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Exclusive Sneak Peek at startupBahrain's New iOS Magazine for Entrepreneurs

A new iPad and iPhone magazine launches tomorrow to showcase, feature, and advise Bahrain’s local startups and e...

15 Must-Read Books for Middle East Entrepreneurs

Last week, the Wamda team asked our readers on Facebook, “What is the first book you would recommend for a new startup founder to read?” We ...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: February 17-21

This week's content included a number of announcements, from Turkish entrepreneur Bedriye Hulya's Social Entrepreneur of the Year award at...

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Looking for Funding? Here's How to Get an Investor's Attention

If you’re a business owner, founder or CEO, at some point in time, you need money, be it seed capital, growth capital or expansion c...

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7 Reasons Why You Should Not Be An Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship is suddenly the coolest thing around. Even children who once wanted to grow up to be engineers, doctors, pilots and...

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Microsoft Announces Initiative to Empower African Tech Ecosystem

This week, Microsoft announced a new initiative to support development and global competitiveness in Africa.The Microsoft 4Afrika...

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5 Innovative Ways to Crowdsource Better Governance

Whenever I hear people in the Arab region complain about the traffic, I tend to laugh. With the exception of Cairo, which has been bestowed...

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11 Lessons I Learned After 4 Years at Wizards Productions

As we mentioned recently, Jordan is seeing a slew of gaming companies close lately, Wizards Productions among them. Co-founder and...

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10 Tips of the Month from Entrepreneurs on Wamda

As they revealed their successes, challenges, and failures, the entrepreneurs we chatted with on Wamda this month had great advice for...

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9 Ways to Increase your Chances at Getting a Job

As the demands of the job market become more and more specialized, it's becoming harder to get a job. Unemployment on the whole in the...

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How the Middle East Can Reclaim its Creative Work Culture

“8-5 shifts”, “lunch breaks”, “weekends”, and “vacations” are part of the not-so-wonderful jargon we have inherited from the Industrial Revo...

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10 Tips for Moroccan Entrepreneurs from a Maroc Web Awards Co-Founder

In Morocco, the Maroc Web Awards (MWA) have become the event to look to in the web and mobile space- our LeWeb, if you will, bringing...

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Look for Co-Entrepreneurs that Will Complement Your Skillset [Pic of the Week]

"Without talented employees I’ll never make it." I hear this sentiment expressed often by new entrepreneurs struggling to build their s...

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7 Tips from Silicon Valley for Writing Your Demo Day Pitch

Kyle Wild, the founder of analytics company Keen IO, originally visited Jordan with the Geeks on a Place contingent that attended Wamda's...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: January 20-24

The life of an entrepreneur typically includes overcoming challenges, learning from failure, and taking risks in order to drive a startup...

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10 Secrets for Building Online Traffic from Women's Magazine Layalina

After several years of working in the media production business on daily, weekly and monthly periodicals, Awi, a publication company based...

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Why Jordanian Startup TakTek Closed and What it Means for the Gaming Sector

“I’ve let everyone go,” Gaith Kawar confessed to me over coffee at Starbucks in Abdoun last month, giving a look of resignation through his ...

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7 Lessons for Hosting an Offline Event, from Supermama in Egypt

A year after it launched, Supermama decided to venture into offline events in Egypt- a new move for the first Arabic online...

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Useful Applications for Bloggers and Online Activists in the Arab World

Today, our internet is built upon constructive sharing; users are no longer acting as passive receivers, but rather are actively...

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Keep Dreaming and Work Hard [Pic of the Week]

Despite the conflicts, instability and misfortunes hitting some Arab countries lately, it is refreshing to note that Arab communities are...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: January 13-17

This week on Wamda, we covered startups involved in reviving their neighborhoods, and startups using gaming to rev up the regional...

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Cisco Starting a Business Workshop

The Cisco Entrepreneur Institute is hosting the "Starting a Business" workshop at AMIDEAST in Beirut, a practical, comprehensive, business...

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10 Lessons Startups Can Learn from Gamers

By Lucas and Glen Dalakian. My brother and I decided to write a post together to highlight 10 business principles and lessons we learned...

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Two Skills that Separate True Innovators from the Rest of Us

Legendary innovation gurus are both “legendary” and “gurus” for good reason. In 2011, Clayton Christensen, Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregers...

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