How a startup goes from idea to IPO [Infographic] For those who may get a bit confused by all of the jargon and stages associated with startup investment, Funders and Founders presents the... Glen Dalakian II • 23 October, 2013 Funding Venture Capital Angel Investment
How to Attract Venture Capital Interest seminar in Dubai On November 2, 2013 TURN8 is organizing a seminar in Dubai entitled “Building a Successful Lean Start-up.” The event will be powered by i36... Wamda • 24 October, 2013 Funding Lean Methodology Venture Capital
iMENA invests $7 million in Rocket Internet's ‘Easy Taxi’; here's how it plans to compete in Saudi Arabia Jordan-based regional investment firm iMENA announced today that it has invested $7 million in Rocket Internet's Easy Taxi,... Nina Curley • 23 October, 2013 Scaling Rocket Internet Investment
10 of Reid Hoffman's most valuable tips from LinkedIn's Series B pitch deck As part of Greylock Partners’s mandate to “always help entrepreneurs,” Reid Hoffman has published LinkedIn’s slide deck from its Seri... Nina Curley • 16 October, 2013 Expert Advice Advice
Guy Kawasaki’s top 11 mistakes made by entrepreneurs [Video] As one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh computer in 1984, Guy Kawasaki has since started his own... Glen Dalakian II • 08 October, 2013 Venture Capital Expert Advice Tips
Egyptian event platform Eventtus goes premium after investment from Vodafone, Cairo Angels After meeting at Startup Weekend Cairo in 2011, the founders of event organizing platform Eventtus launched their startup in... Glen Dalakian II • 07 October, 2013 Funding Venture Capital Angel Investment
Healthcare portal WebTeb closes Series B round from Siraj Palestine Fund On top of reaching over 3.5 million unique visitors per month, Arabic medical content portal WebTeb just announced new investment from... Glen Dalakian II • 03 October, 2013 Healthcare Content Portals Health & Beauty
Borrowing $1 billion a day? A look at debt in Saudi Arabia A surprising headline recently caught our eye: Arabian Business suggested that Saudi consumers are borrowing almost US $1 billion per... Glen Dalakian II • 25 September, 2013 Statistics Loans Banks
iMENA invests $8m in HelloFood; why it is and isn't like Rocket Internet iMENA Holdings made headlines yesterday with the news that it invested US $8 million in HelloFood, Rocket’s online food ordering platform ... Nina Curley • 10 September, 2013 Scaling Rocket Internet Investment
Startup funding: How to fuel your car [Infographic] This past week, our Wamda Community member Osama Natto designed and posted his own infographic on his own profile, using the metaphor of a... Wamda • 09 September, 2013 Funding Scaling Advice
Meet the three teams that won a Silicon Valley investor pitch event in Palestine PALinnO, a new initiative in Palestine designed to connect local startups to Silicon Valley mentors, has announced the winners of its... Nina Curley • 04 September, 2013
How Namshi is doubling down on operations as it goes from startup to scaleup “I can't stress how much we're trying to break away from the bubble and hype around our funding rounds, and see ourselves as a startup t... Glen Dalakian II • 25 August, 2013 Logistics Dubai Shipping
Moroccan entrepreneurs vent about lack of early stage investment (what really happened to MNF) Can early stage startups still find funding in Morocco? Maroc Numeric Fund (MNF), the country's only major institutional early... Aline Mayard • 19 August, 2013 Government Investment MNF
Global Do you really need to write a business plan? [poll results] “‘He who fails to plan is planning to fail,’” said Omar Sati, the Managing Director at DASH... Reine Farhat • 15 August, 2013 Poll Results business plan Venture Capital
Edfa3ly secures Series A investment from Tamkeen Capital, plans regional expansion Living in Egypt is hard. Even having a high disposable income brings its own difficulties because you see a plethora of enticing products... Omar Aysha • 12 August, 2013 Series A Investment Logistics
How the founder of Hmizate raised $1.6 million in a plane There’s a saying that finding an investor is like finding a spouse; as a startup, you’re looking for a long term partner, that will bring n... Aline Mayard • 06 August, 2013 Daily Deals Hmall Venture Capital
Rocket Internet's EasyTaxi set to expand to the Middle East, Africa and Asia with new investment Rocket Internet can’t sit still, continuing to diversify their investments in different sectors across the Arab world. Their latest move? I... Aline Mayard • 24 July, 2013 Taxi Transportation Rocket Internet
4 lessons for investing in Africa from Kenya's Savannah Fund A startup funding gap between early stage/angel and VC investments is starting to be filled by one of Kenya’s leading seed capital f... Jonathan Kalan • 22 July, 2013 Venture Capital East Africa Tips
Turkish startups CloudArena, HemenKiralik and Evim.net set to expand after securing millions in investment Turkish startups CloudArena, HemenKiralik, and Evim.net recently secured millions in investment from Istanbul-based 212 Ltd. Ventures and... Glen Dalakian II • 10 July, 2013 Venture Capital Expansion Investment
How the founder of Dubai's propertyfinder.ae wrestled his company back from NewsCorp Last week, propertyfinder.ae solidified its position as a startup to watch, closing a round of series A funding led by BECO Capital... Nina Curley • 08 July, 2013 BECO Capital Venture Capital Real Estate
Regional How to make investment more attractive for VCs in emerging markets [Opinion] Cross-posted and adapted from the original version published on Techies.pk on June 19, 2013. If you ask prospective... Khurram Zafar • 07 July, 2013 Venture Capital Advice Technology
6 unsettled debates from Arabnet's first Dubai summit “How was the new Arabnet?” People have been asking since I returned from Dubai last week. Quickly: it was sleeker, with more industry hea... Nina Curley • 03 July, 2013 Debate Arabnet Conferences
Global Is it better to host a big launch or have a soft roll out for your product? [poll results] Among the many reasons why startups fail, perhaps the most important is launching a product that doesn’t really fit the... Reine Farhat • 04 July, 2013 Lean Methodology Facebook Investment
It's not about the money: why isn't there more startup investment in emerging markets? Cross-posted and adapted from the original version published on Techies.pk on March 20, 2013. There is no doubt that the... Khurram Zafar • 25 June, 2013 Venture Capital Angel Investment Investment