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How to get your posts listed on Hacker News, the online community of passionate techies

One of the most famous places to engage with passionate entrepreneurs and builders is Hacker News, an online community launched in 2007 by...

5 tips for budding regional entrepreneurs, from Dubizzle founder J.C. Butler

J.C. Butler and Sim Whatley, founders of Dubizzle, the UAE's biggest classifieds site, created a multinational, multimillion dollar...

Dubizzle

The secret sauce for running a successful crowd investment campaign

Will 2014 be the year of crowd investment? Yes, if startups like SearchinMENA have anything to say about it. The B2B marketplace, founded...

crowdinvestment How-Tos

4 ways to increase sales on your e-commerce site

Which e-commerce website owner doesn’t dream of higher sales numbers? Making a plan and building a skilled team to increase sales on your w...

sales E-commerce

Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and the fallacy of online isolation

If you haven't seen Shimi Cohen's video, "The Innovation of Loneliness," from this summer, it's even more relevant today, as movies like...

Global

10 mistakes to avoid when speaking in public

At some point in our lives, we will most likely have to stand in front of people and present an idea or a project. While the experience...

Mistakes Expert Advice Top Lists

Startup news ticker: Integreight reaches its goal on Kickstarter in 6 hours; Kamel Al-Asmar in Forbes’ 30 Under 30

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

Egypt Crowdfunding Social Entrepreneurship

4 ways to benefit from your competitors

Entrepreneurs tend to feel more enthusiastic and motivated about executing their idea when they believe they were the first to think of...

competitors Marketing

4 steps for imagining better solutions at your startup

At Wamda Media, we’re working on running a tighter ship in 2014. That means being more in touch with what you, our readers, want to read, ...

8 tips for revitalizing a family business

Entrepreneurship isn’t always the creation of something out of nothing. Sometimes, it’s a light bulb turning on in a young, ambitious min...

WamdaCard

8 New Year's Resolutions for entrepreneurs

December is always an important time for reflection, tying up loose ends, and planning the chapters we hope to write. While some of us...

resolution new year

The future is mobile: here are the 3 things you need to build an app

According to mega-successful VC Bill Gurley, “we are in the midst of a critical platform transition,” from browsers to mobile app...

VC Mobile

How to build loyalty by turning traditional marketing on its head

For startups looking to launch a marketing campaign over the holidays, or starting in 2014, here’s a fun little nugget on marketing, f...

Customer Acquisition

5 tips for relaxing this holiday season

Happy holidays from Wamda! Whether you're celebrating Christmas today or unwinding during the winter lull, remember to schedule time off....

Tracking these 10 items will help you create better content

Lately, as online marketing shifts to a heavier focus on content, it seems that businesses are clambering to start...

Ignoring video marketing? These 11 stats reveal why you shouldn't

Is your business leveraging video marketing? If not, you’re not alone. In fact, according to BIA/Kelsey, just 22% of U.S. businesses plan ...

content Video Advertising SEO

Holiday book list: 20 essential resources for entrepreneurs

In early November, an entrepreneur asked me which books and resources that I thought would help him become a successful CEO for a...

5 tips for getting your content on Google's In-Depth Articles search result

Whenever Google introduces a new feature to search results, smart businesses will sit up and take note of the new opportunities they might...

in-depth articles SEO Google

How to increase your company's productivity? Give your employees a break

In the most widely revered startup creation myth, there’s not a lot of sleep happening. Every entrepreneur we know works around the clock a...

productivity working hours

What did Lebanese entrepreneurs learn from the Dublin Web Summit?

With 10,000 attendees this year – four times the number from last year, and twenty times the number from the first event just two years a...

Web Summit Conferences

Are you driven by your heart, brain, guts, or luck?

What drives you professionally: your heart, your brain, your guts, or your luck? Tony Tjan, a serial entrepreneur-turned-VC, gave his test...

entrepreneurship Expert Advice LeWeb

5 tips for building a successful mobile game, from 2013's biggest app success story

There’s no secret to building a good game, especially in the Middle East. Despite the fact that people in the region – especially the Gulf ...

trivia game app

Africa: an untapped opportunity for Middle Eastern startups

Cellular penetration in Africa is growing at a rate of around 4.2 percent – a rate unequalled anywhere else in the world. In terms of m...

africa Mobile messaging Mobile Penetration

Meet SafirLab, a French accelerator for entrepreneurs from the Arab world

In Paris, it's not often that you’re sitting in a room with entrepreneurs from across the entire Arab world, listening to them pitch s...

accelerator events

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