Edgy streetwear brand challenges sedate Egyptian fashion market Young Egyptian streetwear brand Krak Baby has successfully brought 1990s-revival trucker hats and graphic t-shirts to the local fashion... Ahmed Gabr • 08 October, 2013
Aramex, Google, PayPal, and ShopGo launch EZStore.me to help offline retailers go online With 30 million people shopping online today in the Middle East and North Africa, in a market expected to reach $15 billion by 2015,... Nina Curley • 07 October, 2013 E-commerce
Jumia celebrates its first year, announces Mobinil partnership Jumia Egypt celebrated its first anniversary with a full-on fashion show and party atop the luxurious Fairmont hotel in central Cairo last... Omar Aysha • 07 October, 2013 Rocket Internet Jumia
Egyptian event platform Eventtus goes premium after investment from Vodafone, Cairo Angels After meeting at Startup Weekend Cairo in 2011, the founders of event organizing platform Eventtus launched their startup in... Glen Dalakian II • 07 October, 2013 Funding Venture Capital Angel Investment
11 ways to be unremarkably average [Cartoon] Lately, startup lingo has compared social media managers to gurus, developers to ninjas, and entrepreneurs to superheroes. This can be an... Aline Mayard • 07 October, 2013 Graphic Cartoon
3 ways to build a better city Developing a world-class city often involves creating a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem. New studies from McKinsey and the National... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 06 October, 2013 Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Government
Jordan Can Jordan's Voga Closet scale its e-commerce store without offering cash-on-delivery? [Update: Voga Closet is now offering Cash on Delivery] Needless to say, online payment is a serious issue for e-commerce websites in... Reine Farhat • 06 October, 2013 cash-on-delivery Shipping Payment Gateways
5 MOOCs that can help you become a successful entrepreneur There’s no miracle solution for success as an entrepreneur: you have to go for it, try, fail, learn, and go back in the ring. B... Aline Mayard • 06 October, 2013 MOOC
Shekra and Injaz Al-Arab partner to support crowdfunding with mentorship Fundraising is crucial for startups, but entrepreneurs also need knowledge and experience to realize success. That's why Shekra,... Ahmed Gabr • 06 October, 2013
Weekly Wrap-Up: Sept 29 - Oct 03 Announcing our newest WamdaCard partner: Amazon Web services Keeping operation cost down at your startup is a survival tactic for most... Wamda • 03 October, 2013 Weekly Wrap-Up
Egyptian entrepreneur Amira Azzouz fights back against content theft Last week, Amira Azzouz, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Fustany.com, the fashion and lifestyle site for Arab women, was doing some... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 03 October, 2013 theft content scraping
New Egyptian conference will support science R&D; applications open Saturday Linking universities to local industry is becoming increasingly important for transforming scientific research into projects that can... Hanan Solayman • 03 October, 2013 Research R&D Egypt
Healthcare portal WebTeb closes Series B round from Siraj Palestine Fund On top of reaching over 3.5 million unique visitors per month, Arabic medical content portal WebTeb just announced new investment from... Glen Dalakian II • 03 October, 2013 Healthcare Content Portals Health & Beauty
AUC launches its first spinoff startup, healthcare tech pioneer D-Kimia Even though there is a law in Egypt that allows universities to build companies and invest in projects, many important academic inventions... Hanan Solayman • 03 October, 2013 Egypt
Avoid these 10 mistakes that could ruin your company's reputation For small businesses, reputation is everything. A report recently published by O2 shows that 72% of consumers will not forgive a small... Muhanad Sabha • 02 October, 2013 reputation Social Networks
Meet 3 tech companies leading innovation in Pakistan Pakistan is gradually emerging as a hub of technological innovation. Every day, I come across more companies that are... Khurram Zafar • 02 October, 2013 Hardware Technology