Tech Entrepreneurs Prepare for a New Egypt Sometimes you attend an event expecting one thing, but end up gaining insight into something completely different. Or at least in something... Omar Aysha • 23 May, 2012 Conferences Ecosystem Startup Communities
Creating a Culture Shift in Cairo Fill a room with equal numbers of people from the arts, software developers, NGO volunteers, and business professionals. Now sprinkle some ... Omar Aysha • 13 May, 2012 Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation
4 Ways to Create a Culture of Observation at Your Startup Did you know that marketing directors at Google use physics to explain the fundamental theories of branding? That astronomers use software... Oubai Elkerdi • 14 May, 2012 Innovation
You Think Like An Entrepreneur If... [Pic of the Week] While entrepreneurship is the science of forming and growing a business, the mindset associated with it has come to signify much more, a... Wamda • 07 May, 2012 CoE Cards Pic of the Week
Student-Powered Startup Education in Egypt What do cupcakes, touch technology, and venture capitalists have in common? In truth not much, unless we’re about talking s... Omar Aysha • 01 May, 2012 Conferences
Every Problem is An Opportunity [Pic of the Week] This week as we open registration for upcoming event CoE E-Commerce, this piece of advice seems especially relevant. The issues that most ... Wamda • 01 May, 2012 CoE Cards Pic of the Week
Beware of Praise [Pic of the Week] Fadi Ghandour said it. Arif Naqvi said it. A previous entrepreneur turned VC and blogger told his story. And maybe Chuck D said it best:... Wamda • 24 April, 2012 CoE Cards Pic of the Week
Can Policy Makers Create an Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship? This piece is cross-posted and adapted slightly from The Economist, November 16, 2010. Zebras are beautiful. They are powerful. They... Daniel Isenberg • 18 April, 2012 Ecosystem
Book Review: Applying Lessons from The Lean Startup to the Arab World The Lean Startup is required reading for anybody serious about entrepreneurship. In the swift, engaging read, Author Eric Ries sets forth a... Nafez Dakkak • 16 April, 2012
The Danger of Entrepreneurial Passion This article was originally published on Harvard Business Review, January 6, 2010. Passion is up there with innovation in what people... Daniel Isenberg • 11 April, 2012
The 2-Minute Opportunity Checklist for Entrepreneurs Cross-posted from Havard Business Review, March 4th, 2010. Okay, so you scored 17+ on the Isenberg 2-Minute Test, socked away... Daniel Isenberg • 04 April, 2012 Innovation
Last Chance to Submit to eClub's Photo Competition eClub, an nonprofit launched in connection with the American University of Beirut (AUB) to raise awareness about entrepreneurship, has... Nina Curley • 09 April, 2012 Competitions
6 Tips for Effective Networking On the heels of Arabnet, some advice on networking:As an entrepreneur, you attend a lot of networking events and over the past two years I h... Esraa Haidar • 03 April, 2012
Entrepreneurs, Be Tough, Be Global -- Export Now Cross-posted (with a slight adaptation) from Forbes, June 9, 2011. Puerto Rico is one example of a small market- a four... Daniel Isenberg • 22 March, 2012
To Succeed in the Gulf, Offer the Best Price and Be Mindful of Relationships Jan De Nul Group is a company specialized in dredging and civil engineering works. Launched in 1938 in Belgium, Jan De Nul originally... Knowledge @Wharton • 29 March, 2012
A Chat with an Imaginary Small Business CEO in Saudi Arabia Being an entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia is relatively easy. According to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2010 data, Saudi Arabia ranks 1... Bushra Azhar • 25 March, 2012 Innovation Trends
10 Tips for Success in Entrepreneurship from Ken Morse of MIT At the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Competition Workshop session, Kenneth P. Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director of the MIT... Wamda • 18 March, 2012
Entrepreneurship Outperforms Innovation Innovative ideas can make a splash, but entrepreneurs are more likely to create value, change the world, and make profits. Pro or... Daniel Isenberg • 07 March, 2012 Innovation
Business Development Tips for Startups: Part 1 Business Development is vital to your startup. If sales is the backbone of business, business development is then the spine of sales. It... Roland Daher • 29 February, 2012
So What Are Entrepreneurs and What Do They Do? We came accross an interesting picture on Uncrunched today and wanted to share it. Let us know what you think about it and if you as an... Wamda • 13 February, 2012
25 Tweetable Startup Tips from Steve Jobs 1. Create a product with soul. Jobs proved that to create a product that customers would not just use, but love, you have to marry science... Nina Curley • 06 October, 2011
8 Survival Tips for First Time Fathers & Entrepreneurs 1. Don't panic. Focus. When I quit my job to start my entrepreneurial journey, I didn't know that we were already blessed to have our first... Roland Daher • 10 October, 2011
Failure- What is it Good For? Failure is perhaps the most important teacher for any entrepreneur. Although failure is often treated as a taboo in school and university,... Alaa Rady • 27 September, 2011
Three Traits that Set the Best Entrepreneurs Apart, from Saad Khan Saad Khan, venture capitalist and thought leader in the fields of technology, design and media, spoke recently at Startup Weekend... Omar Aysha • 28 September, 2011