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The importance of scale-ups: it's what comes after starting up that matters

The past 15 years have seen a great deal of energy and capital infused into cultivating startups around the world. Policymakers...

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Souq.com dresses Black Friday in white for the MENA

“Our Friday is White,” says the ad campaign for the MENA region’s first Black Friday sales event. Souq.com, one of the region’s bigge...

Souq.com Sales day Black Friday

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The Tabadol Week 2014 by Cambridge University

The University of Cambridge in partnership with Arab Innovation Network is hosting its first Tabadol Week from December 7th till 11th 2014...

amman Education

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Fresh off Stars of Science Season 6, these young innovators are ready to shake up the industry

Stars of Science 6th season finalists during our chat on the morning of the finale. It’s a new beginning for the finalists and winners of S...

Qatar Foundation Stars of Science

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Finding Solutions: Roundtables at MENA ICT workshop 4 scenarios facing entrepreneurs

The Wamda team took over the Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) in Amman last week at the MENA ICT Forum 2014, as it hosted a session of...

Zain Jordan Workshops

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Investing in MENA’s entrepreneurs: What is really needed?

This article has been crossposted with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor. The Middle East and North Africa is in dire need...

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Sudan and Iraq poised to win Collaborative Spaces Challenge

There’s nothing like a healthy competition to get people clicking. Hivos’s Mideast Creatives program and Zoomaal know something about thi...

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Web Summit: worth the trip to Dublin for Arab startups?

Photo Credit: The Web Summit And it’s a wrap! The Web Summit, the biggest event dedicated to startups in Europe, Africa, and the M...

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New Diwanee site seeks to feed growing interest in MENA celebrity news

When Paris-based digital publishing company Webedia acquired a majority stake in Diwanee in March, the Dubai-based Arabic content...

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The Middle East has the highest unemployment rate in the world, what can be done?

David Silverman via Gerry Images. This article is a cross post with The Huffington Post. The biggest threat from and to the Middle East...

Huffington Post Employment

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Next crop of MENA teen entrepreneurs cite Apple, extracurricular activities as key to their ambition

Egypt's Aly Mohamed pictured at a European Union-sponsored contest for young scientists. The old guard had better beware: these...

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How to develop competitive strategy

The Wamda Research Lab’s new report on investment activity in the MENA region highlights several alarming data points. The finding that i...

strategy

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6 regional VCs agree: To support the ecosystem, focus on making it profitable

This is the second of a series of interviews with top investors from the MENA region, in an attempt to shed light on funding opportunities...

Q&A WRL Wamda Research Lab

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Want to push the MENA forward? Work for an entrepreneur

This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Youth entrepreneurship is of particular importance in MENA. Officially, one...

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What do investors in the MENA want from startups?

This is the first of a series of interviews with top investors from the MENA region, in an attempt to shed light on funding opportunities...

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New Wamda Research Lab report sheds light on MENA investment landscape and future opportunities

76% of surveyed MENA startups surveyed have received funding below $500,000 (full report here) Entrepreneurs that have the ambition to...

WRL Wamda Research Lab

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She Entrepreneurs leadership program for women entrepreneurs

She Entrepreneurs is a leadership program for young emerging women social entrepreneurs in the Middle East, North Africa and Sweden. The...

Women

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$40M renewable energy fund to launch in MENA

Large, established global corporations have dominated the renewable energy market in the MENA region. But many others who would...

renewable energy

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How did these three Arab startups take advantage of TechCrunch Disrupt

Getting your product known and used internationally is tough, especially if you’re based in the Arab world. To address this head on, a s...

TechCrunch Disrupt competition Europe

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Mobile dominates even offline shopping in MENA [Report]

Shoppers and retailers in the MENA region have long known that consumers have been spending more and more money online. What is new,...

smartphone penetration Mobile Report

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Former Maktoob exec raises 800K to bring social TV app to MENA

The Los Angeles-based, MENA-focused app Vyu has just closed an $825,000 USD round led by Jordan’s Jabbar Internet Group. The company will u...

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One desperate entrepreneur asks the community: should I give up?

Pondering the future at Mix N' Mentor, Piotr is seated at center. This post was originally published on Medium. My team and I are going...

SwypeOut

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5 entrepreneurs share a time they almost gave up [Wamda TV]

Late last month at Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, we got to play the role of nosy reporters, dragging five mentors away from their sessions and g...

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3 ways bitcoin can make a difference for entrepreneurs in the Arab world

Exchanging money for services with people outside the region is a special hassle for the Arab world. At best, entrepreneurs have to...

Bitcoin Freelancers Outsourcing

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