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Can Wrapp’s success be replicated in the Middle East? Just Gift It expands social gifting

If you’re hoping to launch a startup that will grow quickly, Sweden’s Wrapp is one to look to. After launching in Sweden in November 2011, ...

Social Gifting E-commerce

6 tips from a French entrepreneur for launching in the Arab world

This piece is part of a new series on expat entrepreneurs. We've recently discussed how some European entrepreneurs have moved...

Retail Expatriate entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur launches magazine, radio show for Egypt's startups

As Egypt’s startup community continues to grow, coverage of entrepreneurship here has remained the domain of Western or more regional A...

Egypt Media Digital Media

How the founder of Dubai's propertyfinder.ae wrestled his company back from NewsCorp

Last week, propertyfinder.ae solidified its position as a startup to watch, closing a round of series A funding led by BECO Capital...

BECO Capital Venture Capital Real Estate

Why we moved our startup to Dubai

Two months ago I moved our startup from Kuwait to Dubai (we also have another office in Malaga, Spain which is still running). But making...

Relocating Dubai Scaling

Why Ahmed Nassef left Yahoo: A look at Telfez, his new social TV startup

Ahmed Nassef, one of the Middle East’s early internet pioneers, announced last month that he has left his role as Yahoo! VP and managing d...

Social TV Departures SmartTV

Challenges to scaling in Dubai: A look at Wild Peeta [case study]

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

Scaling Food & Beverage

Wizards founder builds new mobile gaming company at 500 Startups in Silicon Valley

In an effort to keep their gaming startup, Wizards Productions, afloat, founders Hussam Hammo and Sohaib Thiab pivoted into mobile,...

Incubator Failure Mobile Gaming

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Zoomaal launches first crowdfunding platform for the Arab world

The Middle East’s newest crowdfunding platform, Zoomaal, launched today, offering entrepreneurs, artists, and socially-minded doers the c...

abdallah absi Crowdfunding zoomal

Can this Facebook clone become the biggest social network in Yemen?

Could the Arab world's next social network come from... Yemen? Why invent the wheel, the cofounders argue. “We created a design very s...

Social Networks Facebook Social Media

Kuwaiti entrepreneur builds sports apparel startup in Britain

Who would have thought a British-educated dentist from Kuwait would open his own cheerleading apparel design startup? It...

Apparel Sports Innovation

It's not easy being the Amazon of Morocco

With Livremoi (a play on words between “books & I” and “ship me”), Caroline Dalimier and Mathieu Malan want to be the Amazon of Morocco...

E-commerce

Saudi entrepreneur showcases Silicon Valley startups in Arabic web series

“It’s important for Arab entrepreneurs to be familiar with the details on how giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter originally started o...

silicon valley YouTube Digital Media

Defining social entrepreneurship: Alashanek ya Balady in Egypt [Case Study]

Continuing our new case study series, in partnership with the El Khazindar Business Research and Case Center (KCC) at the American U...

Social Entrepreneurship

Will a new startup accelerator focused on supply chain and logistics take off in Dubai?

These days, it seems incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere in the Arab world, especially in the UAE. One of the latest...

Logistics Supply chain Incubator

AUC launches new incubator for startups across Egypt

“In Egypt, we need to create 800,000 jobs every year, but you have to start somewhere,” says Dr. Sherif Kamel, Dean of the American Uni...

Incubator Egypt Accelerators

Sketch In Motion Founders Launch BeeLabs to Build Educational Apps for Kids

After spending almost ten years producing interactive media and cartoon animation for television and the web,...

Mobile Gaming Arabic Content Education

Growing a hybrid online-offline business: Duplays from Dubai [Case Study]

Wamda is announcing the launch of a new case study series, in partnership with the El Khazindar Business Research and Case Center (KCC) at...

Dubai Sports

Scaling a lean startup in Iraq: how Easy Bites took Erbil by storm

Restaurants and fast food outlets are booming in Kurdistan. According to one official in Erbil, Kurdistan’s capital now boasts close to 5...

Addressing Online delivery Scaling

How to run a crowdfunding campaign: 10 Tips from entrepreneurs who succeeded and failed

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