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Wamda Announces Mix n' Mentor Doha

Building on the success of our first stop in Cairo on the 2013 Mix n’ Mentor Roadshow, Wamda next heads to Doha to continue our tour of 12 ...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

Mix n’ Mentor Doha

Building on the success of our first stop in Cairo on the 2013 Mix n’ Mentor Roadshow, Wamda next heads to Doha to continue our tour of 12 c...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

Lebanon's Cineklik Guides Moviegoers in the Arab World

“I like movies, but I don’t have time to go to them,” says Nagi Salloum, founder of regional cinema show-time online datab...

Content Portals Film

8 Tips for Building a Successful Company, from the 5th Startup Q8

Our fifth monthly Startup Q8 (Kuwait) event may have been our very best. We had two sessions: Designing Customer Experience by Haider...

Customer Service Startup Q8 Advice

New Citizen Journalist Program Trains Jordan’s Storytellers

After the Arab Spring, new media has gained tremendous traction, as internet penetration grows, and users look to track the...

Film Citizen Journalism Jordan

Why Digital Music Services Have Yet to Disrupt the Arab Market

One of the most heated panels at ArabNet last week was the Mobile Music panel, which brought together 3 major music streaming services in...

Music Mobile

Flat6Labs Summer Cycle Deadline

Flat6Labs in Egypt is calling for applications to its next incubation cycle starting in June 2013. The cycle will last for 4 months...

Flat6Labs

U.A.E

Can Indian Review Site Zomato Satisfy the Gulf?

India's market of over 1 billion has been enough to sustain most of its tech startups, including success story FlipKart, the online book...

f&b Reviews Expansion

Startup Weekend Ramallah

Startup Weekend makes its way to Ramallah in Palestine on April 4-6, 2013. SW Ramallah will follow the basic Startup Weekend model, anyone ...

Startup Weekend Competitions

Can Women Entrepreneurs Have It All? Conclusions from Our First W4Women Rountable

Can women entrepreneurs in the Arab world really have it all? This was the question we asked some of Egypt’s most outspoken female f...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

Bader Business Plan Competition in Egypt

The Bader Program recently launched a new business plan competition in Egypt, applications are due on April 15, 2013. The competition looks...

Business Development Ideas Egypt

Dubizzle Seeks to Change Culture of Ownership in Egypt

Global market research firm YouGov recently conducted a survey on the buying and selling behaviors of Egyptian internet users...

Social Change Egypt E-commerce

Alex Balloon Set to Take Flight in Egypt After Competition Win

Coming soon to a sky near you (if you’re in Egypt) is “Alex Balloon,” otherwise known as the Alexandria Balloon Project. To boost to...

Egypt Competitions

Algeria: The Power of Mentorship

The Mowgli Foundation is hosting “Algeria: The Power of Mentorship” in Algiers on March 14, 2013 to bring together entrepreneurs to learn th...

Mentorship

New Business Consultancy Helps Startups Get On Their Feet in Egypt

New entrepreneurs in Egypt come up against a variety of challenges: registering a company, finding legal help, renting an office,...

Startup Services Consulting

15 Tweetable Tips from Mix n' Mentor Cairo

At Mix n' Mentor Cairo, entrepreneurs and mentors discussed 3 major issues faced by Egyptian entrepreneurs. We've compiled a few of the key...

Mix n Mentor Advice Mentorship

Insights from Mix n' Mentor Cairo: What You Missed

This Saturday, we kicked off our 2013 roadshow by hosting Mix n’ Mentor Cairo, which brought around 300 of Egypt’s leading entrepreneurs a...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

Inside East Africa's Tech Hubs Part 2: Culture

Click here to see the original photos on Picasa Web. In Part Two of this three-part photo series “Inside East Africa’s Hubs”, we...

East Africa Technology Coworking Spaces

Wamda Launches EdTech Mapping Project - Register Here

Education in the Middle East and North Africa is in crisis. Employers lament low skilled job seekers, unemployment is at an all time high,...

Mapping EdTech Education

Keystone: Saudi Arabia’s First Idea Translation Lab

Within the barren hills of oil-rich Dhahran in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia, a unique structure is slowly reaching high into the...

Ecosystem Accelerators Innovation

Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Announces Roundtable Series, Starting in Cairo

This month, Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs (W4WE) is launching a roundtable series to bring women from all stages of the entrepreneurial...

Women W4Women

Show, Don't Tell: How Entrepreneurs Can Communicate More Powerfully

This piece was originally posted on LinkedIn on February 26,2013. “Show, Don’t Tell.” In my recent incantation as a temporary write...

Advice

Regional

10 Tips for Getting the Most out of Mix n’ Mentor

We're hitting Cairo next on February 21st with our first Mix N' Mentor of the year 2015! Apply here to secure your seat. Mix n’...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

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

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