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... Fernande van Tets • 10 May, 2012
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... Nina Curley • 10 May, 2012 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... Knowledge @Wharton • 10 May, 2012 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... Nina Curley • 09 May, 2012 MIT MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? [Wamda TV] This video was originally published on the BabsonMedia YouTube channel on March 29, 2012. "Can entrepreneurship be taught?" an interviewer... Daniel Isenberg • 09 May, 2012
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... Bushra Azhar • 09 May, 2012 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... Mo Ali Yusuf • 08 May, 2012 Daily Deals Demystifying E-Commerce E-commerce
Entrepreneur of the Week: Saudi Entrepreneur Deem Al-Bassam Pivots from Failure into Success [Wamda TV] [This video is no longer available.] Saudi entrepreneur Deem Al-Bassam speaks to Wamda from her residence in Dubai, describing what went... Nina Curley • 08 May, 2012 Failure Entrepreneur of the Week Food & Beverage
Building Interactive Stories in Arabic for Children on Sacha Books [Wamda TV] Co-founder Samer Adel Youssef of Egyptian startup Sacha Books, presenting at Google's startup competition in Cairo, Ebda2, describes how he ... Omar Aysha • 08 May, 2012 Animation Arabic Content Competitions
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... Wamda • 07 May, 2012 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... Wamda • 07 May, 2012 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... Mohanad Ghashim • 07 May, 2012 E-commerce Demystifying E-Commerce
A Group Storytelling Site Inspired by the Egyptian Revolution: Group Stre.am [Wamda TV] Yasmin Alayat, co-founder of Group Stre.am, describes how she and her team built the group storytelling platform to allow groups to tell... Omar Aysha • 07 May, 2012 Media Social Media
A Citizen Journalism Publishing Platform for the Arab World: CitJo [Wamda TV] At Google's Ebda2 Competition, Sarah Wali and Mahamad El Tanahy of citizen journalism platform CitJo explain how they built the platform in... Omar Aysha • 06 May, 2012 Entertainment Media
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,... Nina Curley • 06 May, 2012 Analytics
Building Customized Superheros for Kids: Egyptian Platform CartoonHero [Wamda TV] At Google's Ebda2 competition in Cairo, Mohamed Tarek of CartoonHero explains how his software works to create customized 3D models of... Omar Aysha • 06 May, 2012 Animation Competitions Google