Is Outsourcing Good for Entrepreneurship in Palestine? Feras Nasr of iConnect Tech [Wamda TV] At Amman Tech Tuesday's second anniversary event, Feras Nasr, president of outsourcing company iConnect Tech, discusses outsourcing in P... Nina Curley • 23 May, 2012 Outsourcing Trends
How To Prepare for CoE E-Commerce Day 1: Mentorship And Unconference Sessions Get ready for Day 1 of CoE, where you will experience a unique, attendee-driven agenda.1. First we will have “Lunch with Mentors.”During the... Wamda • 23 May, 2012 CoE E-Commerce Conferences COE
Tech Entrepreneurs Prepare for a New Egypt Sometimes you attend an event expecting one thing, but end up gaining insight into something completely different. Or at least in something... Omar Aysha • 23 May, 2012 Conferences Ecosystem Startup Communities
Wamda Announces Partnership with Flat6Labs During Flat6Lab’s Demo Day in Cairo, CEO Ramez Mohammed announced the accelerator’s partnership with fellow entrepreneurship hub Wamda. Wam... Wamda • 23 May, 2012 Accelerators Investment
Entrepreneurs as Nation Builders: Pioneers in Pakistan "Your problem is solved." With those words, Sir Adamjee Dawood, one of Pakistan’s greatest entrepreneurs, saved the country from f... Malik Ahmad Jalal • 22 May, 2012 Ecosystem
EOTW: The Challenges of Being a Hardware Entrepreneur: Hind Hobeika of Heart Rate Monitor Butterfleye [Wamda TV] This week's Entreptreneur of the Week is Hind Hobeika of Lebanon, the creator of Butterfleye, which is now a finalist in the MIT Arab... Nina Curley • 22 May, 2012 Competitions Entrepreneur of the Week
Moroccan Site Asnad Offers Online Market for Arabic Digital Content Those looking to become creative entrepreneurs have a new avenue for monetizing their products, with the launch of e-commerce... Maya Rahal • 22 May, 2012 E-commerce
Starting Up a Jewelry Business in Bahrain From Home: Khouloud Abdel Kader [Wamda TV] At the MENA Business Women's Network Forum this past April, Bahraini young woman, Khouloud Abdel Kader who founded Curve Jewelry in 2010,... Maya Rahal • 21 May, 2012 Conferences
Maghreb Startup Initiative Launches Competition for North African Entrepreneurs North African entrepreneurs, get your ideas ready: The Maghreb Startup Initiative is now live. Founded as a partnership between the... Nina Curley • 21 May, 2012 Accelerators Competitions
Speed Mentoring in Cairo: A Step Towards a Mentorship Framework? Finding a business mentor is a lot like finding a date. Physical attractiveness is important for dates, professional attractiveness for... Omar Aysha • 21 May, 2012 Conferences
Striving for Funding: Confessions from Dubai's CareZone Editor’s note (NC): Sometimes a good idea does not find funding in an appropriate time frame. It could be a failure of execution, o... Wamda • 21 May, 2012 Investment
Mowgli Partners with Enterprise Qatar, Enters the Gulf U.K.-based mentoring platform Mowgli Foundation has announced a new partnership with small and medium enterprise support organization... Nina Curley • 21 May, 2012 Mentorship
Beirut's The Dream Matcher Demonstrates the Value of a Niche Social Network I was recently invited to a second dream matching event in Beirut by The Dream Matcher, an ambitious project that aims to improve the p... Ramy Ghaly • 20 May, 2012 Social Networks
6 Leadership Lessons for Entrepreneurs from Paul Polman of Unilever Will it be awfully clichéd if I start this post with a done-to-death movie dialogue? I guess it would be but I can’t think of a better st... Bushra Azhar • 20 May, 2012
Encouraging a Culture of Innovation in Saudi Arabia: Hayat Sindi of i2 [Wamda TV] At the MENA Business Women's Network Forum this past April, Hayat Sindi of i2, the Institute for Imagination and Ingenuity, describes the... Nina Curley • 20 May, 2012
Beyond Recycling: Going Green in Saudi Arabia Ask most people in Saudi Arabia what they know about going green and the first thing they say is “recycling." There seems to be a lot of b... Shaima Alhaj • 20 May, 2012 Environment