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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...

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How Lebanese gaming portal At7addak is building an online empire with user-generated content

As I drove up to the town of Mansourieh overlooking sprawling Beirut, I wondered how such a successful online company could operate in...

Content Portals Arabic Content Gaming

Nakhweh opens its social initiative to the crowd

If 2013 was the year of crowdfunding, 2014 shows no signs of slowing when it comes to startups leveraging the power of...

Nakhweh

PieRide offers Egypt's commuters an Uber for carpooling

Traffic jams in Cairo, while infuriating, remain a source of inspiration to many entrepreneurs looking for new solutions to this daily...

Transport Transportation Egypt

Geeq Shop, the successful Egyptian all-in-one printing e-store, eyes regional expansion

Every entrepreneur wants to wear a t-shirt with her company’s logo, and leave messages on personalized sticky notes, right? But especially ...

Egypt Design E-commerce

Does Madfoo3at’s deal with the Central Bank of Jordan signal a new startup-friendly era of government?

The relationship between startups and the government in Jordan is complex. On the one hand, it’s one of the most w...

El Mashrou3, Egypt's first competitive reality show for entrepreneurs

It seems that entrepreneurship has not only impacted the Middle East economically, but in pop culture as well. Egypt recently celebrated...

Egypt

By women, for women: How two sisters are bootstrapping an online marketplace in Dubai

When we last chatted with the Kanaan sisters, the founders of Ananasa.com, they were struggling with a classic problem that many...

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Startups at Palestine's first accelerator bet on P2P lending, travel, and therapy

“Five years ago there were no startups,” Yousef Ghandour, a tech entrepreneur with 14 years of experience in the field, says of the eco...

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A new Pakistani social coordination app beats Meetup for travellers on the go

If the Smurfs had to plan a picnic, one problem that they could run into is simply deciding which medium to use. Facebook? Whatsapp?...

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Lebanese entrepreneur beats Google Glass with lightweight 3D glasses

Move over, Google Glass. A Lebanese entrepreneur and his cofounder have just debuted a pair of wearable glasses that displays augmented...

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Meet the custom ringtone service from Gaza that's serving the Gulf [Wamda TV]

Gaza’s Sadaf Technology Development has launched Ringak (which means 'your ringtone' in English), a service that offers customized r...

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Can a bootstrapping entrepreneur succeed with an electronics e-commerce store in Lebanon?

“I came back to Lebanon to renew my papers then decided to look for opportunities here,” says serial entrepreneur...

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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...

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BitPay founder Tony Gallipi on Bitcoin's bright future [WamdaTV]

BitPay is an easy-to-use platform enabling internet businesses to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. BitPay provides a plugin and makes it...

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Jordanian custom photo album service eyes Gulf Facebook users, B2B expansion

There’s got to be a story behind a company by the name of Cheezu. “I was watching a Japanese movie,” says Tala Haddadin, Cheezu’s Jordani...

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Can AskNative save Egypt's tourism industry?

AskNative, a tourism service that works like a social network, is up against serious odds in Egypt, where both tourism and e-commerce are...

AskNative Tourism Egypt

ElSherka.com moves business management to the cloud

Rarely do entrepreneurs have all of the necessary skills to run all aspects of their own startups; often they excel in some...

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Enigma thinks big data can change the world

"Dad, the president retweeted my database!" "Well, it’s great that your boss appreciates your work." "No Dad, I’m talking about the Pre...

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Turbines bring winds of change to the West Bank

In 2010, Fadi Quran came back to Palestine during winter break from his senior year at Stanford University, where he was studying Physics...

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Saudi Arabia's Rwaq builds a online courseware platform for the Middle East

It’s not every day that a leading education initiative launches from Saudi Arabia. But one Riyadh-based company is poised to offer the r...

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MySportner founder Kenza Bennani on her greatest challenges, and big plans for the future

The New Work Lab, a Moroccan co-working space based in Casablanca, recently held the first edition of Pitch Lab won by MySportner....

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Bahraini Women's Day is a hit, galvanized by government support

I took a number at my bank and sat down, waiting for the teller. I looked at my ticket: number 193. I looked up at the customer service...

Women Government

Egyptian daily deals site Waffarha confident amidst uncertainty

The recent shutdown of Dare’n’Deal, Egypt’s most popular website for daily deals and group buying, sparked much curiosity about whether the...

E-commerce Daily Deals Egypt

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