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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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Entrepreneur of the Week: Alemsah Ozturk of 41?-29!

This week, we chatted with Alemşah (pronouned Alem-shah) Öztürk of 41-29, one of the biggest digital agencies in Turkey. Since he started fo...

Endeavor

CloudArena plans to Disrupt the Hotel Industry in Turkey and the MENA [Wamda TV]

During the Webrazzi summit, Arden Agopyan, Ali Beklen and Tolga Yalcinkaya from CloudArena shared with us their plans to disrupt the hotel...

Data Digital Marketing Expansion

A Chat with Kaveh Gharib of Twitter: Revolutions, Mobile, and Monetization [Wamda TV]

At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Kaveh Gharib, the localization project manager at Twitter specializing in the Middle East and ...

Abu Dhabi Media Summit Mobile Social Media

How Telecom Company Orange is Creating a Culture of Intrapreneurship

David Nahmani, Business Development Director at Orange, discusses how the Jordanian mobile operator is creating a culture of...

Abu Dhabi Media Summit Data Digital Media

How to Monetize Digital Content in Emerging Markets: eMarketer’s Geoff Ramsey [Wamda TV]

Geoff Ramsey, founder of eMarketer, discusses trends in access and monetiztion of digital content in emerging markets at the 2012 Abu Dhabi...

Digital Advertising Digital Marketing Digital Media

Enabling E-Commerce: A Chat With Iyad Kamal of Aramex [Wamda TV]

At Arabnet 2012, Iyad Kamal, COO of Aramex International, explains how Aramex is enabling e-commerce throughout the Arab World and...

Arabnet Conferences Data

Does “Class” Matter in Entrepreneurial Success? A Call to Eric Ries

In a recent article on racism and meritocracy, Eric Ries calls for Silicon Valley investors to pay more attention to diversity...

Trends

The Critical Elements for Creating a Healthy Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Steven Koltai of GEP [Wamda TV]

At the recent Global Entrepreneurship Program in Turkey, Steven Koltai, Senior Advisor in Entrepreneurship to the U.S. Department of State,...

Ecosystem

How the Board of Directors can Help Manage Risk

Although there is much confusion around the role of the board in corporate efforts to manage risk, Holly J. Gregory argues that boards can...

Thought Leadership

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