U.A.E Nice and slow: Ekar launches with the watchful blessing of UAE authorities Earlier this year, UAE news outlets were abuzz with the launch of Udrive, a car rental app running on a pay-per-minute scheme. Clickbait... Vanessa Khalil • 21 September, 2016 uae ekar Transport
Kuwait Should you offer internships at your startup? This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. You have excellent college grades, solid cover letter, stellar resume, and dozens of... Reine Farhat • 21 September, 2016 internships MyU studenthub
Regional Digital Arabic content: A massive opportunity to capitalize on [Wamda TV] In 2015, the population of the Arab world reached 375 million, of which 41.5 percent use the internet. Digital Arabic content stands at 3... Abdulghani Kataya • 20 September, 2016 Arabic Content Mix n Mentor Mix n Mentor Beirut
Global 4 ways human data can help plan a city If you can overcome the paranoia of your online data being collected and mined by companies like Google or Facebook, and instead focus on... Lucy Knight • 20 September, 2016 MIT Media Lab Dubai Data
Regional Startup Watch: glass ceilings, Gods and Men, and death to the MVP The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Rachel Williamson • 15 September, 2016 Startup Watch MOBAltyics falafel games
Regional Why you should participate in as many hackathons as you can Most of the time, entrepreneurs spend their days in a professional work setting. The same one every day. They practice the same set of... Maya Rahal • 15 September, 2016 hackathon MIT Media Lab lessons
Egypt 8 lessons for new founders [Opinion] In August I officially completed my first year of being fully dedicated to my food startup Yumamia. It’s been a year of hard... Belal El Borno • 29 September, 2016 Opinion first time founder Yumamia
Regional Making media pay: unlocking the potential in MENA digital [Opinion] Arab youth is a demographic to be respected and reckoned with, as they represent one of the world’s fastest growing segments and are... Walid Faza - Rayan Dawud • 08 September, 2016 Kharabeesh Opinion tamatem
Global Learning from failure? Jordan teens ready to launch again [Wamda TV] It’s been a long time coming, but according to their latest statements the app Aidmaid is soon to launch. Aidmaid, which... Rami Deeb • 04 September, 2016 Jordan Saudi Arabia aidmaid
Regional In defense of brand design If you’re a struggling entrepreneur trying to manage a tight budget, take a look at your spreadsheet. Where does design fall on your... Dana Ballout • 01 September, 2016 Design Logos Branding
Regional Five do’s and don’ts of snagging a corporate partner [Opinion] This article has been crossposted with Arabian Business. Around 94 percent of startups see value in partnering with corporations because... Elias Boustani • 01 September, 2016 CE expo 2020 Opinion
Global Startup watch: a tyranny of experts, cash burns, and Algeria who? The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Rachel Williamson • 01 September, 2016 Startup Watch Voo Goods Mart
Kuwait The 4 stages of your startup journey: Introduction This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Every startup journey is unique in the time it is created, the circumstances in which it... Haider Al-Mosawi • 06 September, 2016 sirdab lab Nuwait
Global 8 ways electric vehicles will change the way we live Electric vehicles, or EVs, haven't really reached MENA yet. But when they do, the impact will be as destructive as everywhere else in... Rachel Williamson • 29 August, 2016 Electric vehicles EVs Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Egypt What I know about Egypt's sluggish investment: Wael Amin It might be normal for a country of more than 90 million to have a ton of entrepreneurs planning events around promoting even more ideas,... Eman Mostafa • 05 September, 2016 Sawari Ventures Wael Amin Egypt
Lebanon What I know about lying: Jonathan Choufany Lies fascinate us. Children experiment with them, white lies are essential for smoothing the bumps of everyday life (your grandmother... Rachel Williamson • 29 August, 2016 lebanon lie detection What I Know
Global What I know about going to Silicon Valley: Muyesser Taqi Eddin A Google search of this woman won’t yield much, and yet she has been intrinsic in building bridges between Silicon Valley and... Lucy Knight • 22 August, 2016 What I Know techwadi Networking
Regional Test your market with these 6 prototyping tools This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Some entrepreneurs think that prototyping delays the launch of the real product and could... Reine Farhat • 17 August, 2016 Protoytping Axure RP Nuwait
Regional What I know about investing in content: Turi Munthe A little over two years ago, the MENA region witnessed the first big acquisition of a media company. Diwanee, a Dubai-based digital... Maya Rahal • 15 August, 2016 digital content demotix WIK
Regional Be the CEO not the COO: finding space for vision-making [Opinion] A whopping 70.6 percent of entrepreneurs in MENA say it’s difficult to balance daily operational work and fire-fighting with strategy... Abdelrahman Wahba • 11 August, 2016 Opinion Iqraaly strategy
Regional Startup Watch: IKEA domination, young blood, and death by space travel The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Rachel Williamson • 11 August, 2016 Startup Watch
Morocco New Work Class trains Morocco's aspiring entrepreneurs Each ecosystem has its quirks and setbacks. One of Morocco’s was that it lacked a training program for entrepreneurs outside of... Aline Mayard • 14 August, 2016 New Work Lab NWL Training
Regional What's holding MENA's digital media market back? [Podcast] This podcast has been crossposted from Wamda Capital. Digital media is a growing market, but the amount of education still required for... Rachel Williamson • 08 August, 2016 Wamda Capital digital content Kharabeesh
Kuwait Kuwait's ecosystem - from an investor’s point of view This is an edited crosspost with two Nuwait articles. You can see the original versions here and here. Mussaad Al-Razouki is one busy... Ana Tadic • 08 August, 2016 Nuwait Mussaad Al-Razouki AbiDoc