Regional

Navigating the risks and opportunities during a pandemic

Loulwa Bakr and Khalid Suleimani are both senior partners at Chrome Advisory, a Saudi Arabia-based consultancy As the global...

Thought Leadership • 22 March, 2020

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Global

Ready, Set, Growth Hack

Nader Sabry is a strategist, innovator and entrepreneur in NASA space tech, government and health/wellness. He is also the author of...

Nader Sabry • 19 March, 2020

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Regional

COVID-19 and startups: Is now the time to panic?

Following the global recession of 2008, globalisation and development expert Ian Goldin, author of The Butterfly Defect, predicted that the...

Shaimaa El Nazer • 17 March, 2020

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Global

Coronavirus: Not just a China problem

This week Apple warned of a global iPhone shortage due to the coronavirus outbreak in China – where its smartphones are...

Shaimaa El Nazer • 20 February, 2020

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Global

Adrian Cockcroft of Amazon Web Services on cloud tech and how corporate culture is key

Last month, Wamda met with Adrian Cockcroft, VP of cloud architecture strategy at Amazon Web Services (AWS), to discuss the importance of...

Rana Freifer • 22 April, 2018

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Global

Startups, brace yourselves for these hurdles [Opinion]

It’s common knowledge that startups fail at the whopping rate of 90 percent. For this reason, whatever their differences, startups...

Pratik Dholakiya • 06 September, 2017

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Kuwait

4 Kuwaiti family businesses using innovation to stay ahead

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. As we enter the age of information, more businesses are now better able to understand and...

Hind Al-Ghannam • 03 September, 2017

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Kuwait

How do you price your product

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. The price of a product can either make it popular or undesired. When pricing, there are a...

Reine Farhat • 14 August, 2017

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Kuwait

How to manage and retain your best talent

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. The debate over the best practices to retain and motivate employees is a never-ending...

Reine Farhat • 31 July, 2017

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Regional

Where does MENA really do business? [Infographic]

Even as entrepreneurs look to the Gulf to expand their sales, they look to the Levant to expand their back office operations. Wamda...

Teeb Assaf • 26 April, 2017

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Lebanon

From Bitcoins to footwear, opportunity drives David El Achkar

If you do a quick Google search of David El Achkar’s name, you’re likely to find the following article headlines:...

Dana Ballout • 05 October, 2016

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Palestine

Summer startups: entrepreneurs nurture Gaza's next generation

With school summer vacations coming to an end, August witnessed a peak in the number of events targeting children in the Gaza...

Rafat Abushaban • 07 September, 2016

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Oasis500 Bootcamp Beirut

Deadline to apply is August 18th.  On August 25-29, 2013, Oasis500 will be hosting the Oasis500 Bootcamp in Beirut. The training bootcamp, ...

Wamda • 15 July, 2013

Training Oasis500

Cairo's Startup Cup put on hold; what's next for its semifinalists?

Where can you find a team of 20-year-old Space Studies graduates working on an organic waste processing plant to improve a...

Jonathan Kalan • 10 July, 2013

Egypt Competitions

BiD Women in Business Challenge Award Ceremony in Amsterdam

On September 12, the five finalists of the Women in Business Challenge flying from emerging markets will stand before a community of...

Wamda • 10 July, 2013

Competitions Women

Why Saudi Arabia could be the next big e-commerce hub in the Arab world

Saudi entrepreneurs have often cited the challenges to opening an e-commerce startup in the Kingdom. Many note a lack of public trust...

Ahmed Gabr • 03 July, 2013

Saudi Arabia Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce

Hiring for your Startup, Lean Startup Event - Dubai, UAE

One of the many challenges a startup faces is hiring the right human resources, especially those who can join locally. But today the...

Wamda • 20 June, 2013

Team Programme

Startup Weekend Saida

[Postponed: new date TBD.] Startup Weekend comes to Saida, Lebanon on June 28-30, 2013.  SW Saida will follow the basic Startup Weekend mo...

Wamda • 13 June, 2013

Startup Weekend

Angel network offers Dubai’s first speed funding event for new startups

Originally inspired by the famous BBC TV show Dragons’ Den, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas in front of famous British investors, g...

Abdullah Alshalabi • 26 May, 2013

Angel Investment

The Mini Entrepreneur becomes a WamdaCard member

Curious about how WamdaCard can help your startup? In this episode, the Mini Entrepreneur learns about WamdaCard's offers, applies for the...

Wamda • 21 May, 2013

WamdaCard

International StartUps Meeting - Tunis, Tunisia

The International Start-Ups Meeting (ISUM) is an international initiative by AIESEC Alumni to connect startup enthusiasts to allow them to ...

Wamda • 21 February, 2013

Conferences

BiD Network launches ICT Challenge in Palestine

The ICT market is Palestine is on the rise; in Gaza, some of the best emerging employment opportunities are in ICT, especially for...

Wamda • 14 May, 2013

ict Business Development Competitions

How to Build Your Startup: Fly or Die, from the 6th StartupQ8

Building on the success of our last 5 monthly events in Kuwait, the 6th StartupQ8 took place on March 25th with the topic: “how t...

Abdullah Alshalabi • 09 May, 2013

Startup Q8

The Young Entrepreneur Forum - Marrakech, Morocco

You can now submit your ideas of activities for the next Young Entrepreneur Forum. Submissions should fit into the general theme: "Youth e...

Wamda • 01 March, 2013

Agriculture