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OPIC and Abraaj Capital Commit $150M to Boost SMEs in MENA

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt now have even more opportunities to for growth, as Sunday the Overseas Private...

Government Investment

Turkish Startup Hub Turns to MENA: Arda Kutsal of Webrazzi [Wamda TV]

Arda Kutsal, founder of Webrazzi, discusses the Turkish startup space in comparison to that in the Arab world. Started in 2006, Webrazzi...

Startup Communities

Building Government-Startup Alliances [Pic of the Week]

Entrepreneurs and governments are often at odds, leery of working with each other and afraid to reach out to build an uncommon alliance....

Government Startup Communities Pic of the Week

Are You Ready for the Digital Revolution? [Infographic]

Did you know that 37% of customers are influenced by word-of-mouth, and 10-25% use social media to help them make purchasing decisions? Or...

Digital Marketing

Provide Structure and Freedom for Innovation [Pic of the Week]

This week, activists participated in a blackout to protest ICT censorship in Jordan, a move aimed to prevent two amendments from...

Government Pic of the Week

3 Lessons from an Athlete to Entrepreneurs: How to Work Smarter, Not Harder

The similarities between sport and business are well known. In both cases, doing things faster, differently or more efficiently can result...

Negotiating for Results Workshop

In town for Wamda’s CoE? Make your trip even more productive by attending one of Tandem’s workshops! Want to up your game in high-stakes neg...

Book Review: Applying Lessons from The Lean Startup to the Arab World

The Lean Startup is required reading for anybody serious about entrepreneurship. In the swift, engaging read, Author Eric Ries sets forth a...

Arabic e-Learning Portal Nibras.com Launches, Offering Online Business Education

E-Learning portal Nibras.com launched in beta today, bringing online education to the Arab World with a series of short, accessible...

Education

The Entrance of Amazon into the Turkish Market and What It Means for MENA Entrepreneurs

The Internet retail giant Amazon has acquired a minority stake in the Istanbul-based online flower and gift store Cicek Sepeti. This is...

How to Position Your Startup Against Competition

Every entrepreneur has competition. It's always important to admit it, but not to the point where you believe it's irrelevent. Jason C...

Access-To-Finance and Economic Development

by Ayman Ismail Almost a century ago, an Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter(1), popularized the idea that entrepreneurship is at the...

Regional

StartUp Maroc Championship

StartUp Maroc Championship is a disruptive event designed to bring together new and experienced entrepreneurs with investors, mentors, ...

championship startup maroc entrepreneurs

Would You Rather Pay for Music Streaming or Downloads? We Ask the Crowd [Wamda TV]

At the “Mobile Music” panel at Arabnet Beirut, panelists from Anghami, Yala, Deezer, and Vinelab discussed their competing strategies for ta...

Music Arabnet

Free Materials from the MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan is a world-class business school long renowned for thought leadership and the ability to successfully partner theory and...

Find out if you're a scale-up entrepreneur with this two-minute test

This article has been cross posted from Harvard Business Review. Cool ideas for new businesses are a dime a dozen. That — plus all t...

harvard business review scale scale up

MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition

For the first time since its launch in 2005, the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition, operated in partnership with Abdul Latif...

competition MIT

What are your startup challenges? We ask Lebanon's entrepreneurs [Wamda TV]

At Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Beirut on October 12, we chatted with attending entrepreneurs and mentors about the challenges they see in the Leb...

Challenges Mix n Mentor

What advice did you receive at Mix N' Mentor Beirut? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV]

Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Beirut brought together entrepreneurs and mentors from across Lebanon to discuss and workshop the main challenges the...

Expert Advice Mix n Mentor Advice

How one Saudi woman entrepreneur found success through Instagram [Wamda TV]

When 26 year old Sarah Al Dabbagh graduated with a degree in early childhood education from Simmons College in Boston she returned to...

Event Planning instagram

Advice for managing a growing team as you scale [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Tarek Sultan, CEO and General Manager of Agility, a global ...

Logistics Expert Advice Team management

Can Microsoft help scale R&D in the Middle East? [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Charbel Fakhoury, VP of Sales, Marketing, and Services at M...

R&D Technology Ecosystem

How student entrepreneurs are transforming Morocco's economy

The May, before Enactus Morocco hosted its 10th annual entrepreneurship competition for students, we caught up with Touria Benlafqih, the...

Students Competitions Social Entrepreneurship

What can the Bank of Palestine do to better support startups? [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting on the Middle East and North Africa in the Dead Sea, Jordan this May, we tried to...

Banks Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Ecosystem

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