Wamda

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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