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Tunisia

How twin brothers made their startup fly, so high

A small aviation startup in Tunisia has made a first by not only signing a deal with the Tunisian plane company Nouvelair, but with Airbus...

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Regional

Support Legal: subscription based lawyer services for startups [Wamda TV]

Wamda speaks to Patrick Rogers and Lee McMahon cofounders of Support Legal, a new kind of law firm that is targeting entrepreneurs and...

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Morocco

Morocco's trash spotting app

The rise of smartphone penetration and the emergence of digital tools is turning crowdsourcing into a popular business model. It enables...

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Kuwait

What I know about first hires: Fahad Al-Falah

This article is a crosspost with Nuwait Having spent the last 20 years identifying, hiring, and retaining team members, Fahad Al-Falah...

Jordan

In Jordan, technology is serving refugees

Rana Kelani is an Iraqi refugee who arrived in Jordan four years ago. In the last year, she has learned how to code, found work and started...

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Egypt

Arabnet Dubai promotes investments in the MENA's emerging markets

As Arabnet CEO Omar Christidis took his last strides on the Arabnet Digital Summit stage in Dubai and shared some telling numbers, the...

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Tunisia

Seedstars pushes Tunisian startups to scale more

At the Mediterranean School of Business campus in Tunis, the Seedstars team gathered a dozen Tunisian startups around a competition that...

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Tunisia

The Startup Act bill is opening new doors for Tunisian entrepreneurs

Tunisian entrepreneurs are finally seeing a draft of the Startup Act. The latest is that it’s under negotiation before being...

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Morocco

Screendy: focusing on product, not customer outreach

What if entrepreneurs no longer needed to look for customers and could just focus on creating the best product for them? This is what...

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Tunisia

Entrepreneurship and marriage don’t mix in Tunisia

“I don’t plan to get married anytime soon,” teased Mohamed Ben Abdellah, 28, founder of ceramics startup El Houch. He...

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Morocco

Lamia Bazir is rethinking social entrepreneurship in Morocco

Lamia Bazir could have made a career outside Morocco, advocating for women’s empowerment and gender equality all over the world....

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Morocco

Bidaya Space in Morocco searches for seed stars

Casablanca greentech incubator Espace Bidaya has helped 19 startups launch into the world since it began, and 14 are on track to survive...

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Egypt

Upper Egypt entrepreneurs demand more attention

Luxor entrepreneurs hope they will be the lucky recipients of rising international, if not national, attention after the UN launched two...

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Saudi Arabia

Takamol Holding helping both startups and investors

It’s a common scenario: Saudi entrepreneurs complain about the lack of investment and venture capital put into startups, while...

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Tunisia

Two thirds of women-led startups fail in Tunisia, report

Only a third of startups founded by women in Tunisia will survive compared to over two-thirds of those by men, a new study shows. The...

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Lebanon

Lebanese entrepreneurs, move out of the city

Hellish rush hour is nothing new to those who live or work in Beirut. However, road traffic fatalities, which reached 1,088 in 2015,...

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Regional

Data Science: a field in demand [Wamda TV]

From casual office discussions to blogs and coffee tables around the world, the future of jobs is a topic heavily discussed amongst all...

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Lebanon

Big deals announced at Arabnet Beirut

At Arabnet Beirut this week Flat6labs, a regional incubator, announced that it was accepting applications for a $20 million local...

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Tunisia

Teaching tech in Tunisia

On a Saturday afternoon, rather than playing video games or going out with some friends, 70 teenagers came to the Cogite coworking space to...

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Global

The secret to startup success in Africa

This is an excerpt of an article crossposted from Harvard Business Review. A tale of two strategies Why do so many...

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Morocco

Moroccan 'search engine for sales' Vendo raises seed round

Two-year-old Moroccan ecommerce search engine Vendo.ma has raised 2.7 million dirhams (US$267,000) from a business angel based in...

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Saudi Arabia

Why education in Saudi Arabia needs a boost [WamdaTV]

Mashail Balkouka, an electrical and computer engineering student at Effat University in Saudi Arabia, talks about the importance of making...

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Tunisia

Left out: Tunisian startups demand attention

Tunisian entrepreneurs think the government should pay more attention to them rather than focusing on megaprojects, after a major...

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Regional

Founders depression: The dark side of the startup hype in MENA

Sitting at a startup accelerator program aimed at supporting young entrepreneurs in Jordan, Ala’a Suleiman, cofounder and CEO of...

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