Wamda

Global

Startup Watch: Beware the Trump, driverless cars, celebrity engagements and the constant inventor

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Payfort driverless cars

Regional

Wisdom and warnings: Twitter chat with Christopher Schroeder and Marwan Kheireddine

“[We] need to stop thinking of MENA as one country - some areas [are] hard, even tragic; some [are] rising,” tweeted...

Christopher Schroeder Marwan Kheireddine YPO

Regional

Taking a sledgehammer to hierarchy

Payfort is implementing a radical new company structure, one where CEO Omar Soudodi is no longer CEO, call center staff have voted to...

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Regional

Blueprint of a VC fund

This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared on Medium. Newly formed VC firms are startups that are vying for...

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Global

Startup Watch: Saudi cash, zombie startups, and your how-to-fire guide

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch careem KarmSolar

Global

Three growth hacking tricks to keep online users [Wamda TV]

Some entrepreneurs only consider putting effort into marketing just as they are launching their product. For growth hacking and marketing...

Growth hacking

Regional

What I know about money and hardware: PK Gulati

Hardware is in vogue. Where once you needed years, millions of dollars, and institutional support to launch a device or hardware...

The Assembly hardware investing PK Gulati

Iraq

Home or away? The best market may not be under your nose

Starting in your home market is not necessarily the best way to success, a lesson Iraqi-founded Apps Lab learned the hard way. Apps Lab...

Apps Lab Ali Al-Hilli Hajwilha ya Saudi

Regional

Startup Watch: Pokémon Go, VCs are ponzi schemes, and Cairo's legacy of entrepreneurship

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch daraty Steve Blank

Regional

What I know about making people pay: Hadi Raad

Fintech is the hot sector of 2016: banks are jumping into it, the Nasdaq is testing ideas, Abu Dhabi is setting up a fintech...

Collaborative Entrepreneurship Visa Bridge

Regional

The aviation industry, a new frontier for MENA startups [Q&A]

In the world of aviation, the Middle East is one of the fastest growing regions in passenger traffic. According to IATA, the rate will...

aviation Travel Abrar Ahmad

Global

How to build smart cities

After growing accustomed to smart phones, cars, TVs and even smart homes, there's a new wave of fascination with smart cities. Indeed,...

MIT Media Lab community jameel Smartcities

Regional

What I know about mentoring: Kathleen Bury

Despite having alumni spread across 14 countries the UK-based foundation Mowgli is still having to work very hard to get people to...

Mowgli relationships

Jordan

For tech’s sake, get out of our way [Opinion]

Last October we found out the royal court wanted some major changes to reawaken Jordan’s technology sector. This was no surprise...

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Regional

Share the love with a stock option pool [Opinion]

Building a startup is a team effort, so it’s only fair that the team you share your entrepreneurial journey with also shares in some...

SOP Stock options A15

Regional

When MENA investors don’t bank on women

For years, Lebanese entrepreneur Rayan Zahab would get called in for job interviews, only to hear hiring managers say the same thing: they...

Golden Seeds Snapay Women Investing in Women Digital

Regional

How can startups build successful collaborations with corporations?

This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. Collaborative entrepreneurship initiatives are trending and an...

Coentrepreneurship Expo 2020 Dubai CE

Regional

What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres

To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in...

Adasi pal robotics robotics

Global

Do startups really create lots of good jobs?

This article is a crosspost with Harvard Business Review. Eskimos have 50 words for snow. Humans only use 10 percent of...

Employment jobs Policy

Global

How to do a Google design sprint: 10 things to know

Google Ventures' design sprint tries to take teams from problem to solution in five days. (Image via Fastcodesign) Do you want to...

agile Daniel Burka Design Sprint

Turkey

The importance of workshops for UX design

On the fourth floor of an Istanbul hotel young men and women are huddled over work tables, overlooking large poster boards, markers,...

Userspots design workshops User Experience

Maghreb

Tunisian teens start thinking like entrepreneurs

Students putting themselves in an entrepreneur’s shoes. (Images via Spark) The time is long gone when starting a business as a teenager m...

BIAT foundation Spark teenagers

Regional

A marriage of opportunity: why I believe in collaborative entrepreneurship [Opinion]

I begin with a confession: I didn’t believe in collaborative entrepreneurship. Don’t get me wrong,...

Startup Rising CE Collaborative Entrepreneurship

Egypt

Instabug and the ecosystem

Instabug has Egypt's tight-knit ecosystem to thank for much of its success. (Image via Instabug) This is an edited crosspost from Rise...

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