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Launching a fishing startup in the Gulf

“I used to go fishing with my uncle, but once I graduated it was difficult without my own boat,” says Kuwaiti entrepreneur Abdullah Als...

Dubai Incubator Sports

Could Morocco's Made in Medina be the next Time Out for the Arab world?

Famous Moroccan city guide Made in Medina has now expanded to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beirut and now Bruxelles, Belgium. So how did a...

Franchising City Guides Scaling

Middle East Venture Partners invests $1.9 million in three scaling companies

With a history of investing in tech and e-commerce ventures, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) is now diversifying a...

Venture Capital MEVP Scaling

Who Loves Labneh? Lebanese Brand Krock's Eyes the Gulf

Day after day, Ramzi Jalbout and his colleagues would gather during their lunch break at St. Georges Hospital in Beirut. Usually 9-to-5ers...

Scaling Expansion Food & Beverage

Could a New Model for Scaling Handicraft Artisans Transform Egypt’s Economy?

Year-old initiative Anamel Masriya hopes to transform modest Egyptian artisans into independent entrepreneurs, in a bid to boost their ...

Art Ecosystem Egypt

Dermandar Wins World’s Best App Award: What’s Next

Dermandar, one of the hottest startups to come out of the Arab world this year, has just won the “World’s Best App” award in the Lifestyle a...

Mobile Mobile Apps Scaling

Mideast Tunes, the Indie MySpace of the Middle East, Announces Partnership with Shazam

In 2010, when MySpace-style music platforms were just launching in the Middle East, opinionated blogger Ahmad Al-Shagra took a stand,...

Digital Marketing Mobile Music

Dispelling the Myth that Arab Women Entrepreneurs Don't Found Scalable Businesses

What do you get when you put an outspoken group of female entrepreneurs under one roof for one day? At the recent Women Entrepreneurs in...

Ecosystem Scaling Women

Jordan’s Nakhweh Relaunches as a Regional Hub for Social Ventures

Nakhweh has long been one of Jordan’s darlings in the social entrepreneurship space, a scrappy NGO trying to make volunteerism popular (or a...

Ecosystem Scaling Social Change

3 Tips for Localizing Global Trends in an Emerging Market

Tablets and e-readers are already established. Net TV is set to explode worldwide. But will cars that drive themselves really take off? As...

Advice Ideas Innovation

How to Track Popular Keywords: What Every Startup Should Know

When building a web-based startup, it's essential to master the art of luring users to your site, and the first step is making it easy for...

Advice Analytics Scaling

Focus Entrepreneurship Policy on Scale-Up, Not Start-Up

Cross posted from the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, November 30, 2012. For more on scaling and the role of government in...

Government Scaling

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 02-06

This week has been especially full of advice on what to do and what not to do. Check out our posts for some legal advice as well as what...

Advice Arabic Content CoE Cards

Can a Sharing Economy Take Root in the Middle East and Turkey? (Can AirBnB Clones Find Success?)

Increasingly competitive economic conditions and growing social concerns force us to search for new ways of living and connecting with one...

Scaling Crowdsourcing

Jordan's Dakwak Launches Localization Platform to Help Startups Go Global

Dakwak has been in the making for over a year, but it has now finally launched its solution for helping websites localize or go global. For...

Arabic Content Scaling

How to Hire at a Software Startup as You Scale

Despite the buzz of excitement around entrepreneurship in Pakistan, it is not always easy to entice the brightest young engineers to work...

Advice Programme Scaling

Wild Peeta Goes Lean, Launching Crowdfunded Franchises and a New TV Show

Dubai is not known for being lean. “Because the Gulf is such a new region, everything is geared towards big imported brands,” says Mohamed P...

Scaling Entertainment Food & Beverage

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 04-08

This week, we set off with the first of our three Mix N' Mentor events. We're really excited as ALL events have completely sold out - and...

Aureos CoE Cards Conferences

5 Tips for Winning Business as a Software Services Startup

When you are a software services startup, business development is your lifeblood. In a country like Pakistan, where the development of...

Negotiation Software Marketing

Jordan’s Wheels Express Closes Despite Steady Customers: Did it Scale Too Quickly?

In May 2011, Wheels Express was a rising star in Jordan. It graduated from Oasis500 and was one of the first companies to secure...

Expansion Failure Oasis500

Find out if you're a scale-up entrepreneur with this two-minute test

This article has been cross posted from Harvard Business Review. Cool ideas for new businesses are a dime a dozen. That — plus all t...

harvard business review scale scale up

Lebanese Startup Kactus Reinvents the Mobile To-Do List [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, we chatted with Nadi Chemali, the co-Founder of Kactus, an iPhone app in Lebanon that...

Scaling Accelerators Angel Investment

How to Nurture Global Ambition: A Chat with John Bradford of Springboard [Wamda TV]

Springboard is an intensive 13-week mentor-led business accelerator program based in London and Cambridge that offers entrepreneurs office...

Accelerators Advice Scaling

How Turkish Jewelry Company Hazinem Plans to Enter the Middle East [Wamda TV]

During the Webrazzi Summit, we chatted with Sevgi Soysal from Hazinem, a Turkish jewelry e-commerce company. Soysal told us about the...

E-commerce Marketing Scaling

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