Wamda

15 Tips For Pitching to Investors from Culture Shift in Cairo

Karen McGregor, a social investor from the Scottish investment firm FirstPort, gave a workshop during the Culture Shift event about how to...

Angel Investment Investment Negotiation

tasmeemME Continues Palestinian Museum Logo Design Competition

Update: the deadline has now been extended to May 31st! Submit now. It’s probably been a minute since you’ve heard from creative community ...

Design Digital Media

Meet the Teams that Pitched at Cairo Culture Shift

The British Council Culture Shift event in Cairo this month brought together an interesting mix of teams and ideas: Competing ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

Creating a Culture Shift in Cairo

Fill a room with equal numbers of people from the arts, software developers, NGO volunteers, and business professionals. Now sprinkle some ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

Egyptian Company KarmSolar Wins HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament 2021

The HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament, held this past Monday and Tuesday in Dubai, challenged entrepreneurs to produce innovative...

Green Energy Innovation Environment

Step Mini-Conference Draws Dubai Entrepreneurs to Discuss Creativity and Innovation

On Friday April 6th artists, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered for the STEP Mini-Conference, a forum for ideas and inspiration...

Coworking Spaces Startup Communities

Debate Me: Egypt's Naqeshny Challenges You to a War of Words

Naqeshny, a new debating social network, challenges its participants to engage on issues, rather than being dragged into exchanges based on...

KAUST Announces Startup Showcase Winners

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has announced the two winners in its second round of VentureLab, a startup...

Competitions Mobile Apps Trends

M&A's Overlooked Pitfall: The False Negative

Plenty of merger deals should never happen: Buyers are too often attracted to "false positives" in targets that are overvalued. Less...

Acquisitions

MIT Announces 14 Finalists in Arab Business Plan Competition

Of the 50 teams that the MIT Enterprise Forum accepted into the semifinal round of the Arab Business Plan Competition, the...

MIT MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Global

7 people you cannot afford NOT to have on your startup team

Investors are lined up, the website is done, glossy promotional material with smiling faces is all set, your core team is pumped, and you...

Programme Job Recruitment Team

Differentiating a Daily Deals Site in Dubai: Pradeep Menon of DealGobbler

Pradeep Menon, part investor and part entrepreneur, is the founder of Deal Gobbler, a Dubai-based daily deal website. Menon is also among...

Daily Deals Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce

Announcing the First Batch of Speakers at CoE E-Commerce

Here's a tease of what's to come at CoE E-Commerce. Our first batch of speakers include the following industry experts. Stay tuned for the...

E-commerce CoE E-Commerce COE

You Think Like An Entrepreneur If... [Pic of the Week]

While entrepreneurship is the science of forming and growing a business, the mindset associated with it has come to signify much more, a...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Demystifying E-Commerce: How to Create Discounts by Customer Segment

This series by Mohannad Ghashim of ShopGo.me is part of our Demystifying E-Commerce series. It will explore various technical issues...

E-commerce Demystifying E-Commerce

Woopra's New Interface Assists Quick Decision-Making

Web analytics platform Woopra, which launched a sleek iPhone and iPad interface this fall, has updated their web app dashboard as well,...

Analytics

Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Shows Growth at Second Demo Day

The great and the good of Egypt’s entrepreneurial ecosystem gathered for the showcase of Flat6Labs’ latest clutch of ready-to-grow acc...

Accelerators Angel Investment Ecosystem

At Dubai Forum, Arab Female Entrepreneurs Are Urged to Break from Traditional Choices

There are a number of cultural challenges facing women in the Middle East who want to become entrepreneurs, but those belonging to the...

Conferences

Why Toolkits Are Essential for Innovation and Education

So how do you fit a cube-shaped canister into a cylindrical hole using only Moon rock plastic bags, cardboard, suit hoses, and...

Education Innovation

Building a Social Network for Football Fans in the Arab World: Footballize

Ten days ago, as Christian Ronaldo scored the winning goal for Real Madrid in a match that served archrival Barcelona its first loss...

Sprowd: Crowdfunding for Startups Around the Globe

The idea is simple: if you have a great idea for a business, why should you wait for a VC to take a leap of faith to invest in you? Why not...

Crowdfunding Investment

Student-Powered Startup Education in Egypt

What do cupcakes, touch technology, and venture capitalists have in common? In truth not much, unless we’re about talking s...

Conferences

Every Problem is An Opportunity [Pic of the Week]

This week as we open registration for upcoming event CoE E-Commerce, this piece of advice seems especially relevant. The issues that most ...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Microsoft Imagine Cup UAE Announces Winner

Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a competition inviting software developers around the world to "imagine a world where technology helps solve the...

Competitions Environment Mobile Apps

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