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Global

How Orange is helping entrepreneurs cooperate with telcos [Q&A]

Orange, the French multinational telecommunications company, has recently made strides in diversifying its business activities while...

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Saudi Arabia

BIBAN Forum 2017: Funding is available, seek mentorship

Wamda organized its three-day Mix N’ Mentor event in Saudi Arabia, during the BIBAN Forum 2017, which ran from September 17 till 20,...

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Saudi Arabia

The lifecycle of an app: From an idea to a successful business [slideshow]

Daily app downloads have reached 50 million globally, out of which 95 percent get deleted within a month, according to the Digital...

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U.A.E

Sharjah calls on entrepreneurs to participate in the Sheraa Accelerator program

The second edition of Sheraa's accelerator program is now accepting UAE and international entrepreneurs applications for its second...

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Tunisia

What I know about building an ecosystem from scratch: Wassel Berrayana

In 2000, Wassel Berrayana was an employee in HQ Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley’s companies, when he decided to leave his job...

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Regional

What I know about building ecosystems in emerging countries: Linda Rottenberg

It only took Linda Rottenberg a brief conversation with a taxi driver in Buenos Aires to launch Endeavor. Initially an engineer, this...

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Lebanon

Sixth edition of Mix N’ Mentor Beirut coming on September 8

There is a reason why Beirut is talked about so much in the startup world. While the city may not be as big as Cairo or Amman or as...

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Morocco

Dare Inc. a social incubator on the rise in Morocco

According to a study by the British Council and the Moroccan CISE (Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship), the...

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Lebanon

One lucky startup walks away with $50,000 from Speed@BDD’s fourth Demo Day

Speed@BDD, a Beirut-based tech startup accelerator, concluded yesterday its fourth acceleration program with a Demo Day. The accelerator is...

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Tunisia

B@labs, the first Tunisian incubator in downtown Tunis

With up to a million people daily passing along Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, it is a strategic location for the latest addition to the...

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Kuwait

Kuwait gets its own Community at #MixNMentor Nuwait

Faces old and new were at Kuwait City’s Dar Hamad venue on May 10, to attend the third Mix N’ Mentor Nuwait, hosted by The...

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Regional

How to make a good digital media strategy for your business [Wamda TV]

In a region where internet penetration is rapidly growing (60 percent in 2017), having a good digital strategy for your business is...

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Saudi Arabia

Gorfah and the seven business models

What do you do when you don’t know which business model suits you? This is what Gorfah faced, a Saudi startup working in an $8...

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Lebanon

Syrian entrepreneurs raise their voices at Jusoor

“War is always louder, but we want to raise the voices of youth and entrepreneurship”. This is how Ahmad Bayram, managing...

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Morocco

Bidaya Space in Morocco searches for seed stars

Casablanca greentech incubator Espace Bidaya has helped 19 startups launch into the world since it began, and 14 are on track to survive...

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Regional

How to start your journey as a mentor

This is an edited crosspost from New Shift. Mentors face many exciting challenges when advising early-stage entrepreneurs: studying a...

Mentor Advice

Egypt

Innoventures announces $1.6M fund

Innoventures CEO, Hesham Wahby, announced December 6 the launch of a new 30 million Egyptian pound (US $1.6 million) fund, Innoventures...

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi’s 9/10ths graduates first batch

Saudi’s 9/10ths Start Up Accelerator has just graduated its first batch of six startups. The startups include Polyinspect, Kaspercab,...

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Tunisia

Spark Tunisia student geekout bridges social divides

Two members of the winning team at Spark Tunisia came from a high school in Aïn Draham, one of the poorest areas in the country. A...

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Saudi Arabia

What to expect at Arabnet Riyadh 2016

Arabnet Riyadh has proven to be one of the biggest forums in Saudi Arabia: in 2015 it gathered more than a 1,000 participants from all over...

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Global

7 things Guy Kawasaki wants you to know

Guy Kawasaki is an author and public speaker…. and tech evangelist. He worked at Macintosh, then left. Then worked at Apple, and...

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U.A.E

Mix N’ Mentor is returning to Dubai, MENA’s startup capital

Wamda’s flagship event, Mix N’ Mentor, is finally returning to the uncontested MENA capital for anyone with a startup and the gusto to thr...

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Egypt

The lucky 13: Egypt's incubators

Cairo was - surprisingly - named one of the top 10 cities in the world to found a tech-startup last year, and that is likely partly...

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Syria

Artificial intelligence startup wins at Jusoor competition

Arabot, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to build online Arabic chatbots, won first place at Jusoor’s third annual...

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