What do investors in the MENA want from startups?

This is the first of a series of interviews with top investors from the MENA region, in an attempt to shed light on funding opportunities...

Maya Rahal • 30 October, 2014

investement Q&A WRL

Best practices for ecommerce SEO (Part II)

Earlier this week we shared five tips on how to get the most out of the SEO for your ecommerce site. Here are another five current and...

Wissam Dandan • 28 October, 2014

SEO

Best practices for ecommerce SEO (Part I)

Whether you’re only just thinking of starting an online store or you’ve already launched into the fray, you’ll quickly find that there’s a w...

Wissam Dandan • 26 October, 2014

SEO

A university instructor's take on how to foster entrepreneurship in the classroom

The author with one of her classes at Lebanese International University. They say that entrepreneurship can’t be taught, however, my e...

Esraa Haidar • 14 October, 2014

Education

8 things successful entrepreneurs do to cope with stress

During our recent Mix N’ Mentor in Beirut, Wamda’s CEO Habib Haddad asked mentors and entrepreneurs how they relieve the...

Reine Farhat • 13 October, 2014

Tips

Rise Up Cairo kicks off with strong feelings about investment

AUC’s downtown campus is currently playing host to the Rise Up conference, a well-organized and attended celebration of entrepreneurship w...

Ahmed Moor • 13 October, 2014

Cario RiseUp

Could Google's Quality Score make or break your startup?

Yesterday I wrote about what a Quality Score was and how it was measured; today I’m going to tell you about how you can improve it and let y...

Wissam Dandan • 30 September, 2014

quality score Google

Egyptian law firm helping entrepreneurs find their legal footing

  The legal procedures necessary for establishing a startup are considered the first and most important steps entrepreneurs have to...

Eman Mostafa • 16 October, 2014

law Egypt Legal

15 funding and team building tips from Mix N' Mentor Beirut

The Lebanese tech scene has evolved a lot since Wamda organized its first Mix N’ Mentor here back in 2012. It’s now more structured and mat...

Aline Mayard • 02 October, 2014

lebanon Mix n Mentor

A quick, current, and crucial guide to Google’s Quality Score

Whether you’re brand new to pay-per-click marketing with AdWords, or you’ve been at it for ages, you’ve probably heard others harp on the im...

Wissam Dandan • 29 September, 2014

quality score Google

The Middle Eastern startup blind spot: an obsession with money

This article was co-authored by Melltoo founders Sharene Lee and Morad Irsane “How do you make money?” is a question everyone asks about Mel...

Sharene Lee • 29 September, 2014

monetizing Funding

Smart phones in healthcare: Lessons drawn from the experience of Kuwaiti AbiDoc

With technology infiltrating pretty much every aspect of life, the intertwining of disciplines is the norm, in particular, in the health...

Lynn C • 09 October, 2014

Healthcare Saudi Arabia Health & Beauty

4 ways to tackle Saudi ecommerce, from an Oasis500 mentor

Sometimes, you can talk to people for hours and not understand how the time passed so quickly. And then there are those times when a half...

Reine Farhat • 24 September, 2014

Saudi Arabia Social Media Marketing

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....

Anwar Aridi • 07 September, 2014

dolby ramzi haidamus world bank

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...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 03 September, 2014

livingsocial gonabit

A Forbes 30 under 30 shares some home truths about entrepreneurship

They call me a “social entrepreneur,” but I always prefer to call myself an “entrepreneur wannabe.” But regardless of the name, what we do s...

Kamel Al-Asmar • 01 September, 2014

8 essential skills for growing your team [Infographic]

Do you need to expand your team but don't know how to start? According to data extracted from LinkedIn, the best recruitment managers are a...

Maya Rahal • 28 August, 2014

CV Job Creation Job Recruitment

Shelvies builds on Instagram's momentum in Saudi to promote ecommerce

This article was originally posted on Firnas.org. During my meeting with Khalid Al-Issa, the young developer told us how he built...

Safar Ayad • 28 August, 2014

shelvies ksa saudi

5 easy ways to green your MENA startup

Time and money are precious when building a startup. Because going green is often seen as expensive on both fronts, and because it’s a r...

Aline Mayard • 19 August, 2014

eco friendly green Environment

Here's how Mounia Rkha walks the line between the entrepreneurship and VC worlds

Mounia Rkha is not your average investor or entrepreneur. The former analyst at Ventech, the famous French venture capital fund, has...

Aline Mayard • 11 August, 2014

Mydeal.ma France VC

Economics for Entrepreneurs 101: 4 things to know about an economy

Recently Wamda posted a list of five basic economic concepts that can help guide decision making and structural analyses of entrepreneurs....

Ahmed Moor • 07 August, 2014

debt deficit inflation

Lessons in branding from the UAE

This article has been cross posted with Wharton@Knowledge. Tucked away in the northernmost part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Ras...

Knowledge @Wharton • 06 August, 2014

INDUSTRY EMIRATES uae

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...

Daniel Isenberg • 05 August, 2014

money entrepreneurship Funding

6 tips from failed accelerators

It’s been four years since the first accelerator was launched in the Arab world. Now, almost every country in the MENA region has one, and ...

Aline Mayard • 04 August, 2014

Tahrir2 Meydan Seeqnce