Weekly Wrap-Up: May 26-30 A number of the stories on Wamda this week highlighted passion, and turning it into your daily bread. Find out what challenges the ... Wamda • 31 May, 2013 Weekly Wrap-Up
How to raise your kids to be entrepreneurs Some children may not be born to be lawyers or doctors, or to get good grades in a traditional school, but they might have other skills... Aline Mayard • 30 May, 2013 Education
Cairo’s PushBots introduces simple tweet-to-notify push notifications Cairo startup PushBots has just released a disarmingly simple way for app managers to send notifications to their app users... Omar Aysha • 30 May, 2013
How this French entrepreneur launched a telecom service in Tunisia This piece is part of a new series on expat entrepreneurs.e Almost all entrepreneurs, at least for a time, share the same concern:... Aline Mayard • 30 May, 2013 Telecommunication Expatriate entrepreneurs
Global Rethinking success: why entrepreneurship may not be for everybody I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur one day; I love innovation and creating new things. I used to read books and blogs... Abdullah Alshalabi • 30 May, 2013 Advice
The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2013: how the region can build more effective economies [Report] Qatar is the most competitive economy in the Arab region according to the the Arab World Competitiveness Report 2013, which was just... Wamda • 29 May, 2013 Report World Economic Forum
Launching a fishing startup in the Gulf “I used to go fishing with my uncle, but once I graduated it was difficult without my own boat,” says Kuwaiti entrepreneur Abdullah Als... Glen Dalakian II • 29 May, 2013 Dubai Incubator Sports
Government-backed investment in Egypt: Does it benefit entrepreneurs? For many entrepreneurs in the Arab world, funding is the main obstacle standing between them and their dreams. The majority of young... Hanan Solayman • 29 May, 2013 Egypt Investment
Meet the Egyptian entrepreneur trying to build a digital brain Coauthored with Mazen Aly, Egyptian Artificial Intelligence Ph.D. student at Max Planck Computer Research Institute in Germany. "In order... Ahmed Gabr • 29 May, 2013 Data Egypt Technology
Middle East Venture Partners invests $1.9 million in three scaling companies With a history of investing in tech and e-commerce ventures, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) is now diversifying a... Nina Curley • 28 May, 2013 Venture Capital MEVP Scaling
Meet the group of friends organizing a Startup Weekend roadshow in Morocco In Morocco, Startup Weekends have been wildly popular. Eight weekends have been organized in a two year span, with over 142 ideas... Aline Mayard • 28 May, 2013 Startup Weekend
5 reasons you should accept a new job, even if it terrifies you When I was applying for my last job, which was outside of my field of study or any previous experience, a colleague gave me a great piece... Glen Dalakian II • 28 May, 2013 Tips Advice
Saudi woman entrepreneur rethinks how we make Arabic coffee Making Arabic coffee is a complicated and delicate process. The coffee beans must be properly roasted, ground, brewed, then boiled before... Ahmed Gabr • 28 May, 2013 Coffeehouses Badir Saudi Arabia
YouTube and CairoDar Launch education portal for Egyptian high school students Students studying for tawjihi in Egypt now have a new online resource: YouTube and CairoDar's new education portal, which will provide... Nina Curley • 27 May, 2013 Students EdTech Education
Could Morocco's Made in Medina be the next Time Out for the Arab world? Famous Moroccan city guide Made in Medina has now expanded to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beirut and now Bruxelles, Belgium. So how did a... Aline Mayard • 27 May, 2013 Franchising City Guides Scaling
The challenges of launching a startup in Doha Entrepreneurs are hard to come by in Qatar; small and medium-size enterprises make up only 15% of the economy and only about 2% of Qataris... Christina Paschyn • 27 May, 2013 Consulting Training Ecosystem
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