Wamda

Global

Overcoming failure and defying normal [Q&A]

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. Nine out of every 10 new startups will fail. While many entrepreneurs will acknowledge this...

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Kuwait

Kuwait’s path towards becoming a food capital

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. As the GCC looks to diversify their revenue streams away from the oil and gas sector, Kuwait is...

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Global

Startup Watch: About the public failure of facial recognition, Apple Pay in the UAE and airport nap pods

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Regional

Gender discrimination in entrepreneurship: MENA women’s take

This is the first of two articles about how recent global developments affecting gender dynamics and discrimination against women in tech...

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Lebanon

Solidifying business bonds through partnerships: #MixNMentor Beirut

The Lebanese Information Technology (ICT) sector and related industries, is a fast growing sector with a market size of $436.2 million in...

Mix n Mentor Beirut startups entrepreneurs

Global

Startups, brace yourselves for these hurdles [Opinion]

It’s common knowledge that startups fail at the whopping rate of 90 percent. For this reason, whatever their differences, startups...

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Global

Startup Watch: Uber’s new era, a computer that can smell and wealth secrets

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Uber AI

U.A.E

Truck service startups are on the rise in the UAE

While truck companies have been around for decades to transport large shipments of goods, the UAE is now seeing a rise in truck service...

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Regional

AI is taking roots in the MENA

Even though Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing at a blistering pace, outside academia and engineering, it remains a bit of a...

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Global

Startup Watch: The vampire startup, the era’s new banks and the dark side of entrepreneurship

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Regional

What I Know about the right time to crowdinvest: Eureeca’s Chris Thomas

Chris Thomas, co-CEO and cofounder of equity crowdfunding platform Eureeca, has sat at both ends of the proverbial funding table. He has...

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Regional

What MENA entrepreneurs should know before moving to Europe and the US

Expanding your business beyond the MENA region is a challenge. People in the know cite such a venture’s costliness, point out...

Entrepreneur Europe MENA

Regional

Battle of the finances: venture capital vs. private equity

If a business is searching for a source of external funding, it can turn to various sources. Some of these sources may be vastly different,...

Venture Capital private equity Funding models

Global

Startup Watch: Message from the Pharaohs, zombie startups, and indoor farming

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Coworking Spaces VC

Tunisia

What I know about building an ecosystem from scratch: Wassel Berrayana

In 2000, Wassel Berrayana was an employee in HQ Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley’s companies, when he decided to leave his job...

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Regional

New startups on the block: August

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

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Morocco

Dare Inc. a social incubator on the rise in Morocco

According to a study by the British Council and the Moroccan CISE (Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship), the...

Social Entrepreneurship startups incubation

U.A.E

Gulf Customer and Digital Experience Awards

The Gulf Customer Experience Awards aim to recognise great customer, digital, and employee experience across the region. The award...

Awards CX UX

Regional

Entrepreneurship is disrupting MENA’s real estate and retail gurus

The first half of 2017 was an exciting one for enterprises and startups in the MENA region with mega deals taking the ecosystem by storm....

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Regional

Investors, brace yourselves for the aftermath of unprofitable unicorn IPOs [Opinion]

The fundamental idea behind Initial Public Offerings, or IPOs, is that when companies need capital, they get themselves listed on public...

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Palestine

Connect Gaza looks to bring Palestinian startups into the regional ecosystem

Digital entrepreneurship and innovation are becoming key focuses of many governments across the Middle East as they seek to reform their...

PICTI startups investments

Regional

New startups on the block: July

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to watch. Biotags Saudi...

Startup List startups

Palestine

Ibtikar receives a $2.5M investment, looks to help Palestinian entrepreneurs get funded

Ibtikar Fund, a Palestinian early stage venture capital firm has announced it has received a $2.5 million investment from the International...

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Tunisia

B@labs, the first Tunisian incubator in downtown Tunis

With up to a million people daily passing along Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, it is a strategic location for the latest addition to the...

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