Wamda

Regional

What I know about investing in content: Turi Munthe

A little over two years ago, the MENA region witnessed the first big acquisition of a media company. Diwanee, a Dubai-based digital...

digital content demotix WIK

Regional

Be the CEO not the COO: finding space for vision-making [Opinion]

A whopping 70.6 percent of entrepreneurs in MENA say it’s difficult to balance daily operational work and fire-fighting with strategy...

Opinion Iqraaly strategy

Regional

Startup Watch: IKEA domination, young blood, and death by space travel

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...

Startup Watch

Morocco

New Work Class trains Morocco's aspiring entrepreneurs

Each ecosystem has its quirks and setbacks. One of Morocco’s was that it lacked a training program for entrepreneurs outside of...

New Work Lab NWL Training

Regional

What's holding MENA's digital media market back? [Podcast]

This podcast has been crossposted from Wamda Capital. Digital media is a growing market, but the amount of education still required for...

Wamda Capital digital content Kharabeesh

Kuwait

Kuwait's ecosystem - from an investor’s point of view

This is an edited crosspost with two Nuwait articles. You can see the original versions here and here. Mussaad Al-Razouki is one busy...

Nuwait Mussaad Al-Razouki AbiDoc

Global

How to professionalize a startup without stifling it

This is an edited crosspost from Harvard Business Review. Insurgent companies are full of foundational stories and most of them involve...

HBR Scaling growth

Regional

How to land deals with the biggest fish in the market? [Wamda TV]

Kharabeesh, an online media and entertainment network, has collaborated with Samsung to launch an application that has unlimited access to...

Collaborative Entrepreneurship Kharabeesh

Global

Startup Watch: Beware the Trump, driverless cars, celebrity engagements and the constant inventor

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...

Startup Watch Payfort driverless cars

Regional

Wisdom and warnings: Twitter chat with Christopher Schroeder and Marwan Kheireddine

“[We] need to stop thinking of MENA as one country - some areas [are] hard, even tragic; some [are] rising,” tweeted...

Christopher Schroeder Marwan Kheireddine YPO

Regional

Taking a sledgehammer to hierarchy

Payfort is implementing a radical new company structure, one where CEO Omar Soudodi is no longer CEO, call center staff have voted to...

holacracy Payfort HolacracyOne

Regional

Blueprint of a VC fund

This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared on Medium. Newly formed VC firms are startups that are vying for...

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Global

Startup Watch: Saudi cash, zombie startups, and your how-to-fire guide

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...

Startup Watch careem KarmSolar

Global

Three growth hacking tricks to keep online users [Wamda TV]

Some entrepreneurs only consider putting effort into marketing just as they are launching their product. For growth hacking and marketing...

Growth hacking

Regional

What I know about money and hardware: PK Gulati

Hardware is in vogue. Where once you needed years, millions of dollars, and institutional support to launch a device or hardware...

The Assembly hardware investing PK Gulati

Iraq

Home or away? The best market may not be under your nose

Starting in your home market is not necessarily the best way to success, a lesson Iraqi-founded Apps Lab learned the hard way. Apps Lab...

Apps Lab Ali Al-Hilli Hajwilha ya Saudi

Regional

Startup Watch: Pokémon Go, VCs are ponzi schemes, and Cairo's legacy of entrepreneurship

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...

Startup Watch daraty Steve Blank

Regional

What I know about making people pay: Hadi Raad

Fintech is the hot sector of 2016: banks are jumping into it, the Nasdaq is testing ideas, Abu Dhabi is setting up a fintech...

Collaborative Entrepreneurship Visa Bridge

Regional

The aviation industry, a new frontier for MENA startups [Q&A]

In the world of aviation, the Middle East is one of the fastest growing regions in passenger traffic. According to IATA, the rate will...

aviation Travel Abrar Ahmad

Global

How to build smart cities

After growing accustomed to smart phones, cars, TVs and even smart homes, there's a new wave of fascination with smart cities. Indeed,...

MIT Media Lab community jameel Smartcities

Regional

What I know about mentoring: Kathleen Bury

Despite having alumni spread across 14 countries the UK-based foundation Mowgli is still having to work very hard to get people to...

Mowgli relationships

Jordan

For tech’s sake, get out of our way [Opinion]

Last October we found out the royal court wanted some major changes to reawaken Jordan’s technology sector. This was no surprise...

regulation Opinion Policy

Regional

Share the love with a stock option pool [Opinion]

Building a startup is a team effort, so it’s only fair that the team you share your entrepreneurial journey with also shares in some...

SOP Stock options A15

Regional

When MENA investors don’t bank on women

For years, Lebanese entrepreneur Rayan Zahab would get called in for job interviews, only to hear hiring managers say the same thing: they...

Golden Seeds Snapay Women Investing in Women Digital

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