Wamda

Regional

This is why MENA corporates should invest more in agriculture [Opinion]

Recent reports providing data on investments in the food and beverage (F&B) sector indicate its increasing importance to the Middle...

Agriculture oped Corporate investment

Global

Startups, brace yourselves for these hurdles [Opinion]

It’s common knowledge that startups fail at the whopping rate of 90 percent. For this reason, whatever their differences, startups...

startups recruitment talents

Tunisia

What I know about building an ecosystem from scratch: Wassel Berrayana

In 2000, Wassel Berrayana was an employee in HQ Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley’s companies, when he decided to leave his job...

it decentralization entrepreneurship

Regional

What I know about building ecosystems in emerging countries: Linda Rottenberg

It only took Linda Rottenberg a brief conversation with a taxi driver in Buenos Aires to launch Endeavor. Initially an engineer, this...

What I Know Endeavor Linda Rottenberg

Turkey

What I know about building a living lab: Ersin Pamuksüzer

Aside from R&D centers and fablabs, open spaces to test, research, and apply new technological products or services are distressingly...

Living Labs What I Know

Tunisia

What I know about building a solid team: Khaled Helioui

Khaled Helioui left his job as CEO of the German video game company Bigpoint last May. He had joined the company at the age of 29 years...

management profitability growth

Regional

A key enabler of innovation is commitment to diversity

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower,” once said late Steve Jobs, founder of Apple. During periods of...

Team Diversity Expert Advice

Global

Beyond classic marketing tools: how to contract with social media influencers

This article is an edited crosspost with SME Law. The classic advertising scheme is evolving, with classic advertising strategies ceding...

Social media influencers Marketing digital influencer marketing

Lebanon

4 lessons from a rising Lebanese VC

When it comes to VCs on the Lebanese scene, Phoenician Funds is the new kid on the block. One year old now, it was cofounded by Jad...

Phoenician Funds Circular 331 lebanon

Global

6 tips for becoming a successful entrepreneur

Being a true entrepreneur is not for everyone, as it is not a simple lifestyle mode. It is a very challenging task and requires a...

Expert Advice startups Success Stories

Regional

Talents get hired [Video]

This video is a crosspost with IFC. Figures and statistics released by the World Bank reveal that 28 percent of the Arab...

Nabbesh.com Expert's advice

Regional

How to make a good digital media strategy for your business [Wamda TV]

In a region where internet penetration is rapidly growing (60 percent in 2017), having a good digital strategy for your business is...

Jad Yammine content strategies content

Global

Speaking is winning [Wamda TV]

The American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel”. When...

public speaking

U.A.E

Ola Doudin on the potential of Bitcoin in the region [WamdaTV]

Bitoasis is a service that allows users in the Middle East to easily buy and sell Bitcoin. Launched in Dubai in 2014, Bitoasis is now...

BitOasis Bitcoin

Lebanon

How can data science and analytics improve education? [Wamda TV]

The Arab region still lags behind when it comes to mining big data for decision making, especially in the education sector. While...

data science Women in Data Science AUBWIDS

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,...

tripoli entrepreneurs club Shouf Entrepreneurs Neopreneur

Regional

MENA social enterprises grow in spite of deep-rooted challenges and little support [Report]

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) in the Arab world stands on a paradox: It has every reason to thrive and yet every excuse to die. This is...

social enterprise Social Entrepreneurship Jordan

Global

You created a store within a marketplace. Now what? [Opinion]

A very common approach for brands and retailers that want to start selling online is to set up a ‘shop-in-shop’, or a branded...

ecommerce marketplace Souq.com

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...

Ghana Nigeria M-Kopa

U.A.E

What I know about approaching corporations: Jean-Michel Gauthier

When Jean-Michel Gauthier talks about unemployment, he does not point to job matching technology as the only solution his company is trying...

What I Know internsME corporations

Bahrain

Bahrain’s shift from oil to silicon [Opinion]

Of the businesses registered in Bahrain, 80 percent are SMEs and they are basically what drive our economy. We have other large...

Hamed Fakhro Bahrain Advice

Global

Artificial Intelligence will make our kids better learners [WamdaTV]

Looking at traditional education, the system is focused on ‘teaching’ rather than ‘learning’. This is what Philipp...

Artificial intelligence MIT Media Lab Philip Schmidt

Regional

How to build a company that will last forever [Opinion]

Scale is important for startups to put them on the radar of strategic acquirers, which are a more likely route to an exit in MENA than...

talabat strategic acquirer Exit

Global

What I know about pitching: Bianca Praetorius

You’re on stage. It’s not your favorite place; as an engineer you’re more used to hiding in a lab or behind a computer...

What I Know Pitching how to pitch

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