Wamda

Entrepreneurs as Nation Builders: Pioneers in Pakistan

"Your problem is solved." With those words, Sir Adamjee Dawood, one of Pakistan’s greatest entrepreneurs, saved the country from f...

Ecosystem

Moroccan Site Asnad Offers Online Market for Arabic Digital Content

Those looking to become creative entrepreneurs have a new avenue for monetizing their products, with the launch of e-commerce...

E-commerce

Maghreb Startup Initiative Launches Competition for North African Entrepreneurs

North African entrepreneurs, get your ideas ready: The Maghreb Startup Initiative is now live. Founded as a partnership between the...

Accelerators Competitions

Speed Mentoring in Cairo: A Step Towards a Mentorship Framework?

Finding a business mentor is a lot like finding a date. Physical attractiveness is important for dates, professional attractiveness for...

Conferences

Striving for Funding: Confessions from Dubai's CareZone

Editor’s note (NC): Sometimes a good idea does not find funding in an appropriate time frame. It could be a failure of execution, o...

Investment

Mowgli Partners with Enterprise Qatar, Enters the Gulf

U.K.-based mentoring platform Mowgli Foundation has announced a new partnership with small and medium enterprise support organization...

Mentorship

Beirut's The Dream Matcher Demonstrates the Value of a Niche Social Network

I was recently invited to a second dream matching event in Beirut by The Dream Matcher, an ambitious project that aims to improve the p...

Social Networks

6 Leadership Lessons for Entrepreneurs from Paul Polman of Unilever

Will it be awfully clichéd if I start this post with a done-to-death movie dialogue? I guess it would be but I can’t think of a better st...

Beyond Recycling: Going Green in Saudi Arabia

Ask most people in Saudi Arabia what they know about going green and the first thing they say is “recycling." There seems to be a lot of b...

Environment

Facebook Use in the Arab World in 2012

Just in time for Facebook's IPO tomorrow, @Shusmo has created an infographic detailing data from the Dubai School of Government's Arab...

Trends

Get Ready for CoE E-Commerce: Speakers and Program Announced

Get ready for CoE E-Commerce. Here's the breakdown: the first day will have a fully attendee-driven agenda. You'll get the chance to...

CoE E-Commerce COE

Wharton's First Innovation Tournament in the Middle East: A Competition of Ideas, and a Comparison of Challenges

[Meet all the Karmsolar team in a Wamda recorded quick interview, and learn more about the finalists here] Ahmed Zahran couldn't have been...

Environment

Turkish Gaming Entrepreneur Pivots into Mobile in MENA, Launching Bhalamir

The co-creator of one of Turkey's biggest web gaming platforms, Sanalika, has now launched a demo of his first iOS mobile game, Bhalamir,...

Gaming

Meet the Final 5 Teams in AUC's The Hit

80 teams entered AUC’s product innovation competition The Hit, but only 5 made it to the final stage. The 5 teams confirmed they will ...

Innovation

The Final Showdown at AUC's Product Innovation TV Show The Hit

Hundreds of rowdy AUC undergrads cheered on as the MC presented the teams. There was cheering, a buzzing atmosphere, and plenty of...

Education Startup Communities Competitions

Demystifying E-Commerce: 12 Questions Every E-Commerce Startup Should Answer

This piece is part of our Demystifying E-Commerce Series, which addresses the challenges of setting up and growing an e-commerce company in...

Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce

New VC Sinbad Ventures to Focus on Early Stage Global Web and Mobile Startups

Ahmad Takatkah, the former Head of Investments for N2V, has announced the launch of new venture capital fund Sinbad Ventures, which will...

Accelerators Investment

Google's Ebda2 Competition in Egypt Ends with Controversy

“The baby has a face only their mother could love,” some say. After waiting expectantly for about 9 months, witnessing the labor pains, loo...

Competitions Google Mentorship

Moroccan Entrepreneur Finds Opportunity in Web Hosting

Moroccan internet service Genious Communications has relaunched this week, bringing new cloud-based services to Morocco, and soon, the Arab...

Maroc Annonces: Pioneering Online Classified Ads in Morocco

Created 12 years ago, by founder Tadjne Filali, Maroc Annonces was the first online classified ads company in Morocco. Once a pioneer and...

E-commerce

How to Design Better Customer Experience by Acting

Has designing your business service been entertaining? I was introduced to a quick, fun and effective method during Sarah Drummond’s s...

Education Entertainment Innovation

Arabic Medical Portal AlTibbi Launches Breakthrough Symptom Checker and Social Network

Arabic medical portal Altibbi.com has just launched two major improvements to its comprehensive diagnosis platform: the first Arab...

Social Media Endeavor Medical

Define What You Want in Life [Pic of the Week]

Defining what you want in life and specifying your dreams might just make it easier for you to manifest them. Not because new age gurus say...

CoE Cards

4 Ways to Create a Culture of Observation at Your Startup

Did you know that marketing directors at Google use physics to explain the fundamental theories of branding? That astronomers use software...

Innovation

Thought Leadership

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