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The Entrance of Amazon into the Turkish Market and What It Means for MENA Entrepreneurs

The Internet retail giant Amazon has acquired a minority stake in the Istanbul-based online flower and gift store Cicek Sepeti. This is...

How to Position Your Startup Against Competition

Every entrepreneur has competition. It's always important to admit it, but not to the point where you believe it's irrelevent. Jason C...

Access-To-Finance and Economic Development

by Ayman Ismail Almost a century ago, an Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter(1), popularized the idea that entrepreneurship is at the...

Regional

StartUp Maroc Championship

StartUp Maroc Championship is a disruptive event designed to bring together new and experienced entrepreneurs with investors, mentors, ...

championship startup maroc entrepreneurs

Would You Rather Pay for Music Streaming or Downloads? We Ask the Crowd [Wamda TV]

At the “Mobile Music” panel at Arabnet Beirut, panelists from Anghami, Yala, Deezer, and Vinelab discussed their competing strategies for ta...

Music Arabnet

Free Materials from the MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan is a world-class business school long renowned for thought leadership and the ability to successfully partner theory and...

Find out if you're a scale-up entrepreneur with this two-minute test

This article has been cross posted from Harvard Business Review. Cool ideas for new businesses are a dime a dozen. That — plus all t...

harvard business review scale scale up

MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition

For the first time since its launch in 2005, the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition, operated in partnership with Abdul Latif...

competition MIT

What are your startup challenges? We ask Lebanon's entrepreneurs [Wamda TV]

At Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Beirut on October 12, we chatted with attending entrepreneurs and mentors about the challenges they see in the Leb...

Challenges Mix n Mentor

What advice did you receive at Mix N' Mentor Beirut? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV]

Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Beirut brought together entrepreneurs and mentors from across Lebanon to discuss and workshop the main challenges the...

Expert Advice Mix n Mentor Advice

How one Saudi woman entrepreneur found success through Instagram [Wamda TV]

When 26 year old Sarah Al Dabbagh graduated with a degree in early childhood education from Simmons College in Boston she returned to...

Event Planning instagram

Advice for managing a growing team as you scale [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Tarek Sultan, CEO and General Manager of Agility, a global ...

Logistics Expert Advice Team management

Can Microsoft help scale R&D in the Middle East? [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Charbel Fakhoury, VP of Sales, Marketing, and Services at M...

R&D Technology Ecosystem

How student entrepreneurs are transforming Morocco's economy

The May, before Enactus Morocco hosted its 10th annual entrepreneurship competition for students, we caught up with Touria Benlafqih, the...

Students Competitions Social Entrepreneurship

What can the Bank of Palestine do to better support startups? [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting on the Middle East and North Africa in the Dead Sea, Jordan this May, we tried to...

Banks Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Ecosystem

How can governments better support entrepreneurs? [Wamda TV]

At the World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, Wamda chatted with Yasar Jarrar, a Young Global Leader working as a Partner at Bain ...

World Economic Forum Government Mentorship

Gazan entrepreneur builds online platform to unite Palestine's professionals [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] One new startup in Gaza is looking to unite all of Palestine’s professionals in one accessible online network. Entrepreneur I...

Incubator Networking Accelerators

How to succeed in Morocco or Silicon Valley: Advice from Akram Benmbarek of Social IQ

Moroccan entrepreneur Akram Benmbarek spent most of his career working working as an investment banker in Silicon Valley, focusing on the...

Expert Advice Advice

Will this online tourism guide flourish in Gaza? [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Launched by Palestinian entrepreneur Mohannad Al Nounou in Gaza in early 2012, online tourism and activity guide Fos7a offers an ...

Tourism

Why contacts are more important than wealth: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 2 [Wamda TV]

After writing a piece on tips for networking, drawn from Keith Ferrazzi's famous book Never Eat Alone, Wamda contributor Nafez Dakkak sat do...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Expert Advice

How to add value to your business contacts: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 4 [Wamda TV]

If you're trying to build a relationship with someone new, you shouldn't ask at first, how can they help you, but rather, how can you help...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Expert Advice

How to be generous with business contacts: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 5 [Wamda TV]

In the final segment of our 5-part interview with Keith Ferrazzi, the author of Never Eat Alone, Wamda contributor Nafez Dakkak asks, how...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Advice

Startup Weekend Tunis

Startup Weekend comes to Tunis, Tunisia on April 19-21, 2013. SW Tunis will follow the basic Startup Weekend model, anyone...

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...

eBay Expert Advice Sharing Economy

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