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Tech Entrepreneurs Prepare for a New Egypt

Sometimes you attend an event expecting one thing, but end up gaining insight into something completely different. Or at least in something...

Conferences Ecosystem Startup Communities

Creating a Culture Shift in Cairo

Fill a room with equal numbers of people from the arts, software developers, NGO volunteers, and business professionals. Now sprinkle some ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

Meet the Teams that Pitched at Cairo Culture Shift

The British Council Culture Shift event in Cairo this month brought together an interesting mix of teams and ideas: Competing ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Shows Growth at Second Demo Day

The great and the good of Egypt’s entrepreneurial ecosystem gathered for the showcase of Flat6Labs’ latest clutch of ready-to-grow acc...

Accelerators Angel Investment Ecosystem

MAKE Ignition

The MAKE business HUB space in Dubai is launching MAKE ignition, on monday may 7th, from 7pm to 9pm, a dynamic and engaging platform for...

Ecosystem

Defining Small and Medium Enterprises in Oman

As Oman’s Third Economic Forum came to a close on Monday, the question of how to define small and medium enterprises SMEs came to a h...

Conferences Ecosystem Startup Communities

Shaping the Entrepreneurial Future of Egypt

The 2012 AUC Research Conference, held this past week at the university's New Cairo campus, was an exercise in uniting Egypt's...

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

Journey to Amman Part 2: Impressions of Jordan's Tech Startups

When I visited Oasis500 on my recent trip to Jordan, I had the opportunity to meet with 14 startups incubated there, for around 15-20...

Ecosystem Oasis500 Startup Communities

Can Policy Makers Create an Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship?

This piece is cross-posted and adapted slightly from The Economist, November 16, 2010. Zebras are beautiful. They are powerful. They...

Ecosystem

Journey to Amman: 5 Tips from Startups in the Arab World's Tech Capital

At the end of last month, Fadi Ghandour talked about the 8 different steps Jordan took to create an enabling environment for tech...

Accelerators Ecosystem Oasis500

What Makes An Entrepreneurship Ecosystem?

The question of how to build a fully fledged entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Middle East is one that we look to address daily at Wamda....

Trends Ecosystem

Egypt

'Design Build Breathe' Conference in Cairo

In light of the growing concern for ecological and environmental problems, the Design Build Breathe conference aims to showcase the latest ...

Sofitel Cairo El Gezirah Green entrepreneurs Egypt

Can Microsoft help scale R&D in the Middle East? [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Charbel Fakhoury, VP of Sales, Marketing, and Services at M...

R&D Technology Ecosystem

What can the Bank of Palestine do to better support startups? [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting on the Middle East and North Africa in the Dead Sea, Jordan this May, we tried to...

Banks Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Ecosystem

How can governments better support entrepreneurs? [Wamda TV]

At the World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, Wamda chatted with Yasar Jarrar, a Young Global Leader working as a Partner at Bain ...

World Economic Forum Government Mentorship

What's dangerous about the hype in the Middle East startup ecosystem [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting on the Middle East and North Africa in Dead Sea, Jordan this May, we chatted with Usama Fayyad, E...

Hype World Economic Forum Incubator

What are the biggest challenges faced by Bahraini entrepreneurs? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV]

During Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor event in Manama, we asked attendees to share their biggest challenges to building their startup. Equity fun...

Bahrain Mix n Mentor Ecosystem

Matching Entrepreneurs with the Right Mentors: A Chat with Paris Norriss of Rise UAE [Wamda TV]

At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Paris Norriss, the founder of Rise UAE, discusses how his program connects experienced mentors with ...

Ecosystem Mentorship

Sister Entrepreneurs Open Trendy Café in Oman [Wamda TV]

Omani entrepreneur Amal Al-Khusaibi, Deputy Managing Director of The K’s Café, discusses how she and her sisters turned a small catering bu...

Conferences Ecosystem Food & Beverage

Going Global in an Emerging Market: Tips from Alexander Galitsky of Almaz Capital [Wamda TV]

Alexander Galitsky, managing partner and co-founder of leading Russian venture capital firm Almaz Capital, was one of the key speakers at...

Advice Ecosystem Innovation

Beirut Global Shapers Hub Launch

The Beirut Global Shapers will be officially launching their hub on December 21st at Karaj Beirut in Mar Mkhayil. Check it out to learn...

Ecosystem Innovation

A Chat with Dan Isenberg on Scaling and the Role of Government in Entrepreneurship [Wamda TV]

In a candid chat at the recent World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai, Daniel Isenberg, professor at Babson University ...

Advice Ecosystem Government

A Chat with Joi Ito: Why Agile Startups are More Likely to Succeed [Wamda TV]

This is part one of a three part video interview with Joi Ito, an entrepreneur, investor, director of the MIT Media Lab, and previous ...

Advice Ecosystem Innovation

A Chat with Dave McClure of 500 Startups and Geeks on a Plane in Amman [Wamda TV]

In the bus on the way back from our first Mix n Mentor event in Amman, we chatted with Dave McClure of Silicon Valley-based accelerator and...

Accelerators Advice Ecosystem

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