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User Growth 101: From 500 to 5 million

I sat down to talk with two mobile developers today. They were anxious to discuss the app they had been building over the past few months....

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After success in Levant Lebanese mobile banking services is ready to scale

From left to right: Roy Zakka, and Khalil Daoud, NECB's General Manager Going to the bank every month is a chore many of us prefer...

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Experiential Learning Summit in Egypt, Deadline January 3rd

The Global Business School Network (GBSN), in collaboration with the American University in Cairo School of Business and Tuck School of...

Egypt

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The Challenge Cup in Amman

The Challenge Cup, brought by Oasis500 and Washington DC based-incubator 1776, is a global competition to identify and celebrate the most...

amman Challenges

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MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition

The MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition, in partnership with Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives is now running in 3 tracks...

MITEF

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New Wamda Research Lab report sheds light on MENA investment landscape and future opportunities

76% of surveyed MENA startups surveyed have received funding below $500,000 (full report here) Entrepreneurs that have the ambition to ...

Wamda Research Lab WRL

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5 common scale-up mistakes

Startups the world over, and in the Middle East in particular, often aspire to scale and develop their business in new markets. However,...

AtlanticLIVE Scaling Failure

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Arab Women's Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP), Deadline January 5, 2015

The Arab Women’s Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP) is a Citi Foundation-funded initiative, implemented by AMIDEAST in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, ...

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Startup MENA announces 2015 workshop series to strengthen ties between GCC and Europe

Startup MENA has announced its most ambitious plan yet, as part of its ongoing effort to build ties between European and Arab startup...

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The Mentor Effect, Wamda Insights Vol. 1

Through Wamda Insights, a new quarterly publication from the Wamda Research Lab, we aim to share new knowledge and data on the Middle East...

Wamda Research Lab Funding Mentors

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The importance of scale-ups: it's what comes after starting up that matters

The past 15 years have seen a great deal of energy and capital infused into cultivating startups around the world. Policymakers...

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Souq.com dresses Black Friday in white for the MENA

“Our Friday is White,” says the ad campaign for the MENA region’s first Black Friday sales event. Souq.com, one of the region’s bigge...

Souq.com Sales day Black Friday

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The Tabadol Week 2014 by Cambridge University

The University of Cambridge in partnership with Arab Innovation Network is hosting its first Tabadol Week from December 7th till 11th 2014...

amman Education

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Fresh off Stars of Science Season 6, these young innovators are ready to shake up the industry

Stars of Science 6th season finalists during our chat on the morning of the finale. It’s a new beginning for the finalists and winners of S...

Qatar Foundation Stars of Science

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Finding Solutions: Roundtables at MENA ICT workshop 4 scenarios facing entrepreneurs

The Wamda team took over the Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) in Amman last week at the MENA ICT Forum 2014, as it hosted a session of...

Zain Jordan Workshops

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Investing in MENA’s entrepreneurs: What is really needed?

This article has been crossposted with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor. The Middle East and North Africa is in dire need...

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Sudan and Iraq poised to win Collaborative Spaces Challenge

There’s nothing like a healthy competition to get people clicking. Hivos’s Mideast Creatives program and Zoomaal know something about thi...

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Web Summit: worth the trip to Dublin for Arab startups?

Photo Credit: The Web Summit And it’s a wrap! The Web Summit, the biggest event dedicated to startups in Europe, Africa, and the M...

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New Diwanee site seeks to feed growing interest in MENA celebrity news

When Paris-based digital publishing company Webedia acquired a majority stake in Diwanee in March, the Dubai-based Arabic content...

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The Middle East has the highest unemployment rate in the world, what can be done?

David Silverman via Gerry Images. This article is a cross post with The Huffington Post. The biggest threat from and to the Middle East...

Huffington Post Employment

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Next crop of MENA teen entrepreneurs cite Apple, extracurricular activities as key to their ambition

Egypt's Aly Mohamed pictured at a European Union-sponsored contest for young scientists. The old guard had better beware: these...

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How to develop competitive strategy

The Wamda Research Lab’s new report on investment activity in the MENA region highlights several alarming data points. The finding that i...

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6 regional VCs agree: To support the ecosystem, focus on making it profitable

This is the second of a series of interviews with top investors from the MENA region, in an attempt to shed light on funding opportunities...

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Want to push the MENA forward? Work for an entrepreneur

This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Youth entrepreneurship is of particular importance in MENA. Officially, one...

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