Namshi Receives Investment from Summit Partners On the heels of its $20 million investment round from J.P. Morgan and Blakeney Management this past September, Dubai-based fashion... Nina Curley • 10 January, 2013 Rocket Internet Investment Namshi
212 Capital Partners Invests in Turkish Supply Chain Design Company Solvoyo 212 Capital Partners, one of Turkey’s leading early stage venture capital funds, has announced its first investment of the year in Solvoyo, ... Nina Curley • 10 January, 2013 Investment
How to Nurture Global Ambition: A Chat with John Bradford of Springboard [Wamda TV] Springboard is an intensive 13-week mentor-led business accelerator program based in London and Cambridge that offers entrepreneurs office... Gulay Ozkan • 09 January, 2013 Accelerators Advice Scaling
First Book Exchange Social Network Launches in Egypt On December 27, 2012, Badl Kitabk officially launched the first book exchange social network in Egypt, offering their service for... Ahmed Gabr • 09 January, 2013 Book Reviews Egypt
TEDxAUC's Idea Bakers Celebrates Egyptian Entrepreneurship TEDxAUC held its second event “Idea Bakers” at the American University of Cairo (AUC) New Cairo campus, at the end of December. The ev... Omar Aysha • 09 January, 2013
Wellnesia to Indulge Dubai with New Spa and Beauty Hub In the Arab world, the web has been buzzing lately with sites offering flash sales, low prices and online booking, often for restaurants,... Maya Rahal • 09 January, 2013 Digital Marketing Ecosystem Health & Beauty
HUB Dubai Set to Launch UAE's Newest Co-Working Space On 12/12/12 12:12 PM and precisely 12 seconds Dubai time, HUB Dubai launched virtual operations; the physical space is expected... Maya Rahal • 08 January, 2013 Coworking Spaces Startup Communities
5 Easy Steps for Setting Up an E-Commerce Store in the Middle East This series by Mohanad Ghashim of ShopGo.me is part of our Demystifying E-Commerce series. It will explore various technical... Mohanad Ghashim • 08 January, 2013 Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce Payment Gateways
Learning and Development Open Forum at Shelter Dubai Organizational learning and development has become one of the most important topics in the field of management and leadership, to bring... Wamda • 08 January, 2013 Conferences Education
How to Build a Startup Community: Do's and Don'ts Since I returned to Kuwait after living abroad, I have been asking myself how we can build a startup community in Kuwait. We lag behind... Abdullah Alshalabi • 08 January, 2013 Startup Communities Startup Q8
Save Paper at Your Startup, Part 2: Invoices In the first part of the series, I wrote about digitizing your business cards. This article, the second in our series on saving paper (and... Ahmed Gabr • 08 January, 2013 Environment
Turkey Turkey Management 3.0: Agile Leadership Practices Course Scrum Turkey is hosting an Agile Leadership Practices Course in Ankara, Turkey on January 29-30, 2013. Taught by Jurgen Appelo, the... Wamda • 07 January, 2013 Developers Education
How Much Does a Facebook Fan Cost in the Arab World? [Report] The Online Project recently released a report answering the question “How much does a Facebook fan cost in the Arab world?” offering bus... Wamda • 07 January, 2013 Advertising Facebook Marketing
5 Tips for Writing Posts on Wamda A few weeks ago, we launched our blogging platform so that you can openly share your thoughts and insights on entrepreneurship with the... Wamda • 07 January, 2013 Ideas Advice Competitions
GIST Entrepreneurs in Action Photo Contest Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) invites submissions from the 44 eligible program countries in the Middle East, Ce... Wamda • 07 January, 2013 Competitions
7 Essential Tips for E-Commerce SEO If you’re looking to optimize an e-commerce website for search, there are plenty of simple ways to ensure that your products are ranked w... Wissam Dandan • 07 January, 2013 Analytics SEO E-commerce