Meet the Moroccan smartphone apps that won the Méditel Apps Challenge In 2012, only 16% of Moroccans owning a mobile phone had a smartphone. And yet, smartphone penetration grew 30% from 2011 to 2012,... Aline Mayard • 16 June, 2013
Social media usage in the Middle East [Infographic] Facebook is far and away the most popular social network in the Middle East, with 58 million users, around 18% of the total population of... Ahmed Gabr • 16 June, 2013 Social Infographic Social Networks
Weekly Wrap-Up: June 9-13 Throughout your entrepreneurial journey, you will notice that the strength of your business lies in its people. Your co-founder, partner,... Wamda • 13 June, 2013 Weekly Wrap-Up
Growing a hybrid online-offline business: Duplays from Dubai [Case Study] Wamda is announcing the launch of a new case study series, in partnership with the El Khazindar Business Research and Case Center (KCC) at... Wamda • 13 June, 2013 Dubai Sports
Scaling a lean startup in Iraq: how Easy Bites took Erbil by storm Restaurants and fast food outlets are booming in Kurdistan. According to one official in Erbil, Kurdistan’s capital now boasts close to 5... Nina Curley • 13 June, 2013 Addressing Online delivery Scaling
Why the Arab world needs more women in the workforce When female participation in the workforce in the Arab world still ranges between 17% and 27% of the female population, something has to... Shaimaa El Nazer • 13 June, 2013 W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women
American Express launches banking app in Saudi Arabia; will it take off? Global credit card giant American Express just launched an Arabic and English iPhone app for Saudi Arabia, offering... Ahmed Gabr • 13 June, 2013
The Mini Entrepreneur learns to balance between startup and personal life Do your friends lose interest whenever you share the latest updates from your startup - what metrics you monitor and how your developer... Wamda • 12 June, 2013
After Mix n’ Mentor Riyadh, Astrolabs is traveling the region to help startups scale On the heels of their first “Scaling Online Startups” weekend in Dubai and their workshop at Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh last month, Astro... Nina Curley • 12 June, 2013 Mix n Mentor Advice Mentorship
How to market a digital publication: Advice from the founder of startupBahrain [Wamda TV] During Wamda's Mix N’ Mentor event in Manama, we chatted with Ahmed Sawafiri, the founder of startupBahrain, the first interactive tablet ma... Wamda • 12 June, 2013 Bahrain Mix n Mentor
What women want at work in Qatar: conclusions from W4Women Doha Photos by Bilal Khalifeh of Silatech. May was a busy month at Wamda; we powered through 4 Mix N' Mentor events in one month, in Bahrain,... Nina Curley • 12 June, 2013 W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women
Will this Egyptian startup be the next Pinterest of the Middle East? With women making up 70% of worldwide Pinterest users, and 97% of Pinterest’s Facebook fans, one image-sharing social network s... Ahmed Gabr • 12 June, 2013 Social Networks Social Media Fashion
A global startup stock exchange platform just launched. Is it a good bet for Arab startups? A new stock exchange focused on startups went live yesterday, to help small companies go public and sell shares to investors from around... Nina Curley • 11 June, 2013 IPOs Investment
Wysada announces investment from MENA Venture Investments; here's how it plans to build loyalty Wysada, a flash sales site based in Amman, Jordan, has announced investment from MENA Venture Investments (MVI), a Jordan-based angel... Nina Curley • 11 June, 2013 Flash Sales Scaling Marketing
Mix N' Mentor Casablanca The next stop on Wamda's 2013 Mix N' Mentor Roadshow, Mix N’ Mentor Casablanca, will take place on July 6, 2013. MnM Casablana will be a o... Wamda • 11 June, 2013 Mix n Mentor Mentorship
You left us so soon! To Karim Jazouani, Champion of Moroccan entrepreneurship I was getting so excited to finally see you again at Mix N' Mentor Casablanca after the time we met in 2009. At the time, I was working on... Habib Haddad • 11 June, 2013 Goodbyes Leadership
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