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... Wamda • 06 September, 2012 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.... Glen Dalakian II • 06 September, 2012 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... Glen Dalakian II • 30 August, 2012 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... Chris Gallagher • 11 June, 2012
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... Wamda • 10 June, 2012
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... Nafez Dakkak • 16 April, 2012
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... Nina Curley • 08 February, 2012 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... Gulay Ozkan • 30 December, 2011
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... Wamda • 17 September, 2010
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... Wamda • 23 August, 2010
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... Wamda • 28 March, 2013 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... Wamda • 20 June, 2010
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 ... Nina Curley • 15 July, 2013 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... Wamda • 05 March, 2013 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... Wamda • 21 February, 2013 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... Nina Curley • 22 January, 2013 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... Wamda • 15 December, 2012 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 ... Nina Curley • 14 November, 2012 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... Nina Curley • 15 November, 2012 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... Wamda • 01 November, 2012 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... Wamda • 24 October, 2012 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... Gulay Ozkan • 20 September, 2012 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,... Gulay Ozkan • 01 July, 2012 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... Wamda • 03 August, 2010