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... Glen Dalakian II • 26 September, 2012 Airlines
Mashroo3i Business Plan Competition Reveals Bahrain's Top Young Entrepreneurs For those curious about up and coming startups in the Bahraini entrepreneurship community, new business plan competition Mashroo3i,... Leena AlOlaimy • 24 September, 2012 Competitions
Build Your Business Plan – Workshops Bedaya Center is organizing a series of workshops entitled: “Build Your Business Plan”, to help small businesses and entrepreneurs to con... Wamda • 21 August, 2012 Workshops
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
M&A's Overlooked Pitfall: The False Negative Plenty of merger deals should never happen: Buyers are too often attracted to "false positives" in targets that are overvalued. Less... Knowledge @Wharton • 10 May, 2012 Acquisitions
MIT Announces 14 Finalists in Arab Business Plan Competition Of the 50 teams that the MIT Enterprise Forum accepted into the semifinal round of the Arab Business Plan Competition, the... Nina Curley • 09 May, 2012 MIT MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition
Women in Business Challenge Competition 2011-2012 BID CHALLENGE Women in Business is organizing the 3rd edition of the business plan competition for women entrepreneurs in emerging markets.... Wamda • 16 February, 2012 Competitions
The MENA 100 Business Plan Competition: Promoting Innovative Entrepreneurship Launched in 2009, the MENA 100 Business Plan Competition is now accepting applications for its third competition, with a deadline of... Maya Rahal • 07 February, 2012 Competitions
Can an Egyptian Virtual Call Center Outprice India? As local small businesses in Egypt suffer, due to reduced consumer spending during the country’s economic crisis, one entrepreneur is p... Nina Curley • 27 January, 2012
Building Quiet Optimism at the Launch of the 5th MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition As the 5th round of the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition launched this past Thursday on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, it set... Nina Curley • 04 October, 2011
How to Win the MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition This Thursday, the MIT Enterprise Forum is launching the 5th round of its yearly Arab Business Plan Competition, at the Radisson Blu Hotel... Nina Curley • 25 September, 2011 MIT MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition
Sitat Byoot: The Power of Simplifying a Model In the wake of funding struggles, Saeed Omar of Jordanian handicraft business Sitat Byoot is transforming his challenges into a vehicle for... Nina Curley • 08 September, 2011
How to Create an Effective Business Plan When an entrepreneur has identified a potential business opportunity, the next step is developing a business plan for the new venture. What... Wamda • 16 September, 2010
Could Free Be Your New Path to Profitability? Entrepreneurs in the tech space may have to build a business model around giving their product away for nothing and monetizing the audience... Wamda • 23 August, 2010
Watch the MIT Enterprise Forum Workshop Livestream Watch the Livestream from the 5th Annual MIT Enterprise Forum Entrepreneurship Workshop: Writing a Business Plan and Winning the... Wamda • 18 March, 2012 Competitions MIT
Freemium: A business model startups can’t ignore The word “freemium” may be less than four years old, but the business model it describes – offering basic service access for free and then ... Wamda • 16 September, 2010
8th Startup Q8: Multi-sided platforms On Monday, May 27th, Startup Q8 (Kuwait) is hosting their 8th event at the Global Tower, Al-Shuhada Street, Kuwait City. At this month’s ev... Wamda • 22 May, 2013 Startup Q8
Egyptian Startup Seeks to Streamline Travel Booking in the Middle East [Wamda TV] [Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, we chatted with Hussein Al-Sakkaf, Founder and CEO of Go Ejaza, a travel planning platform f... Wamda • 13 March, 2013 Egypt Travel
Startup Weekend Cairo Startup Weekend comes to Cairo, Egypt on April 18-20, 2013. SW Cairo will follow the basic Startup Weekend model, anyone can pitch their id... Wamda • 11 March, 2013 Startup Weekend Competitions Egypt
TNWebDays For its first edition, TNWebDays will hold a series of workshops, talks and hackathons on entrepreneurship and security throughout the f... Wamda • 26 February, 2013 Security Startup Weekend
GIST Tech-I Deadline Approaching for 2012 Competition The GIST Tech-I Competition is open to innovators and entrepreneurs who want to take their venture to new markets. This is a chance to w... Wamda • 31 August, 2012 Startup Communities
Cisco's Starting a Business Course The Cisco Entrepreneur Institute's Starting a Business Course is specifically designed to empower individuals who want to start a small to... Wamda • 28 September, 2010
Break-even Calculator SME Toolkit offers a Break-Even Calculator software that enables small business owners to assess how much revenue they need to cover both... Wamda • 20 June, 2010
How to Create a Business Plan SME Toolkit's offers a tutorial on creating a Business Plan: - What is a Business Plan?- Why Prepare a Business Plan? - What to avoid in ... Wamda • 20 June, 2010