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Can media marketplaces disrupt traditional news outlets?

The statistics are by now familiar: newspaper and magazine subscriptions are in free fall, Facebook and Twitter are on the rise, and what...

marketplace news Media

Not an incubator, not an accelerator, but a startup academy: Bedaya launches in Egypt

Bedaya Startup Academy is one of the few entrepreneurship training program existing outside the academic sphere in...

Training

Is building hardware in China the secret to crowdfunding a huge seed round?

Devices are having a moment, and so is HAXLR8R. The hardware-focused startup accelerator, based between San Francisco and Shenzhen, China,...

accelerator haxlr8r china

How a startup goes from idea to IPO [Infographic]

For those who may get a bit confused by all of the jargon and stages associated with startup investment, Funders and Founders presents the...

Funding Venture Capital Angel Investment

6 startup challenges answered at Mix N' Mentor Beirut

Our latest Mix n' Mentor wasn't just cool because it was hosted in an old silk factory in the suburbs of Beirut; it was also a more...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

The story of Jordanian pharmaceutical giant Hikma: from bartering to IPO [Case Study]

This is the fifth post in our case study series, in partnership with the El Khazindar Business Research and Case Center (KCC) at the A...

case study Healthcare Health

U.A.E

The story of Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob [Case Study]

This is the fourth post in our case study series, in partnership with the El Khazindar Business Research and Case...

case study Acquisitions

Guy Kawasaki’s top 11 mistakes made by entrepreneurs [Video]

As one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh computer in 1984, Guy Kawasaki has since started his own...

Venture Capital Expert Advice Tips

Not another cupcake shop: Bahrain's women entrepreneurs debate what local startups need

If there’s one place in the Arab world one can go to understand the complex relationship between women, government, and entrepreneurship i...

Ecosystem

Visualizing Palestine unites activism and entrepreneurship

In 2009, Ramzi Jaber quit his job as a civil engineer in Jerusalem to organize TEDxRamallah. Upon moving to Ramallah to begin work on the...

indiegogo palestine Crowdfunding

3 ways to build a better city

Developing a world-class city often involves creating a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem. New studies from McKinsey and the National...

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Government

Healthcare portal WebTeb closes Series B round from Siraj Palestine Fund

On top of reaching over 3.5 million unique visitors per month, Arabic medical content portal WebTeb just announced new investment from...

Healthcare Content Portals Health & Beauty

A look at Just Falafel's recipe as it (potentially) readies for an IPO

Fadi Malas of Just Falafel is working overtime lately. “We’re finishing work these days quite late, I think around midnight,” he expla...

IPOs Franchising Scaling

4 incubators and accelerators that can help startups set up in Dubai

This is the third and final post in this mini-series about moving your startup to Dubai. Below, I explore the incubators and accelerators...

Incubator Advice Accelerators

How to reduce cash-on-delivery in Middle East e-commerce

At a roundtable hosted by PayPal last week, representatives from some of the region’s biggest e-commerce players gathered to discuss the r...

cash-on-delivery Payment Gateways E-commerce

How Dubai media machine AWI is turning traffic into transactions with new car portal ArabsTurbo

In classifieds, Egypt has become a highly competitive market, with companies like the revamped Waseet, Dubizzle, and Avito’s Bekam duking i...

classified Content Portals

Global

If you had the chance to exit, would you sell your startup to a competitor?

Entrepreneurs are passionate by nature. They work hard to make their ideas come to life, and harder to make them survive. In a tough...

Poll Results Music Daily Deals

What did startups learn at Astrolabs' recent workshop in Amman?

After their first Scaling Online Startups (SOS) workshop in Dubai this past May, and subsequent workshops in Riyadh and Beirut,...

Astrolabs Workshops Marketing

Algerian and Egyptian startups help travelers sell products from abroad; is this model scalable?

The Arab world is no stranger to luggage that's filled to almost bursting. Many travelers return from trips abroad with kilos of purchases...

collaborative economy Sharing Economy Shipping

Can e-commerce site Cazamoda overcome the challenges of family business?

Jordan

Thought Leadership