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
Global How to professionalize a startup without stifling it This is an edited crosspost from Harvard Business Review. Insurgent companies are full of foundational stories and most of them involve... Harvard Business Review • 04 August, 2016 HBR Scaling growth
Regional How to land deals with the biggest fish in the market? [Wamda TV] Kharabeesh, an online media and entertainment network, has collaborated with Samsung to launch an application that has unlimited access to... Reine Farhat • 02 August, 2016 Collaborative Entrepreneurship Kharabeesh
Global Startup Watch: Beware the Trump, driverless cars, celebrity engagements and the constant inventor 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... Lucy Knight • 28 July, 2016 Startup Watch Payfort driverless cars
Regional Wisdom and warnings: Twitter chat with Christopher Schroeder and Marwan Kheireddine “[We] need to stop thinking of MENA as one country - some areas [are] hard, even tragic; some [are] rising,” tweeted... Dana Ballout • 27 July, 2016 Christopher Schroeder Marwan Kheireddine YPO
Regional Taking a sledgehammer to hierarchy Payfort is implementing a radical new company structure, one where CEO Omar Soudodi is no longer CEO, call center staff have voted to... Rachel Williamson • 25 July, 2016 holacracy Payfort HolacracyOne
Regional Blueprint of a VC fund This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared on Medium. Newly formed VC firms are startups that are vying for... Mohamad Charafeddine • 28 July, 2016 venture capital fund term sheets Airbnb
Global Startup Watch: Saudi cash, zombie startups, and your how-to-fire guide 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 • 21 July, 2016 Startup Watch careem KarmSolar
Global Three growth hacking tricks to keep online users [Wamda TV] Some entrepreneurs only consider putting effort into marketing just as they are launching their product. For growth hacking and marketing... Reine Farhat • 19 July, 2016 Growth hacking
Regional What I know about money and hardware: PK Gulati Hardware is in vogue. Where once you needed years, millions of dollars, and institutional support to launch a device or hardware... Rachel Williamson • 01 August, 2016 The Assembly hardware investing PK Gulati
Iraq Home or away? The best market may not be under your nose Starting in your home market is not necessarily the best way to success, a lesson Iraqi-founded Apps Lab learned the hard way. Apps Lab... Marwan A. Jabbar • 19 July, 2016 Apps Lab Ali Al-Hilli Hajwilha ya Saudi
Regional Startup Watch: Pokémon Go, VCs are ponzi schemes, and Cairo's legacy of entrepreneurship 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 • 14 July, 2016 Startup Watch daraty Steve Blank
Regional What I know about making people pay: Hadi Raad Fintech is the hot sector of 2016: banks are jumping into it, the Nasdaq is testing ideas, Abu Dhabi is setting up a fintech... Rachel Williamson • 18 July, 2016 Collaborative Entrepreneurship Visa Bridge
Regional The aviation industry, a new frontier for MENA startups [Q&A] In the world of aviation, the Middle East is one of the fastest growing regions in passenger traffic. According to IATA, the rate will... Tala El Issa • 24 July, 2016 aviation Travel Abrar Ahmad
Global How to build smart cities After growing accustomed to smart phones, cars, TVs and even smart homes, there's a new wave of fascination with smart cities. Indeed,... Pamela Kesrouani • 31 July, 2016 MIT Media Lab community jameel Smartcities
Regional What I know about mentoring: Kathleen Bury Despite having alumni spread across 14 countries the UK-based foundation Mowgli is still having to work very hard to get people to... Lucy Knight • 04 July, 2016 Mowgli relationships
Jordan For tech’s sake, get out of our way [Opinion] Last October we found out the royal court wanted some major changes to reawaken Jordan’s technology sector. This was no surprise... Laith Zraikat • 30 June, 2016 regulation Opinion Policy
Regional Share the love with a stock option pool [Opinion] Building a startup is a team effort, so it’s only fair that the team you share your entrepreneurial journey with also shares in some... Tamer Azer • 23 June, 2016 SOP Stock options A15
Regional When MENA investors don’t bank on women For years, Lebanese entrepreneur Rayan Zahab would get called in for job interviews, only to hear hiring managers say the same thing: they... Brooke Anderson • 27 June, 2016 Golden Seeds Snapay Women Investing in Women Digital
Regional How can startups build successful collaborations with corporations? This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. Collaborative entrepreneurship initiatives are trending and an... Jana Kassem • 21 June, 2016 Coentrepreneurship Expo 2020 Dubai CE
Regional What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in... Archana Menon • 20 June, 2016 Adasi pal robotics robotics
Global Do startups really create lots of good jobs? This article is a crosspost with Harvard Business Review. Eskimos have 50 words for snow. Humans only use 10 percent of... Daniel Isenberg • 13 June, 2016 Employment jobs Policy
Global How to do a Google design sprint: 10 things to know Google Ventures' design sprint tries to take teams from problem to solution in five days. (Image via Fastcodesign) Do you want to... Rachel Williamson • 13 June, 2016 agile Daniel Burka Design Sprint
Turkey The importance of workshops for UX design On the fourth floor of an Istanbul hotel young men and women are huddled over work tables, overlooking large poster boards, markers,... Lorena Rios • 08 June, 2016 Userspots design workshops User Experience