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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

How can governments better support entrepreneurs? [Wamda TV]

At the World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, Wamda chatted with Yasar Jarrar, a Young Global Leader working as a Partner at Bain ...

World Economic Forum Government Mentorship

Gazan entrepreneur builds online platform to unite Palestine's professionals [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] One new startup in Gaza is looking to unite all of Palestine’s professionals in one accessible online network. Entrepreneur I...

Incubator Networking Accelerators

How to succeed in Morocco or Silicon Valley: Advice from Akram Benmbarek of Social IQ

Moroccan entrepreneur Akram Benmbarek spent most of his career working working as an investment banker in Silicon Valley, focusing on the...

Expert Advice Advice

Will this online tourism guide flourish in Gaza? [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Launched by Palestinian entrepreneur Mohannad Al Nounou in Gaza in early 2012, online tourism and activity guide Fos7a offers an ...

Tourism

Why contacts are more important than wealth: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 2 [Wamda TV]

After writing a piece on tips for networking, drawn from Keith Ferrazzi's famous book Never Eat Alone, Wamda contributor Nafez Dakkak sat do...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Expert Advice

How to add value to your business contacts: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 4 [Wamda TV]

If you're trying to build a relationship with someone new, you shouldn't ask at first, how can they help you, but rather, how can you help...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Expert Advice

How to be generous with business contacts: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 5 [Wamda TV]

In the final segment of our 5-part interview with Keith Ferrazzi, the author of Never Eat Alone, Wamda contributor Nafez Dakkak asks, how...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Advice

Startup Weekend Tunis

Startup Weekend comes to Tunis, Tunisia on April 19-21, 2013. SW Tunis will follow the basic Startup Weekend model, anyone...

Startup Weekend

Expert Advice: 5 Tips for Building an E-Commerce Company from Andre Haddad [Wamda TV]

Over the past 13 years, Lebanese entrepreneur Andre Haddad has honed his expertise in e-commerce. Now based in the San Francisco Bay...

eBay Expert Advice Sharing Economy

A Tour of Wixel Studios in Lebanon: Launching Survival Race [Wamda TV]

Note: Wixel Studios has since changed the game’s name from Abou Ahmad the Arabian (AAA) to Survival Race. Today, Wixel Studios in Lebanon l...

Mobile Gaming Gaming

Business Model Design and Lean-Startup Workshop

Designed to teach participants the practical principles of classic books the Business Model Generation and The Lean Startup, this workshop...

Workshops

Entrepreneur of the Week: Serkan Sevim of MediaNova in Turkey [Wamda TV]

This week, we chatted with Serkan Sevim, the founder of Medianova, one of Turkey's leading digital services companies. Before founding the...

The Business Factory Inaugural Event

The inaugural Business Factory event is being organized by global women entrepreneurs community Heels & Deals and will take place on ...

Women

From Bankruptcy to Topping the Arabia500: German Imaging Technologies [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Sassan Khatib-Shahidi, co-founder and CEO of Dubai-based printer cartridge ...

Failure

TNWebDays

For its first edition, TNWebDays will hold a series of workshops, talks and hackathons on entrepreneurship and security throughout the f...

Security Startup Weekend

Matching Entrepreneurs with the Right Mentors: A Chat with Paris Norriss of Rise UAE [Wamda TV]

At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Paris Norriss, the founder of Rise UAE, discusses how his program connects experienced mentors with ...

Ecosystem Mentorship

MedESS 2013 Conference

This year, spring will be about involvement in solidarity! That’s at least what MedESS 2013 is proposing. During 3 days, participants will b...

Conferences Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Dubai-Based Custom Suit Startup Helps Men Look Sharp Around the Globe [Wamda TV]

Tarig El Sheikh and Matt Mueller have set out to solve a problem that men around the world suffer from: ill-fitting suits. "As a poorly...

Expansion E-commerce

Thought Leadership

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