Wamda

Struggling to Find a Business Model for Your Idea? Read The Startup Owner's Manual

Raise your hand if you've heard or seen a startup idea recently in the Middle East that doesn't have a real market. Or whose game plan is...

Advice Ecosystem

6th MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition

The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab Region is hosting a launching event of the 6th MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan...

Competitions MIT

Ever Dreamt of a Private Jet Trip? Dubai's iFlyPrivate Capitalizes on Empty Seats

For all of those travelers who have fantasized about flying on a private jet, iFlyPrivate is now making private travel more...

Airlines

Mashroo3i Business Plan Competition Reveals Bahrain's Top Young Entrepreneurs

For those curious about up and coming startups in the Bahraini entrepreneurship community, new business plan competition Mashroo3i,...

Competitions

Build Your Business Plan – Workshops

Bedaya Center is organizing a series of workshops entitled: “Build Your Business Plan”, to help small businesses and entrepreneurs to con...

Workshops

Maghreb Startup Initiative Launches Competition for North African Entrepreneurs

North African entrepreneurs, get your ideas ready: The Maghreb Startup Initiative is now live. Founded as a partnership between the...

Accelerators Competitions

M&A's Overlooked Pitfall: The False Negative

Plenty of merger deals should never happen: Buyers are too often attracted to "false positives" in targets that are overvalued. Less...

Acquisitions

MIT Announces 14 Finalists in Arab Business Plan Competition

Of the 50 teams that the MIT Enterprise Forum accepted into the semifinal round of the Arab Business Plan Competition, the...

MIT MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Women in Business Challenge Competition 2011-2012

BID CHALLENGE Women in Business is organizing the 3rd edition of the business plan competition for women entrepreneurs in emerging markets....

Competitions

The MENA 100 Business Plan Competition: Promoting Innovative Entrepreneurship

Launched in 2009, the MENA 100 Business Plan Competition is now accepting applications for its third competition, with a deadline of...

Competitions

Can an Egyptian Virtual Call Center Outprice India?

As local small businesses in Egypt suffer, due to reduced consumer spending during the country’s economic crisis, one entrepreneur is p...

Building Quiet Optimism at the Launch of the 5th MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

As the 5th round of the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition launched this past Thursday on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, it set...

How to Win the MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

This Thursday, the MIT Enterprise Forum is launching the 5th round of its yearly Arab Business Plan Competition, at the Radisson Blu Hotel...

MIT MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Sitat Byoot: The Power of Simplifying a Model

In the wake of funding struggles, Saeed Omar of Jordanian handicraft business Sitat Byoot is transforming his challenges into a vehicle for...

How to Create an Effective Business Plan

When an entrepreneur has identified a potential business opportunity, the next step is developing a business plan for the new venture. What...

Could Free Be Your New Path to Profitability?

Entrepreneurs in the tech space may have to build a business model around giving their product away for nothing and monetizing the audience...

Watch the MIT Enterprise Forum Workshop Livestream

Watch the Livestream from the 5th Annual MIT Enterprise Forum Entrepreneurship Workshop: Writing a Business Plan and Winning the...

Competitions MIT

Freemium: A business model startups can’t ignore

The word “freemium” may be less than four years old, but the business model it describes – offering basic service access for free and then ...

8th Startup Q8: Multi-sided platforms

On Monday, May 27th, Startup Q8 (Kuwait) is hosting their 8th event at the Global Tower, Al-Shuhada Street, Kuwait City. At this month’s ev...

Startup Q8

Egyptian Startup Seeks to Streamline Travel Booking in the Middle East [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, we chatted with Hussein Al-Sakkaf, Founder and CEO of Go Ejaza, a travel planning platform f...

Egypt Travel

Startup Weekend Cairo

Startup Weekend comes to Cairo, Egypt on April 18-20, 2013. SW Cairo will follow the basic Startup Weekend model, anyone can pitch their id...

Startup Weekend Competitions Egypt

TNWebDays

For its first edition, TNWebDays will hold a series of workshops, talks and hackathons on entrepreneurship and security throughout the f...

Security Startup Weekend

GIST Tech-I Deadline Approaching for 2012 Competition

The GIST Tech-I Competition is open to innovators and entrepreneurs who want to take their venture to new markets. This is a chance to w...

Startup Communities

Cisco's Starting a Business Course

The Cisco Entrepreneur Institute's Starting a Business Course is specifically designed to empower individuals who want to start a small to...

Thought Leadership

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