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Bader Business Plan Competition in Egypt

The Bader Program recently launched a new business plan competition in Egypt, applications are due on April 15, 2013. The competition looks...

Business Development Ideas Egypt

Dubizzle Seeks to Change Culture of Ownership in Egypt

Global market research firm YouGov recently conducted a survey on the buying and selling behaviors of Egyptian internet users...

Social Change Egypt E-commerce

Alex Balloon Set to Take Flight in Egypt After Competition Win

Coming soon to a sky near you (if you’re in Egypt) is “Alex Balloon,” otherwise known as the Alexandria Balloon Project. To boost to...

Egypt Competitions

Algeria: The Power of Mentorship

The Mowgli Foundation is hosting “Algeria: The Power of Mentorship” in Algiers on March 14, 2013 to bring together entrepreneurs to learn th...

Mentorship

New Business Consultancy Helps Startups Get On Their Feet in Egypt

New entrepreneurs in Egypt come up against a variety of challenges: registering a company, finding legal help, renting an office,...

Startup Services Consulting

15 Tweetable Tips from Mix n' Mentor Cairo

At Mix n' Mentor Cairo, entrepreneurs and mentors discussed 3 major issues faced by Egyptian entrepreneurs. We've compiled a few of the key...

Mix n Mentor Advice Mentorship

Insights from Mix n' Mentor Cairo: What You Missed

This Saturday, we kicked off our 2013 roadshow by hosting Mix n’ Mentor Cairo, which brought around 300 of Egypt’s leading entrepreneurs a...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

Inside East Africa's Tech Hubs Part 2: Culture

Click here to see the original photos on Picasa Web. In Part Two of this three-part photo series “Inside East Africa’s Hubs”, we...

East Africa Technology Coworking Spaces

Wamda Launches EdTech Mapping Project - Register Here

Education in the Middle East and North Africa is in crisis. Employers lament low skilled job seekers, unemployment is at an all time high,...

Mapping EdTech Education

Keystone: Saudi Arabia’s First Idea Translation Lab

Within the barren hills of oil-rich Dhahran in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia, a unique structure is slowly reaching high into the...

Ecosystem Accelerators Innovation

Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Announces Roundtable Series, Starting in Cairo

This month, Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs (W4WE) is launching a roundtable series to bring women from all stages of the entrepreneurial...

Women W4Women

Show, Don't Tell: How Entrepreneurs Can Communicate More Powerfully

This piece was originally posted on LinkedIn on February 26,2013. “Show, Don’t Tell.” In my recent incantation as a temporary write...

Advice

Regional

10 Tips for Getting the Most out of Mix n’ Mentor

We're hitting Cairo next on February 21st with our first Mix N' Mentor of the year 2015! Apply here to secure your seat. Mix n’...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

Could a New Model for Scaling Handicraft Artisans Transform Egypt’s Economy?

Year-old initiative Anamel Masriya hopes to transform modest Egyptian artisans into independent entrepreneurs, in a bid to boost their ...

Art Ecosystem Egypt

Family Business Looks to the Next Generation: Tony Haddad of Technica in Lebanon [Wamda TV]

At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Tony Haddad, the Founder and General Manager of Technica in Lebanon, discusses how he initially ...

Expansion

Wamda's Mix n' Mentor Launches Fresh Format Across the Arab World: Register Now

Forget sitting in plenary halls listening to the same sound bites from the same people. Wamda’s Mix n’ Mentor roadshow is bringing a com...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

Make Friends, Not Contacts: 5 Tips for Networking

It’s usually difficult to talk about “networking” without seeming opportunistic. The irony of course is that everybody, at least those who a...

Advice Book Reviews

Amman Gets Its First Co-Working Space

After 25 years of his life in the corporate world, working for giants in Jordan like Nuqul Group, it’s fair to say that Nidal Eses has g...

Coworking Spaces

Lebanese Gaming Startup Debuts Flying Carpet Hero, Prince of Persia Style

Today, Lebanon's Gamabox has made their debut in game development with the launch of their first title, Ali Hood. Ali Hood, a cross between...

Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming

A Look at Entrepreneurship in Oman: A Chat with Sharifa Albarami [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Sharifa Albarami, founder of Al Jazeera Technical Solutions & Training and the ...

Coworking Spaces Ecosystem

Bedriye Hulya of Turkey Named Social Entrepreneur of the Year

Entrepreneurship in Turkey is being celebrated on the global stage once again, as the World Economic Forum’s Schwab F...

Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Accelerating the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in the Arab World [Workshop]

At Silatech's recent Arab Youth & Entrepreneurship conference, speakers worked to bring together the elements that constitute a...

Ecosystem Workshops

4 Tips for Pitching with Plan9, Pakistan's Newest Tech Incubator

Plan9 is a tech-focused incubator that has been generating a lot of buzz in Pakistan. Conducted with the support of the Punjab Information ...

Accelerators Competitions Investment

9 Workshops for You and Your Business

Startup ticklemybrain is hosting nine entrepreneurship and business workshops from March 4 until March 19 at AltCity. Each workshop will...

Workshops

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