Regional Still fighting for the funding, hot topic at Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor in Dubai On December 13 Wamda hosted it’s final Mix N’ Mentor of 2014 at the in5 Innovation Hub in Dubai. Hosting some of the city’s most active ent... Wamda • 23 December, 2014 mix n mentor dubai investement Dubai
Saudi Arabia The quick rise of online video content in Saudi Arabia This post was originally published on firnas.org Making the most of the access now had to basic filming equipment, such as... Ahmed Gabr • 22 December, 2014 online video content Saudi Arabia YouTube
Libya Two Maghrebi women named new Ashoka Fellows The Voice of Libyan Women's Alaa Murabit addresses a crowd. Ashoka Arab World, an organization dedicated to enabling social... Wamda • 22 December, 2014 libya ashoka tunisia
Regional 7 notable investments and acquisitions of 2014 There’s nothing quite like a satisfying investment or acquisition to get the entrepreneurial juices flowing. Throughout 2014, Wamda r... Lucy Knight • 22 December, 2014 Roundup Acquisitions Investment
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... Aline Mayard • 21 December, 2014 MNF Education Maroc Numeric Fund
Lebanon Lebanese entrepreneurs work to grow new talent in Tripoli Recently, while walking up and down the stairways of heaven in one of the holiest places in Lebanon - The Qadisha Valley - I had the chance... Reine Farhat • 21 December, 2014 Tripoli lebanon Training
Global 4 trends from LeWeb that could make waves in the Arab world in 2015 The end of the year is always an interesting time. Some like to go back on what happened in the year gone by, while others try to predict... Aline Mayard • 21 December, 2014 crowd economy Meditation Wearable devices
Egypt Egypt ed-tech firm eyes home turf for expansion [Wamda TV] One of Egypt’s earliest technology companies is beginning to venture into its local education market, having already conquered the... Rachel Williamson • 18 December, 2014 itworx microsoft EdTech
U.A.E Dubai entrepreneurs pick VC brains with these 6 questions Last Saturday, Wamda closed out yet another fruitful Mix N’ Mentor Roadshow. This year’s last event took place at the... Maya Rahal • 18 December, 2014 insights mix n mentor dubai fundraising
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... Aline Mayard • 18 December, 2014 Event Planning Mentorship
Jordan Founding a second company: risk or investment? Four years after launching Sitat Byoot, the female focused e-commerce site, CEO Saeed Omar is about to embark on a new journey in the... Tala El Issa • 17 December, 2014 Sitat Byoot Startup Jo Jordan
Regional 4 promising pivots by MENA startups in 2014 Loay Malahmeh of 3Dmena presents his company to King Hussein and Queen Rania of Jordan. In 1892, William Wrigley Jr., who had recently... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 17 December, 2014 Pivot Lean Methodology
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... Aline Mayard • 17 December, 2014 CMI
Regional 5 ways to build your brand strategy on social networks Launched earlier this year, Brand US Social (BUS) has already made quite an impact on the social and digital media scene. A London... Pamela Kesrouani • 16 December, 2014 strategy Branding Social Media
Global What an entrepreneurship ecosystem actually is This article is a crosspost with Harvard Business Review Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic... Daniel Isenberg • 16 December, 2014 Ecosystem
Saudi Arabia How one tweet inspired one man's mango selling website This article was posted originally on Firnas.org. On April 27th 2012 Abdul Rahman Sahili read a tweet from a man in the coastal... Reine Farhat • 15 December, 2014 food Mango Jazaan ksa
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