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How to finance the scale-up of your company

This article has been crossposted with The Harvard Business Review Online. Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “Beware your d...

Terra Cycle Isenberg scale up

Regional

Arabic Q&A site Jawabkom turns down 4 VCs

It took Twitter 24 months to reach one million users. Tumblr published its one-millionth blog after 27 months. Facebook’s millionth user s...

jawabkom

Jordan

2 Jordanian startups nominated to join Endeavor's network

Two Jordanian companies were nominated on Saturday to join Endeavor’s International Selection Panel, which will determine their...

luminus monojo Endeavor Jordan

U.A.E

'Never behave like an employee': Rasha Shehada's key to business success

On the factory floor. (Image via Diamond Line) At not yet 29, Rasha Shehada is already the managing director of an international trading...

Oil uae Women

Regional

LMTD's Will Hutson talks to Wamda about scaling service-based businesses [Wamda TV]

At our final Mix N’ Mentor of the year in Dubai earlier this month we took some time to talk to the mentors about their particular...

will hutson LMTD mix n mentor dubai

U.A.E

Personal finance app Wally launches on Android, aimed squarely at UAE

A year after its initial launch at Arabnet Beirut, personal finance application Wally is now rolling out Wally+, a...

wally finance Mobile

Regional

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...

strategy

Egypt

Egypt's ecommerce potential drives startups to push past challenges

Startups Yaoota and Kickin both launched in June with a goal of exploiting the massive potential of Egyptian ecommerce, but both...

yaoota kickin Egypt

U.A.E

Astrolabs launches pilot course for its Academy

The Dubai-based entrepreneurship platform Astrolabs is set to launch one of its latest components, the Astrolabs Academy, which will...

academy uae Dubai

Regional

Dubai's listings site Melltoo on the hunt for investors

The world of classified ads has moved a long way from one having to trawl through the back sections of local newspapers looking for...

listings meltoo uae

U.A.E

Could AbsoluteGeeks.com be the region’s next big tech site?

What do you get if you combine three Dubai-based technology lovers, a firm friendship, and the omnipresent World Wide Web? As it turns...

absolutegeeks.com

Jordan

Jordan's Beladcom sold a virtual stable for $2,200. What does this mean for Arab gaming?

How much would you pay for a virtual stable on a distant planet in a virtual universe? Whatever the number in your head, it’s likely less t...

planet toulan beladcom Gaming

Audio news for the blind with new Saudi app

Despite finding it hard to keep up with rapid developments in the world of technology, Hamza Abbasi, 21, has found success with the launch...

saudi Saudi Arabia

How 5 teenagers built one of Algeria's biggest websites

The story of Algeria’s eighth most visited website started eight years ago when police showed up to shut down a suburban street market. F...

Ouedkniss algeria classified

AstroLabs+Google announce plans for Dubai coworking space

At San Francisco’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week, the entrepreneurship platform AstroLabs announced their collaboration ...

tech communities MENA Dubai

Telr and Innovate Payments merge to boost e-commerce in global emerging markets

Telr, the payment gateway for emerging markets based between Dubai and Singapore, has announced that it will merge with Innovate Payments,...

innovate payments Telr Payment Gateways

Diaspora key to making Lebanon more business friendly, says Nokia's Ramzi Haidamus

In the early 1980s, at the age of 17, Ramzi Haidamus migrated from his war-ravaged home of Lebanon, leaving his family behind....

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Starting up, getting acquired, and shutting down: GoNabit co-founder's advice on the entrepreneurial journey

In a startup ecosystem as young as the Arab region’s, there are only a few founders that have completed the full entrepreneurship cycle, f...

livingsocial gonabit

WebTeb goes mobile with Arabic language app

Leading Arabic health and lifestyle portal Webteb has announced the launch of its mobile WebTeb App, the first of its kind in...

webteb Health

Next 10 years is key for MENA's long-term sustainability, says Badr Jafar

Badr Jafar speaking at UN Headquarters in New York. Working in the entrepreneurship sector you hear optimism all the time – especially in t...

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Lebanon

PinPay leads mobile payments trend in Lebanon

Mobile phones in emerging markets are still widely used for texting, making phone calls, taking pictures, reading news, and using...

m-pesa pinpay Beirut Digital District

Aramex launches logistics support network for regional entrepreneurs

Aramex and Infofort are launching a new program that focuses on helping startups and SMEs across their network. Aramex and Infofort ...

aramex Support Organizations

Jordan

Tamatem Games' secret to 2 million downloads in 2 months

Amman-based games publisher Tamatem announced last week that they had hit 4 million downloads. When Wamda spoke to them this week that...

tamatem Jordan Gaming

Entrepreneurship isn't free - here's why

This article has been cross-posted with Quartz. There is good news and bad news about entrepreneurship. The good news is that there is...

money entrepreneurship Funding

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