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4 questions to ask while building your startup

Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave u...

Tips Advice Failure

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Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey's 15 Do's and Don’ts for achieving success

A recent New Yorker profile called Jack Dorsey "more than a lucky man" as it chronicled his rise to success as one of...

Lists Advice

10 of Reid Hoffman's most valuable tips from LinkedIn's Series B pitch deck

As part of Greylock Partners’s mandate to “always help entrepreneurs,” Reid Hoffman has published LinkedIn’s slide deck from its Seri...

Expert Advice Advice

5 qualities to look for in a co-founder

There are many reasons why people search for partners with whom to found a business. Sometimes it’s because of the need for essential s...

Cofounder Team building Advice

Guy Kawasaki’s top 11 mistakes made by entrepreneurs [Video]

As one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh computer in 1984, Guy Kawasaki has since started his own...

Venture Capital Expert Advice Tips

Vivek Wadwha: what Silicon Valley can and can't teach emerging markets

A recent discussion between Vivek Wadwha, Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University, and Dick Costolo, CEO of...

Diversity Expert Advice Advice

4 incubators and accelerators that can help startups set up in Dubai

This is the third and final post in this mini-series about moving your startup to Dubai. Below, I explore the incubators and accelerators...

Incubator Advice Accelerators

How to identify a startup opportunity

In light of the exponential growth that the Arab world has witnessed over the last few years – the startup ecosystem grew from $10 million ...

Advice

Learning how to focus your startup with the Mini Entrepreneur

When trying to build you startup, it’s easy to get distracted by popular trends or a project with quick returns. But if they’re outside you...

Mini Entrepreneur Advice

6 lessons learned from the closure of a real estate startup in Lebanon

Bootstrapping a startup in the Arab world, let alone Lebanon, is anything but easy. And sometimes, despite launching with the support of an...

Mapping Real Estate Advice

How to teach the Arts: The Discipline of a Free Mind

In the first part of this series we challenged the popular image of the tormented artist and offered an alternative perspective—that of t...

Art Advice Education

Startup funding: How to fuel your car [Infographic]

This past week, our Wamda Community member Osama Natto designed and posted his own infographic on his own profile, using the metaphor of a...

Funding Scaling Advice

12 productive ways to take a break at work

Whether writing a long report, entering hundreds of names into a database, or dealing with a tough client, sometimes it’s nice to take a f...

Tips Advice

15 tools that the most successful entrepreneurs use [Infographic]

For today’s entrepreneurs, finding the right management and marketing tools can be just as important as hiring the right team member. In t...

Tips Advice Infographic

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How to be a mompreneur: 7 tips for building a strong support system

In our "Mompreneur series," I will be sharing experiences, tips and advice for being an effective mother and entrepreneur in the...

mompreneur Tips Advice

3 simple ways to screw up your startup

I was recently asked to give a talk at Lamba Labs on three ways to screw up your startup. But which three to choose? Note: Lamba...

Expert Advice Advice Mentorship

What’s the biggest career mistake you would gladly make again? 11 leading entrepreneurs tell us.

“Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom." -William Jordan In career, and in life, we make mistakes. You can’t prevent them and avoiding ...

Mistakes Leadership Advice

7 lessons I learned during my journey as an 'Entrepreneur Wannabe'

Even though I’ve been on an entrepreneurship journey for more than four years, I still consider myself an “entrepreneur wannabe,” because ...

Advice Failure

Is multitasking actually counterproductive?

Most employees are on the lookout for ways to achieve multiple goals simultaneously. In fact, many non-multitaskers perceive themselves as...

Advice

Do you really need to write a business plan? [poll results]

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Thought Leadership

4 questions to ask while building your startup

Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey's 15 Do's and Don’ts for achieving success

10 of Reid Hoffman's most valuable tips from LinkedIn's Series B pitch deck

5 qualities to look for in a co-founder

Guy Kawasaki’s top 11 mistakes made by entrepreneurs [Video]

Vivek Wadwha: what Silicon Valley can and can't teach emerging markets

4 incubators and accelerators that can help startups set up in Dubai

How to identify a startup opportunity

Learning how to focus your startup with the Mini Entrepreneur

6 lessons learned from the closure of a real estate startup in Lebanon

How to teach the Arts: The Discipline of a Free Mind

Startup funding: How to fuel your car [Infographic]

12 productive ways to take a break at work

15 tools that the most successful entrepreneurs use [Infographic]

How to be a mompreneur: 7 tips for building a strong support system

3 simple ways to screw up your startup

What’s the biggest career mistake you would gladly make again? 11 leading entrepreneurs tell us.

7 lessons I learned during my journey as an 'Entrepreneur Wannabe'

Is multitasking actually counterproductive?

Do you really need to write a business plan? [poll results]

10 things that great entrepreneurs do

Weighing the pros and cons of freelancing in the Arab world

How to teach the Arts: Debunking the myth of creativity

Why sharing your ideas can change the world: The power of email

Thought Leadership

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