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Save Paper at Your Startup, Part 1: Business Cards

This series of articles provides advice on how to cut down on the use of paper in the modern workplace. In startup working environments,...

Environment Startup Communities Technology

Could an Egyptian Crowdsourced Review Site Be the Next Big Middle East Success Story?

I may have seen the "next big thing," i.e. the next startup with the potential to be a Twitter or an Instagram. To be regionally precise I...

Egypt Invention Ratings Sites

A Look at E-Commerce in India: How MartJack Helped Offline Retailers Go Online

When Indian software company eReasoning built MartJack in 2007, “most offline retailers in India were not tech-savvy,” says founder Abhay De...

E-commerce

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 23-27

In our last wrap-up for the year, we share with you posts highlighting advice from some of the region's leading experts, as well as tips on...

Loyalty Programs Weekly Wrap-Up

Have Fun: Short Term is Short Term [Pic of the Week]

For some this is the end of a bad year, maybe their worst year so far. Others could be wishing 2013 to be as good as 2012. You might be in...

Advice CoE Cards Pic of the Week

How to Create an Efficient Virtual Team Office: Hsoub's Solution

Is it necessary to have a team working in one office in order to coordinate effectively? If I were writing this article 10 years ago, I...

Advice Ideas Social Networks

Do You Want To Write on Wamda? Publish A Story and Win a Free WamdaCard Subscription

Do you love blogging? Have you been waiting for the right opportunity to go public with those notes piling up in Word files on your...

Digital Media Media

Music Marketing Platform Helps Artists Go Viral in the Arab World

Today, viral YouTube videos propel artists to fame overnight, creating a completely new set of rules for music promotion. This is where the...

Entertainment Music Social Media

First Moroccan Instameet Unites Instagram Users

About a month ago on November 25th, the first meeting for local Instagrammers was held in Morocco, uniting users of the free photo-sharing...

Social Networks Social Media Ecosystem

Meet the Moroccan Winners of the Maghreb Startup Initiative

After a lengthy competition beginning this May, the Maghreb Startup Initiative 2012 announced its Moroccan winners during an awards...

Competitions

5 Applications that Help You Organize Daily Tasks

Smartphones nowadays have become our daily companions that stick with us wherever we go. They help us organize daily tasks and...

Reviews Technology Mobile

Tunisian Entrepreneurs Reveal Post-Revolution Challenges at Wamda Tunis Meetup

In partnership with the Global Shapers Tunis Hub, Wamda made its debut in Tunis a couple of weeks ago by organizing a meet and greet with...

Advice Ecosystem

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 16-20

This has been a week of looking back and planning ahead. What are you excited about for next year? What are the most valuable experiences...

Arabic Content CoE Cards Conferences

Though Painful, Failure is Redeemable [Pic of the Week]

Failure is not the end of the world. More often than not it marks the beginning of something new, affording entrepreneurs a...

Failure CoE Cards Pic of the Week

How to contribute to Wamda's Community Blog

Starting today, the Wamda community can share their own news, thoughts, experience or even tips and tricks from their entrepreneurial...

Wamda News Social Networks Digital Media

Favorite Stories of 2012 from Wamda’s Editorial Team

As the year comes to a close, we're looking back at the startup news we’ve covered in 2012. It's been a busy year with more startup news t...

Ecosystem Innovation Top Lists

When is the Right Time to Quit Your Job? [Poll Results]

Following our recent Facebook poll for the Wamda community, we have compiled the answers to give a short readout on what Wamda’s readers a...

Facebook Social Media Social Networks

Palestinian SMS Platform Souktel Raises $1 Million from Sadara Ventures

Souktel, one of the fastest growing startups in Palestine today, is set to enter a new era with a round of $1 million in investment from...

Investment Mobile Mobile Apps

Entej Works to Connect Egypt's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

What do you do when you come up with a great project idea? Of course, you start looking for partners and team members, probably through...

Ecosystem Egypt Job Recruitment

Egypt's Startup Reactor Powers Up its First Acceleration Cycle

The Innoventures’ Startup Reactor (SR) accelerator launched recently, with a pitching session at the luxury Kempinski hotel by the Nile. O...

Accelerators Angel Investment Ecosystem

Mallna Makes Arab E-Commerce More Social, Adds Gamification

While only 43% of internet users in the Middle East and North Africa have shopped online, according to research by OneCard, Jordanian site...

E-commerce Social Media

How to Ask Your Users for Feedback

No matter which kind of venture you choose to build and invest your time and skills in, there is no doubt that it’s in your best interest t...

Advice

Jordan

Jordan's Quirkat releases first game from the Arab World for PlayStation Mobile

Alongside PlayStation’s recent launch of PlayStation Mobile (PSM), Jordanian gaming startup Quirkat recently released a new game,...

Quirkat

Egypt's Angels Get Serious: Behind the Scenes at a Cairo Angels Pitch Event

The Cairo Angels (CA) business angel group has been going for about a year now, and I was happy to attend their latest regular pitch...

Angel Investment Egypt

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