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Social entrepreneurship in MENA: always the bridesmaid, never the bride [Opinion]

You go up to the stage to pitch a social enterprise with the hope that tomorrow is better than today. You hit all the right spots:...

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How we can create a virtuous innovation cycle [Opinion]

Innovation is a key element of all national transformation agendas in GCC countries, with no less than Vice President and Ruler of Dubai...

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Rebranding? 12 steps to doing the tech right [Opinion]

After closing a $3 million funding round in September our online home services marketplace Movesouq rebranded to Servicemarket. The...

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State and entrepreneurship: will a Trump presidency change all that? [Opinion]

Right after the election of Donald Trump, the soon to become the 45th President of the United States of America, many opinions were voiced...

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Between a rock and a hard place: the trend towards for-profit social enterprises [Opinion]

Reducing the focus of my work as a social entrepreneur to become a social intrapreneur wasn’t an easy decision. I started working...

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Kids aren’t born digital natives, they’re made [Opinion]

Last March, during a heated debate at the World Wide Web 2016 Conference in Montreal, a researcher yelled at an American colleague:...

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Fadi Ghandour's roadmap to boosting MENA’s startup ecosystem [Opinion]

This article was crossposted from Zenith magazine. Progressive policies can help unlock the economic and job-creating potential of...

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Get your house in order: what to expect from due diligence [Opinion]

Before an investor will give your startup money, they will dig into your books to find out whether there is anything they need to know...

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CRO: The art of converting visitors into loyal customers [Opinion]

Most of the entrepreneurs I work with have great ideas and immense enthusiasm, but they are frustrated by one challenge. How do I get...

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Global

What I know about cyber security and humans: Matt Suiche

The user is not the weakest link, says hacker and entrepreneur ‘msuiche’. If you’re not down with the hackers and...

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Startup Watch: How to get more dates on Tinder, why Egyptian investors must unite, and VR Facebook emojis

Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on how to get more dates on Tinder, VR spreading its Ocu-pus legs across...

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'VC association wanted, please call Egypt for more details' [Opinion]

There is no doubt the Egyptian startup ecosystem is young. If the startups are young, the investors are as well. As investors, we need...

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You need more than a website to save the world [Opinion]

Aspiring social entrepreneurs need to understand that the tech component of solving a social problem is only a very small part 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...

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Global

From droid farmers to gamer therapists: why we can’t prepare students today for the careers of 2030 [Opinion]

This article is a crossposted with Medium. I recently reread To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. There’s one...

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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

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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...

CE expo 2020 Opinion

Palestine

Paypal: stop ignoring Palestinians now [Opinion]

Paypal, despite its own corporate values of inclusion and equality, is discriminating against Palestinians. A few months ago Paypal CEO...

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Startup Watch: 5 years of Tim Cook’s Apple, and Gandalf won’t do your wedding

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, but not when you have to explain the difference between AR and VR, that’s easy....

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Lebanon

Asmahan Zein shares the highlights of her journey [Wamda TV]

Asmahan Zein founded and built data management company Infofort in Lebanon after working for 27 years at Aramex. She’s the...

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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...

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Lebanon

Smart money is good money [Opinion]

Recently I was involved in a debate: startups versus venture capital. One particular moment...

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Invention is not about smarts, but logic

If you have ever wondered how in the world our forefathers thought to invent the technologies we so much rely on today such as fridges,...

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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...

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