Lebanon Smart scaling: how these MENA companies got it right The Middle East and North Africa is one of the most difficult parts of the world to grow a business, but it’s even harder to scale... Brooke Anderson • 03 January, 2017 Scaling lebanon MarkaVIP
Jordan When the cold is good for your business While many of us dread the cold knocking at our doors, some entrepreneurs welcome the winter season with open arms, more than happy to see... Tala El Issa • 02 January, 2017 Winter Arabia Weather Jordan
Global What I know about emerging markets: Mario Berta Starting up in emerging countries can be a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, the value of coming into a non saturated market... Dana Ballout • 02 January, 2017 Mario Berta Rocket Internet Fly Spaces
Palestine Social Dice helps navigate rough waters of MENA hiring process When you ask founder Saed Shela what the secret is to Social Dice’s success, he will say it is about making the hiring process smart... Christina Ganim • 01 January, 2017 SocialDice palestine uae
Egypt Egypt’s Vezeeta gets $5M Series B Vezeeta, an Egypt-based automated physician, clinic and hospital bookings platform received $5 million in series B funding led by... Lucy Knight • 30 December, 2016 Vezeeta Egypt BECO Capital
Regional Way to grow: 4 vital skills for 2017 [Opinion] With 2017 around the corner, it’s time to learn a new set of strategies, sharpen your skill-sets, and get ready for the challenges... Ehsan Jahandarpour • 29 December, 2016 Growth hacking white hat links content marketing
Regional Startup Watch: why cats like boxes, 2017 predictions, and the big trillion 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... Rachel Williamson • 29 December, 2016 Startup Watch 2017 predictions cats in boxes
Lebanon Lack of local talent drives Lebanese entrepreneurs abroad Despite a deep desire by Lebanese entrepreneurs to hire local and base their startups at home soil, lagging skills within the labor force... Dana Ballout • 28 December, 2016 Endeavor lebanon talent
U.A.E Jisr Venture Partners like to look outside MENA [Know your VC] Jisr Venture Partners founder and chairman Waleed Albanawi is making another investment into the food and beverage (F&B) space by... Elias Jabbe • 28 December, 2016 Investment jisr venture partners ReserveOut
Regional Tech drives MENA to a crossroad Fourteen years ago a group of Arab scholars drew a sobering picture of the Middle East: that it would need 140 years to just double its per... Jonas Feller • 28 December, 2016 Knowledge Economy undp AHDR
Regional Wamda’s best stories of 2016 2016 was the year of trying new things and testing some ideas on you, our readers. We brought in a weekly series we called Startup... Rachel Williamson • 27 December, 2016 Wamda2016 shezlong sympaticus
Regional Entrepreneurship could be worth $700B for MENA Every month, someone opines that MENA has a “relatively nascent” startup ecosystem, while others spot the “next Silicon... Jonas Feller • 27 December, 2016 Wamda Research Lab WRL policies
Egypt Fixing Egypt’s waste crisis one handbag at a time An Egyptian startup in Aswan is turning palm tree waste into handmade products, and is not only providing jobs but helping to revive... Nayrouz Talaat • 27 December, 2016 Napata palm waste waste management
Syria Wikilogia to raise the bar in Damascus ecosystem On December 10, Damascus-based Wikilogia launched Startup Technology Trends Program (STTP) with the aim of injecting confidence and... Yahya Saleh • 26 December, 2016 syria Wikilogia Al Amjad Isstaif
Regional 6 WRL reports in 2016 to highlight ecosystem opportunities #Wamda2016 This year was an interesting one, not just from a geopolitical angle, but also a technological one that saw some great advancements, not... Tarek Faycal • 26 December, 2016 Wamda2016 Healthcare Cleantech
Regional 30k people were at MENA’s top 3 startup events in 2016 #Wamda2016 The startupper calendar gets busier every year. In 2016 there have been more than 200 events related to entrepreneurship, startups,... Edoardo Giorgetti • 25 December, 2016 Wamda2016 Roundup Ecosystem
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