Wamda

Regional

In business, avoid falling in love

Entrepreneurs fall in love with their businesses, but this can make breaking up as much of a wrench as the end of a relationship. An...

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Regional

Can audiobooks inspire more Arabs to read? [Wamda TV]

Rawan Barakat, the founder of Raneen. (Image via Wamda) Studies have shown that Arab citizens hardly care about reading - dedicating...

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Syria

Syrian inventor on his journey of making a solar-powered washing machine [Q&A]

Twenty-two-year old Syrian inventor Yaman Abou Jeib has the entrepreneurship community buzzing over him, and for good reason too. Aside...

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Lebanon

Don't hide your ideas, Andrew Hyde of Techstars [Q&A]

Andrew Hyde, Startup Week director at Techstars, is a globe-trotter with a mission: bridging the gap between community, technology and...

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Lebanon

Making social pay, #MixNMentor Beirut

If you had a choice between having a $10 million business and being on the cover of Forbes magazine, or running a $50 million business and...

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Global

Branding outside the box [Wamda TV]

When design consultant Ashley Shaffer and her team were asked to help a long established US insurance company to appeal to a younger...

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U.A.E

Nice and slow: Ekar launches with the watchful blessing of UAE authorities

Earlier this year, UAE news outlets were abuzz with the launch of Udrive, a car rental app running on a pay-per-minute scheme. Clickbait...

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Kuwait

Should you offer internships at your startup?

This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. You have excellent college grades, solid cover letter, stellar resume, and dozens of...

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Regional

Digital Arabic content: A massive opportunity to capitalize on [Wamda TV]

In 2015, the population of the Arab world reached 375 million, of which 41.5 percent use the internet. Digital Arabic content stands at 3...

Arabic Content Mix n Mentor Mix n Mentor Beirut

Global

4 ways human data can help plan a city

If you can overcome the paranoia of your online data being collected and mined by companies like Google or Facebook, and instead focus on...

MIT Media Lab Dubai Data

Regional

Startup Watch: glass ceilings, Gods and Men, and death to the MVP

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Regional

Why you should participate in as many hackathons as you can

Most of the time, entrepreneurs spend their days in a professional work setting. The same one every day. They practice the same set of...

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Egypt

8 lessons for new founders [Opinion]

In August I officially completed my first year of being fully dedicated to my food startup Yumamia. It’s been a year of hard...

Opinion first time founder Yumamia

Regional

Making media pay: unlocking the potential in MENA digital [Opinion]

Arab youth is a demographic to be respected and reckoned with, as they represent one of the world’s fastest growing segments and are...

Kharabeesh Opinion tamatem

Global

Learning from failure? Jordan teens ready to launch again [Wamda TV]

It’s been a long time coming, but according to their latest statements the app Aidmaid is soon to launch. Aidmaid, which...

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Regional

In defense of brand design

If you’re a struggling entrepreneur trying to manage a tight budget, take a look at your spreadsheet. Where does design fall on your...

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Regional

Five do’s and don’ts of snagging a corporate partner [Opinion]

This article has been crossposted with Arabian Business. Around 94 percent of startups see value in partnering with corporations because...

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Global

Startup watch: a tyranny of experts, cash burns, and Algeria who?

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Kuwait

The 4 stages of your startup journey: Introduction

This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Every startup journey is unique in the time it is created, the circumstances in which it...

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Global

8 ways electric vehicles will change the way we live

Electric vehicles, or EVs, haven't really reached MENA yet. But when they do, the impact will be as destructive as everywhere else in...

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Egypt

What I know about Egypt's sluggish investment: Wael Amin

It might be normal for a country of more than 90 million to have a ton of entrepreneurs planning events around promoting even more ideas,...

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Lebanon

What I know about lying: Jonathan Choufany

Lies fascinate us. Children experiment with them, white lies are essential for smoothing the bumps of everyday life (your grandmother...

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Global

What I know about going to Silicon Valley: Muyesser Taqi Eddin

A Google search of this woman won’t yield much, and yet she has been intrinsic in building bridges between Silicon Valley and...

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Regional

Test your market with these 6 prototyping tools

This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Some entrepreneurs think that prototyping delays the launch of the real product and could...

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