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Maghreb

Meet the entrepreneur who created Algeria's online advertising sector

Few countries can boast that their number of internet users has gone from 1.5 million to 15 million in eight years, that they reached...

algeria Digital Advertising

Maghreb

Entrepreneurs, start your engines: the Moroccan taxi app race is ready to begin

The news was all over the Moroccan web: Uber is looking for a community manager for Casablanca. Is the famous taxi service really...

iTaxi Taxiii taxi service

Maghreb

Back on the Ampion Venture Bus: 5 days across Tunisia

As part of its motorized adventures through Africa the Ampion Venture Bus made its way to North Africa. After having travelled through...

Startup System Tunisia Tunis Ampion

Maghreb

VC, angels, or pre-sells: What’s the best funding option for Maghrebi startups? [WamdaTV]

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Réseau Entreprendre Yunus Social Business Microsoft Innovation Center

Maghreb

'We need to learn to learn from failure,' says Morocco Technopark's Omar Balafrej

It’s been seven years now that Omar Balafrej has been running Technopark, and over that period, he has seen his share of M...

morocco Funding Failure

Maghreb

Industry focus key to a successful incubator, says Tunisian expert Leila Charfi

If there’s one person that knows the incubators/accelerators sector in Maghreb, it’s Leila Charfi. The Tunisian, who describes herself as “...

Yunus Social Business incubators tunisia

Maghreb

What makes a good team? 5 Maghrebi experts weigh in [WamdaTV]

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Maghreb Team building Expert Advice

Maghreb

Will 2015 be the year of the Maghrebi startup? 6 experts share their thoughts [Wamda TV]

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Yunus Social Business Microsoft Innovation Center MCISE

Maghreb

Women SenseTour: 5 months, 5 countries, 25 changemakers

Sarah Zouak, 25, talks about her project, the Women SenseTour in Muslim Countries, with an air of normalcy. However, the tour...

turkey iran morocco

Maghreb

If hackers and makers in Morocco mingled, they could all be winners

Like most Maghreb and Middle East countries, Moroccan entrepreneurs often refuse to collaborate and to share knowledge with one another....

collaborative communities makers Maghreb

Maghreb

What have 8 of Morocco’s support organizations for tech entrepreneurship achieved?

Many startups are now getting support in Morocco either at the seed or growth stage, but support programs and organizations are too few,...

Support OCP Maroc Numeric Fund

Maghreb

Morocco's Education Media Company raises $280,000 on the strength of an unusual story

The 9rayti team. Adam Bouhadma is only 24, and has just raised 2.5 million Moroccan dirhams ($280,000) for his company Education...

MNF Education Maroc Numeric Fund

Maghreb

Where does Azur Systems' success come from?

Walid El Alaoui Mrani has always had a clear vision of what he wants to do. Once graduated from engineering school, the young Moroccan...

Event Planning Mentorship

Maghreb

Morocco's CMI responds to 5 complaints from entrepreneurs

Since we published the testimonial piece of Greendizer co-founder Mohamed Attahri, where he described his less than...

CMI

Maghreb

Asma Mansour: Tunisia's social entrepreneurship pioneer

For some, entrepreneurship starts as an epiphany, and quickly becomes an addiction. Asma Mansour is one of them. The founder of the...

tunisian center for entrepreneurship asma mansour Social Entrepreneurship

Maghreb

What does the future hold for the Tunisian coworking scene? Cogite's Rym Baouendi weighs in

Two months ago, Cogite blew out its first candle, celebrating its one-year anniversary. It’s hard to believe it has already been a year s...

Cogite tunisia Coworking Spaces

Maghreb

Tunisian startup begins manufacturing innovative wind turbine; announces Microsoft partnership

Anyone who has had the chance to speak to Anis Aouini and Hassine Labaïed, the cofounders of Tunisia’s Saphon Energy, knows that ...

Saphon green tech Green Energy

Maghreb

Is the CMI broken? One (disgruntled) entrepreneur weighs in

Editor's Note: We’ve said it before at Wamda: the Moroccan Center for Innovation doesn’t have such a good reputation among Moroccan ent...

CMI morocco

Maghreb

Moroccan startups are finally gaining exposure, although GES had little to do with it

This year’s the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) took place in Marrakech under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, f...

GES event morocco

Maghreb

Africa scores a big win at GIST Tech-I competition 2014

This year’s Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Tech-I competition in Marrakech was a major win for Africa. Among the t...

tech-i competition morocco GIST

Maghreb

The Maghreb Digital Learning and Education Innovation Conference

The British Council, Tunisia is organizing The Maghreb Digital Learning and Education Innovation Conference that will explore the broader...

tunisia E-Learning

Maghreb

Tunisian startups get a crash course in storytelling at Hivos event

In October, 12 teams of one to three Tunisians, under 35, were invited to Tunis’ coworking space Cogite to compete during D...

Mideast Creatives tunisia Cogite

Maghreb

The Algerian entrepreneurship awakening is imminent, says Toufik Lerari

To those who say Algeria isn’t doing well, Toufik Lerari says: “You’re completely wrong.” The 37-year-old Algerian success story can back i...

Fikra Allégorie Algérie

Maghreb

Startech Unconference, Tunisia

What Prevents Tunisia From Generating IT Succes Stories ? This is the question Tunisian event organizer agency MAZAM, and American...

Thought Leadership

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