Startup Weekend Tunis Startup Weekend comes to Tunis, Tunisia on April 19-21, 2013. SW Tunis will follow the basic Startup Weekend model, anyone... Wamda • 11 April, 2013 Startup Weekend
Expert Advice: 5 Tips for Building an E-Commerce Company from Andre Haddad [Wamda TV] Over the past 13 years, Lebanese entrepreneur Andre Haddad has honed his expertise in e-commerce. Now based in the San Francisco Bay... Nina Curley • 23 April, 2013 eBay Expert Advice Sharing Economy
A Tour of Wixel Studios in Lebanon: Launching Survival Race [Wamda TV] Note: Wixel Studios has since changed the game’s name from Abou Ahmad the Arabian (AAA) to Survival Race. Today, Wixel Studios in Lebanon l... Glen Dalakian II • 08 April, 2013 Mobile Gaming Gaming
Business Model Design and Lean-Startup Workshop Designed to teach participants the practical principles of classic books the Business Model Generation and The Lean Startup, this workshop... Wamda • 05 March, 2013 Workshops
Entrepreneur of the Week: Serkan Sevim of MediaNova in Turkey [Wamda TV] This week, we chatted with Serkan Sevim, the founder of Medianova, one of Turkey's leading digital services companies. Before founding the... Nina Curley • 05 March, 2013
The Business Factory Inaugural Event The inaugural Business Factory event is being organized by global women entrepreneurs community Heels & Deals and will take place on ... Wamda • 06 March, 2013 Women
From Bankruptcy to Topping the Arabia500: German Imaging Technologies [Wamda TV] In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Sassan Khatib-Shahidi, co-founder and CEO of Dubai-based printer cartridge ... Wamda • 25 February, 2013 Failure
TNWebDays For its first edition, TNWebDays will hold a series of workshops, talks and hackathons on entrepreneurship and security throughout the f... Wamda • 26 February, 2013 Security Startup Weekend
Matching Entrepreneurs with the Right Mentors: A Chat with Paris Norriss of Rise UAE [Wamda TV] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Paris Norriss, the founder of Rise UAE, discusses how his program connects experienced mentors with ... Wamda • 04 March, 2013 Ecosystem Mentorship
MedESS 2013 Conference This year, spring will be about involvement in solidarity! That’s at least what MedESS 2013 is proposing. During 3 days, participants will b... Wamda • 21 February, 2013 Conferences Social Change Social Entrepreneurship
Dubai-Based Custom Suit Startup Helps Men Look Sharp Around the Globe [Wamda TV] Tarig El Sheikh and Matt Mueller have set out to solve a problem that men around the world suffer from: ill-fitting suits. "As a poorly... Wamda • 11 February, 2013 Expansion E-commerce
Entrepreneur of the Week: Alemsah Ozturk of 41?-29! This week, we chatted with Alemşah (pronouned Alem-shah) Öztürk of 41-29, one of the biggest digital agencies in Turkey. Since he started fo... Nina Curley • 22 January, 2013 Endeavor
Going Global in an Emerging Market: Tips from Alexander Galitsky of Almaz Capital [Wamda TV] Alexander Galitsky, managing partner and co-founder of leading Russian venture capital firm Almaz Capital, was one of the key speakers at... Gulay Ozkan • 13 January, 2013 Advice Ecosystem Innovation
Entrepreneur of the Week: Niall Sallam of Elevision [Wamda TV] This week’s entrepreneur of the week is Niall Sallam, founder of Elevision, an elevator content broadcasting company in Dubai. Sallam d... Glen Dalakian II • 26 December, 2012 Advertising Entrepreneur of the Week
How Turkish Jewelry Company Hazinem Plans to Enter the Middle East [Wamda TV] During the Webrazzi Summit, we chatted with Sevgi Soysal from Hazinem, a Turkish jewelry e-commerce company. Soysal told us about the... Wamda • 12 December, 2012 E-commerce Marketing Scaling
CloudArena plans to Disrupt the Hotel Industry in Turkey and the MENA [Wamda TV] During the Webrazzi summit, Arden Agopyan, Ali Beklen and Tolga Yalcinkaya from CloudArena shared with us their plans to disrupt the hotel... Wamda • 15 December, 2012 Data Digital Marketing Expansion
A Chat with Kaveh Gharib of Twitter: Revolutions, Mobile, and Monetization [Wamda TV] At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Kaveh Gharib, the localization project manager at Twitter specializing in the Middle East and ... Nina Curley • 14 November, 2012 Abu Dhabi Media Summit Mobile Social Media
How Telecom Company Orange is Creating a Culture of Intrapreneurship David Nahmani, Business Development Director at Orange, discusses how the Jordanian mobile operator is creating a culture of... Nina Curley • 15 November, 2012 Abu Dhabi Media Summit Data Digital Media
How to Monetize Digital Content in Emerging Markets: eMarketer’s Geoff Ramsey [Wamda TV] Geoff Ramsey, founder of eMarketer, discusses trends in access and monetiztion of digital content in emerging markets at the 2012 Abu Dhabi... Wamda • 01 November, 2012 Digital Advertising Digital Marketing Digital Media
Enabling E-Commerce: A Chat With Iyad Kamal of Aramex [Wamda TV] At Arabnet 2012, Iyad Kamal, COO of Aramex International, explains how Aramex is enabling e-commerce throughout the Arab World and... Wamda • 24 October, 2012 Arabnet Conferences Data
Does “Class” Matter in Entrepreneurial Success? A Call to Eric Ries In a recent article on racism and meritocracy, Eric Ries calls for Silicon Valley investors to pay more attention to diversity... Gulay Ozkan • 20 September, 2012 Trends
Digital Spring: MENA Governments Must Speak the Language of Social Media [REPORT] This report, published by Strategy&, reveals the ways in which social media is driving a digital revolution in the Middle East and... Booz and Company • 05 September, 2012 Government Social Media
Cashing In on Business: The Enterprise Opportunity for MENA Telecom Operators [REPORT] This report, published by Strategy&, highlights the growing opportunity for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) telecom operators to... Booz and Company • 19 September, 2012 Booz & Company
The Critical Elements for Creating a Healthy Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Steven Koltai of GEP [Wamda TV] At the recent Global Entrepreneurship Program in Turkey, Steven Koltai, Senior Advisor in Entrepreneurship to the U.S. Department of State,... Gulay Ozkan • 01 July, 2012 Ecosystem