Wamda

How can governments better support entrepreneurs? [Wamda TV]

At the World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, Wamda chatted with Yasar Jarrar, a Young Global Leader working as a Partner at Bain ...

World Economic Forum Government Mentorship

Gazan entrepreneur builds online platform to unite Palestine's professionals [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] One new startup in Gaza is looking to unite all of Palestine’s professionals in one accessible online network. Entrepreneur I...

Incubator Networking Accelerators

How to succeed in Morocco or Silicon Valley: Advice from Akram Benmbarek of Social IQ

Moroccan entrepreneur Akram Benmbarek spent most of his career working working as an investment banker in Silicon Valley, focusing on the...

Expert Advice Advice

Will this online tourism guide flourish in Gaza? [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Launched by Palestinian entrepreneur Mohannad Al Nounou in Gaza in early 2012, online tourism and activity guide Fos7a offers an ...

Tourism

Why contacts are more important than wealth: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 2 [Wamda TV]

After writing a piece on tips for networking, drawn from Keith Ferrazzi's famous book Never Eat Alone, Wamda contributor Nafez Dakkak sat do...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Expert Advice

How to add value to your business contacts: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 4 [Wamda TV]

If you're trying to build a relationship with someone new, you shouldn't ask at first, how can they help you, but rather, how can you help...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Expert Advice

How to be generous with business contacts: a chat with Keith Ferrazzi, Part 5 [Wamda TV]

In the final segment of our 5-part interview with Keith Ferrazzi, the author of Never Eat Alone, Wamda contributor Nafez Dakkak asks, how...

Keith Ferrazzi Never Eat Alone Advice

Startup Weekend Tunis

Startup Weekend comes to Tunis, Tunisia on April 19-21, 2013. SW Tunis will follow the basic Startup Weekend model, anyone...

Startup Weekend

Expert Advice: 5 Tips for Building an E-Commerce Company from Andre Haddad [Wamda TV]

Over the past 13 years, Lebanese entrepreneur Andre Haddad has honed his expertise in e-commerce. Now based in the San Francisco Bay...

eBay Expert Advice Sharing Economy

A Tour of Wixel Studios in Lebanon: Launching Survival Race [Wamda TV]

Note: Wixel Studios has since changed the game’s name from Abou Ahmad the Arabian (AAA) to Survival Race. Today, Wixel Studios in Lebanon l...

Mobile Gaming Gaming

Business Model Design and Lean-Startup Workshop

Designed to teach participants the practical principles of classic books the Business Model Generation and The Lean Startup, this workshop...

Workshops

Entrepreneur of the Week: Serkan Sevim of MediaNova in Turkey [Wamda TV]

This week, we chatted with Serkan Sevim, the founder of Medianova, one of Turkey's leading digital services companies. Before founding the...

The Business Factory Inaugural Event

The inaugural Business Factory event is being organized by global women entrepreneurs community Heels & Deals and will take place on ...

Women

From Bankruptcy to Topping the Arabia500: German Imaging Technologies [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Sassan Khatib-Shahidi, co-founder and CEO of Dubai-based printer cartridge ...

Failure

TNWebDays

For its first edition, TNWebDays will hold a series of workshops, talks and hackathons on entrepreneurship and security throughout the f...

Security Startup Weekend

Matching Entrepreneurs with the Right Mentors: A Chat with Paris Norriss of Rise UAE [Wamda TV]

At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Paris Norriss, the founder of Rise UAE, discusses how his program connects experienced mentors with ...

Ecosystem Mentorship

MedESS 2013 Conference

This year, spring will be about involvement in solidarity! That’s at least what MedESS 2013 is proposing. During 3 days, participants will b...

Conferences Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Dubai-Based Custom Suit Startup Helps Men Look Sharp Around the Globe [Wamda TV]

Tarig El Sheikh and Matt Mueller have set out to solve a problem that men around the world suffer from: ill-fitting suits. "As a poorly...

Expansion E-commerce

Entrepreneur of the Week: Alemsah Ozturk of 41?-29!

This week, we chatted with Alemşah (pronouned Alem-shah) Öztürk of 41-29, one of the biggest digital agencies in Turkey. Since he started fo...

Endeavor

Going Global in an Emerging Market: Tips from Alexander Galitsky of Almaz Capital [Wamda TV]

Alexander Galitsky, managing partner and co-founder of leading Russian venture capital firm Almaz Capital, was one of the key speakers at...

Advice Ecosystem Innovation

Entrepreneur of the Week: Niall Sallam of Elevision [Wamda TV]

This week’s entrepreneur of the week is Niall Sallam, founder of Elevision, an elevator content broadcasting company in Dubai. Sallam d...

Advertising Entrepreneur of the Week

How Turkish Jewelry Company Hazinem Plans to Enter the Middle East [Wamda TV]

During the Webrazzi Summit, we chatted with Sevgi Soysal from Hazinem, a Turkish jewelry e-commerce company. Soysal told us about the...

E-commerce Marketing Scaling

CloudArena plans to Disrupt the Hotel Industry in Turkey and the MENA [Wamda TV]

During the Webrazzi summit, Arden Agopyan, Ali Beklen and Tolga Yalcinkaya from CloudArena shared with us their plans to disrupt the hotel...

Data Digital Marketing Expansion

A Chat with Kaveh Gharib of Twitter: Revolutions, Mobile, and Monetization [Wamda TV]

At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Kaveh Gharib, the localization project manager at Twitter specializing in the Middle East and ...

Abu Dhabi Media Summit Mobile Social Media

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