Wamda

Start Up Weekend Alexandria: Still the Best Entrepreneurship Event in Egypt

The second Start Up Weekend Alexandria (SWA) was held on the 27th to 29th September 2012, and while it’s always nearly impossible to r...

Ecosystem Mentorship Startup Communities

Ever Dreamt of a Private Jet Trip? Dubai's iFlyPrivate Capitalizes on Empty Seats

For all of those travelers who have fantasized about flying on a private jet, iFlyPrivate is now making private travel more...

Airlines

CIPE 2012 International Youth Essay Competition

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is hosting the CIPE 2012 International Youth Essay Competition. CIPE invites...

Competitions

Top 20 Most-Watched TED Talks Of All Time

Today we highlight the most popular TED Talks to date, announced by TED in late August. Whether you think watching TED Talks during the...

Advice Conferences Ecosystem

Good Ideas Are Too Valuable To Waste [Pic of the Week]

Creativity is perhaps the most valuable asset a startup can have. I’m not describing that one creative idea that launches a startup or i...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

First Startup Q8 (Kuwait) Event

On Wednesday, September 26th, Startup Q8 (Kuwait) is hosting the first Startup Q8 Event at Think Cafe in Kuwait City. Join this powerful ...

Startup Communities

How Can Cities in MENA Encourage and Retain Creativity?

What makes a city creative? There are a few factors. Density is one; cities with higher densities increase the chance of meaningful...

Ecosystem Innovation

Hockey Tips for Entrepreneurs: Do You Know Where the Puck is Going?

While not a huge hockey fan, I am a great admirer of the sport’s legend Wayne Gretsky. I simply am in awe when women and men come a...

Ecosystem Innovation

Entrepreneur of the Week: Faris Zaher of Yamsafer [Wamda TV]

Faris Zaher chats with Wamda about the difference between his initial idea and the idea that he ended up launching with Yamsafer, how he...

Entrepreneur of the Week

How to Generate and Assess Good Entrepreneurial Ideas

You may think that entrepreneurs have the ability to produce better and more efficient streams of ideas than ordinary people. While it’s b...

Innovation Ideas

9 Secrets for Replicating Silicon Valley's Success

July’s Global Innovation Summit (GIS) in Silicon Valley brought together 400 people to share ideas and on what makes a good s...

Ecosystem Innovation

Fekrety, the AUC's Business Idea Competition, Approaches Final Round

Fekrety, the national business idea competition organized by The American University in Cairo’s School of Business – Ent...

Accelerators Competitions

3 Things that Investors and Entrepreneurs Can Do to Avoid An Eternal War

Apple is the most valuable company around the world. Google is the search titan and the innovative platform in the tech industry. Microsoft...

Investment

How Egypt Is Discussing the Presidential Elections on Facebook and Twitter

Wamda is not a place for political debate. But the entrepreneurial ecosystem does not live in a separate universe, however much we...

Digital Media Social Media

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...

The Way Forward for Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt

The fundamental role of women in Egypt’s revolution and growing its economy was the focus of the event “Co-Creation: Women and Ent...

Ecosystem Education Women

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...

Conferences Ecosystem Startup Communities

Creating a Culture Shift in Cairo

Fill a room with equal numbers of people from the arts, software developers, NGO volunteers, and business professionals. Now sprinkle some ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

4 Ways to Create a Culture of Observation at Your Startup

Did you know that marketing directors at Google use physics to explain the fundamental theories of branding? That astronomers use software...

Innovation

You Think Like An Entrepreneur If... [Pic of the Week]

While entrepreneurship is the science of forming and growing a business, the mindset associated with it has come to signify much more, a...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Student-Powered Startup Education in Egypt

What do cupcakes, touch technology, and venture capitalists have in common? In truth not much, unless we’re about talking s...

Conferences

Every Problem is An Opportunity [Pic of the Week]

This week as we open registration for upcoming event CoE E-Commerce, this piece of advice seems especially relevant. The issues that most ...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Beware of Praise [Pic of the Week]

Fadi Ghandour said it. Arif Naqvi said it. A previous entrepreneur turned VC and blogger told his story. And maybe Chuck D said it best:...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Can Policy Makers Create an Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship?

This piece is cross-posted and adapted slightly from The Economist, November 16, 2010. Zebras are beautiful. They are powerful. They...

Ecosystem

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