growing (60 percent in 2017), having a good digital strategy for your business is...

Jad Yammine content strategies content

Global

Speaking is winning [Wamda TV]

The American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel”. When...

public speaking

U.A.E

Ola Doudin on the potential of Bitcoin in the region [WamdaTV]

Bitoasis is a service that allows users in the Middle East to easily buy and sell Bitcoin. Launched in Dubai in 2014, Bitoasis is now...

BitOasis Bitcoin

Lebanon

How can data science and analytics improve education? [Wamda TV]

The Arab region still lags behind when it comes to mining big data for decision making, especially in the education sector. While...

data science Women in Data Science AUBWIDS

Lebanon

Lebanese entrepreneurs, move out of the city

Hellish rush hour is nothing new to those who live or work in Beirut. However, road traffic fatalities, which reached 1,088 in 2015,...

tripoli entrepreneurs club Shouf Entrepreneurs Neopreneur

Regional

MENA social enterprises grow in spite of deep-rooted challenges and little support [Report]

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) in the Arab world stands on a paradox: It has every reason to thrive and yet every excuse to die. This is...

social enterprise Social Entrepreneurship Jordan

Global

You created a store within a marketplace. Now what? [Opinion]

A very common approach for brands and retailers that want to start selling online is to set up a ‘shop-in-shop’, or a branded...

ecommerce marketplace Souq.com

Global

The secret to startup success in Africa

This is an excerpt of an article crossposted from Harvard Business Review. A tale of two strategies Why do so many...

Ghana Nigeria M-Kopa

U.A.E

What I know about approaching corporations: Jean-Michel Gauthier

When Jean-Michel Gauthier talks about unemployment, he does not point to job matching technology as the only solution his company is trying...

What I Know internsME corporations

Bahrain

Bahrain’s shift from oil to silicon [Opinion]

Of the businesses registered in Bahrain, 80 percent are SMEs and they are basically what drive our economy. We have other large...

Hamed Fakhro Bahrain Advice

Global

Artificial Intelligence will make our kids better learners [WamdaTV]

Looking at traditional education, the system is focused on ‘teaching’ rather than ‘learning’. This is what Philipp...

Artificial intelligence MIT Media Lab Philip Schmidt

Regional

How to build a company that will last forever [Opinion]

Scale is important for startups to put them on the radar of strategic acquirers, which are a more likely route to an exit in MENA than...

talabat strategic acquirer Exit

Global

What I know about pitching: Bianca Praetorius

You’re on stage. It’s not your favorite place; as an engineer you’re more used to hiding in a lab or behind a computer...

What I Know Pitching how to pitch

Global

What I know about patient capital: Amjad Ahmad [Know Your VC]

To Amjad Ahmad, American investment firms Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital are the ideal comparisons for his own Precinct Partners in...

patient capital fundraising precinct partners

Regional

Tech drives MENA to a crossroad

Fourteen years ago a group of Arab scholars drew a sobering picture of the Middle East: that it would need 140 years to just double its per...

Knowledge Economy undp AHDR

Regional

Entrepreneurship could be worth $700B for MENA

Every month, someone opines that MENA has a “relatively nascent” startup ecosystem, while others spot the “next Silicon...

Wamda Research Lab WRL policies

Saudi Arabia

How will Saudi’s diversification affect startups?

Just a few days into 2016, Saudi Arabia deputy crown prince Muhammad bin Salman made waves when he said the kingdom was exploring a public...

Wamda2016 Saudi Arabia Aramco

Regional

Investing in MENA’s emerging market [WamdaTV]

Foreigners looking to establish businesses in MENA’s emerging market not only need to cope with local business regulations and...

will hutson LMTD uae

Regional

Entrepreneurs, learn your financials and investment terms [Know your VC]

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. It is the first part of a series on startups lifecycle. Before startups start seeking...

Boostrapping VC terms Contract

U.A.E

What I know about building a sharing economy business: Debbie Wosskow

Debbie Wosskow comes from a family of entrepreneurs, particularly female entrepreneurs. She launched her first business at 25 followed by...

What I Know WIK debbie wosskow

Global

7 things Guy Kawasaki wants you to know

Guy Kawasaki is an author and public speaker…. and tech evangelist. He worked at Macintosh, then left. Then worked at Apple, and...

guy kawasaki Steve Jobs

Regional

Where are entrepreneurs finding talent? [Wamda TV]

More than three in five entrepreneurs in MENA cited finding talent as a key barrier to building their team. Hiring and...

Wamda Research Lab talent Hiring platforms

Jordan

Communication key to soothing rocky VC-startup romance

Part of a maturing ecosystem are the growing pains that go along with it. As startups continue to pop up, so do VC funds, but like any...

Funding Investment VC

Kuwait

10 ways to beef up your business

All you need is a few colorful bean bags and a casual open space to bring a startup community together to talk about what they do - and...

Mix N' Mentor 2016 Nuwait National Fund for SME Development

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