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Meet the Teams from Startup Weekend Alexandria

Who were the teams that pitched and won at Startup Weekend Alexandria? See the infographic by the Egypreneur Information Portal for...

Building Quiet Optimism at the Launch of the 5th MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

As the 5th round of the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition launched this past Thursday on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, it set...

GIST Launches Competition to Fund Societal Change

Do you have an idea whose time has come? If so, it’s now even easier to get funding this fall. GIST, the Global Innovation through Science a...

The Decline of Social Media Aggregators: Why Power.com Failed

The last five years have witnessed a huge surge in social media sites and users, especially with the advent of Facebook and Twitter. Users...

7 Tips for Being Agile

Do you want to recruit 40 employees, attract more than 800 customers, get financed within months, have social media buzzing about your...

Rumors and Face-offs at the Internet Show Middle East

The Internet Show Middle East held its second annual event in Abu Dhabi this past week in what is one of a number of events and...

How to Conquer Procrastination

To many, the ability to multitask is a gift bestowed upon humans who tend to work on multiple projects in parallel, and to others it’s a m...

Volunteer Portal Nakhweh Launches New Platform for Startups

Today, it’s even easier to get free labor at your startup. Nakhweh, a Jordanian volunteer-matching portal, just launched a new service a...

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango: The New Must-Have OS for Social Media Lovers?

Last week I was invited by Microsoft to a social media gathering to discuss Microsoft’s multichannel marketing strategy in the region and h...

Five Websites Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From

When it comes to new information, the internet is inconceivably large. We can spend endless hours surfing the net, and still not reach the...

Blazing a Trail for Green Travel in Arabia: Egypt’s Wild Guanabana

As the tourism industry takes a huge hit in post-revolution Egypt, now losing an estimated $1 billion a month, according to the Egyptian...

Top 10 Accelerators in the Middle East and North Africa

So you’ve written a quick pitch of your idea, sketched out your market, come up with some monetization options, taken stock of y...

Accelerators

Three Traits that Set the Best Entrepreneurs Apart, from Saad Khan

Saad Khan, venture capitalist and thought leader in the fields of technology, design and media, spoke recently at Startup Weekend...

How to Start a Business: Five Tips from Rahim Fazal

Rahim Fazal recently spoke at Startup Weekend Alexandria about starting his first company, with his cousin when he was 16. He sold it a...

A Sneak Peek at Facebook Timeline

Facebook users might experienced small changes to their profile during the past month, and not thought much of it. But these changes are...

A New Generation Pitches for Social Change at Startup Weekend Alexandria

Egypt’s second Startup Weekend kicked off this past weekend in Alexandria, Egypt’s second-largest city. Following the Cairo event earlier th...

Startup Weekend

Failure- What is it Good For?

Failure is perhaps the most important teacher for any entrepreneur. Although failure is often treated as a taboo in school and university,...

What Is User Experience Design?

This is my first post in a series in which I will tackle the ins and outs of User Experience Design, offering a crash course in...

User Experience Design

The First Startup Incubator Launches in Tunisia

In post-revolutionary spirit, Tunisian entrepreneurs Mondher Khanfir and Mehdi Khemiri just launched the first private business incubator...

Five Apps that Will Make Your (Business) Life Easier

Just because your business is small doesn’t mean you should suffer by getting overwhelmed by organizational tasks. Google Apps is an e...

A Call to Social Entrepreneurship in Lebanon

As the recent TEDxBeirut event aimed to bring us ‘From Limitation to Inspiration,’ it followed the TED mandate to spread ideas that would in...

How to Win the MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

This Thursday, the MIT Enterprise Forum is launching the 5th round of its yearly Arab Business Plan Competition, at the Radisson Blu Hotel...

MIT MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Animating the Emirati Dream at CoE Animate 11

Amidst the angular but cozy sofas and wooden tables of The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, a range of animators with different agendas,...

Building Optimism in North Africa: Abraaj’s Amundi Acquisition

In North Africa, there’s more reason for optimism among the entrepreneurship community today. Abraaj Capital’s recent acquisition of the Nor...

Thought Leadership

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