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Nabbesh Wins du's The Entrepreneur, Looks to Expand Regionally

After two months of tense competition, we now know who took home the 1 million AED cash prize after winning reality TV competition...

Competitions du Investment

Dubai's SwipeZoom Offers Global E-Commerce Payment and Shipment Solution

Amer Qavi was a biomedical engineer designing artificial internal organs before he set up his own medical distribution business. After...

E-commerce Payment Gateways

Planting an Eco-Friendly Coworking Space in Cairo

New coworking space icecairo launched this month as the third installation of icehubs, an international coworking space brand...

Coworking Spaces Egypt Environment

Why Jordan Looks More Like Kenya than Silicon Valley

Sitting at a lively roundtable discussion between young technology entrepreneurs during Amman's MixNMentor at Oasis500, a leading...

Ecosystem Startup Communities

54 Hours Inside Bahrain’s Emerging Tech Startup Scene

Having already touched 200 cities worldwide, the global grassroots Startup Weekend movement recently came to Bahrain’s burgeoning tech s...

Competitions Innovation Startup Weekend

Arabic Web Days Launches to Boost Arabic Web, Supported by Wamda and Partners

Arabic Web Days, a new initiative to support Arabic content creation online, launched today with support from global and regional players...

Arabic Content Digital Media

How a 25-year-old Saudi Entrepreneur is Rethinking the Hijab

Fashion entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing segments in the world of startups. The clothing industry is estimated to equal more...

E-commerce Fashion

Top 10 Tips from Wamda’s Mix n’ Mentor Events in Amman, Beirut & Dubai

During this month’s Wamda Mix N’ Mentor (MnM) across the Arab world, our team traveled to Amman, Beirut, and Dubai to bring stellar men...

Conferences Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour

Jordan's Snax Revolutionizes the Convenience Store

As protesters in Jordan take to the streets to demonstrate against rising gas prices, one convenience store in Jordan is catering to...

Food & Beverage Music Security

Can Startappz Disrupt the Mobile Space in the Arab World?

The idea of being more committed to learning than to a given product seems appropriate for the wave of young entrepreneurs entering the...

Arabic Content Investment Mobile

Can Kuwait Learn from Ghana? Lessons from the Second Startup Q8 Event

The startup scene in Kuwait is gaining momentum. On the 7th of November we had the 2nd StartupQ8 event and it was a lot of fun. Over 50...

Accelerators Advice Ecosystem

Heated Debates and Fresh Startups: What Stood Out at the Arabic Digital Content Conference in Amman

Two weeks ago more than 43 internet and business geeks spoke to a large audience of Arabic content enthusiasts in the Jordanian capital of...

Arabic Content Digital Media Ecosystem

Training the Next Generation of Leaders in Jordan with Photography

While entrepreneurship is one tool for helping young people in Jordan find new opportunities, empowering a generation can begin with...

Social Entrepreneurship

Jordan's Hashdoc Goes for a Global Market

An entrepreneur at heart and techie in action, Tarek Koudsi learned a lot from his family hardware and software business in Jordan before...

Cloud Computing Innovation Oasis500

Tips from Silicon Valley for Entrepreneurs in the Arab World: MAKE Ignition Welcomes 500 Startups

Don’t be an entrepreneur. Keep your day job, spend time with your spouse, play with your children, socialize with your friends, see your p...

Advice Arabic Content Cloud Computing

Workspace Mesaha Supports Community Initiatives in Egypt

These days, Cairo’s coffee places are busy with groups of young men and women gathered around tables, not to eat nor to chatter for fun, b...

Coworking Spaces Egypt

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 11-15

If you were part of Mix N' Mentor Amman or Beirut last week, you know that the events hosted a number of enriching conversations between...

Advice Animation CoE Cards

Think of the People, Not the Money [Pic of the Week]

During episode two of Wamda's Mix N' Mentor in Beirut last Saturday, November 10th, one word kept coming up at the discussion tables...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

How to Hire at a Software Startup as You Scale

Despite the buzz of excitement around entrepreneurship in Pakistan, it is not always easy to entice the brightest young engineers to work...

Advice Programme Scaling

Social Media to the Rescue: Egypt's Splinter Makes Résumés Obsolete

“A year and a half ago my brother asked me to design and update his CV and I remember telling him, this is the social era man, I'm sure we w...

Digital Marketing Egypt Innovation

Building a 2020 Vision of Entrepreneurship in Lebanon: Part 2

As I discussed in my last post, building an entrepreneurship ecosystem that consistently empowers small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs)...

Accelerators Advice Ecosystem

SocialWire Launches Optimized Ads for Facebook, Announces $2m in Investment

Online advertising has yet to be proven very effective. Yet SocialWire, a company started in Istanbul by a Turkish entrepreneur, is out to...

Digital Advertising Advertising Social Networks

PayPal Launches Middle East Operations with Aramex Partnership

PayPal, which is already an active payment platform in the region, has announced the official launch of its operations in the Middle East...

Payment Gateways E-commerce Delivery

Wamda and Endeavor Partner to Support Entrepreneurs Globally

Wamda has been busy supporting entrepreneurs on all fronts this fall. Not only has Wamda Capital announced ten investments this year, but...

Endeavor

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