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Bolstered by one failure and two pivots, this Moroccan entrepreneur wants to become your temporary CTO

The name Yassine El Kachchani should sound familiar to Wamda’s readers. He's one of the earliest Moroccan entrepreneurs, and his first v...

Pivot Failure

Whatever happened to Morocco’s ecommerce pioneer MyDeal.ma?

For a few months now, one question has been on many Moroccans’ lips: is daily deals website MyDeal.ma really “on hold, to rise from its ash...

morocco Failure Daily Deals

Knowing when to start over: Lessons from FailCon Dubai

Photo credit: Varuna Nand Singh In its first Middle East outing, Silicon Valley’s FailCon proved a refreshing departure from the t...

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How this Tunisian gaming company rebounded after a failure

Just over a year ago, then-Features Editor Glen Dalakian got pretty excited about a new game, DefenDoor, and a new gaming studio,...

digital mania tunisia Failure

Death of a Tunisian dating site

One year ago the odds appeared to be in the favour of Zouz, a Tunisian online dating site. In 2009, the entrepreneur left his...

fundraising Failure

Has MyVLE's Moroccan founder learned enough from two failures to finally achieve success?

MyVLE is without a doubt one of the most hotly anticipated startups from Morocco. With its Moroccan and U.S.-based A-team, a well-designed...

morocco E-Learning Failure

How one Jordanian entrepreneur failed, then built a better company: the story of YalaValet

The startup scene is no stranger to failure, especially not in the Middle East, where regulations can cripple new businesses and generous...

Payment systems Automobiles Failure

Ex-employee explains Yahoo's closure: 'the natural result of instability'

In the aftermath of Yahoo's closure of its Cairo office two weeks ago, many have noted that it wasn't an isolated incident, since...

Failure

4 questions to ask while building your startup

Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave u...

Tips Advice Failure

6 lessons learned from the closure of a real estate startup in Lebanon

Bootstrapping a startup in the Arab world, let alone Lebanon, is anything but easy. And sometimes, despite launching with the support of an...

Mapping Real Estate Advice

Oman

4 lessons learned from failure: the story of an Omani serial entrepreneur

Being an entrepreneur in a small and young market like Oman is not easy if you don’t go lean. With only some 3 million citizens as your p...

Failure

3 simple ways to screw up your startup

I was recently asked to give a talk at Lamba Labs on three ways to screw up your startup. But which three to choose? Note: Lamba...

Expert Advice Advice Mentorship

What’s the biggest career mistake you would gladly make again? 11 leading entrepreneurs tell us.

“Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom." -William Jordan In career, and in life, we make mistakes. You can’t prevent them and avoiding ...

Mistakes Leadership Advice

7 lessons I learned during my journey as an 'Entrepreneur Wannabe'

Even though I’ve been on an entrepreneurship journey for more than four years, I still consider myself an “entrepreneur wannabe,” because ...

Advice Failure

Overcoming failure, Jordan's Wheels Express founder launches logistics startup in Dubai

When we last caught up with Ibrahim Manna, he was just closing down his delivery startup, Wheels Express, one of Jordan’s early s...

Logistics Shipping Failure

Wizards founder builds new mobile gaming company at 500 Startups in Silicon Valley

In an effort to keep their gaming startup, Wizards Productions, afloat, founders Hussam Hammo and Sohaib Thiab pivoted into mobile,...

Incubator Failure Mobile Gaming

These three startups failed in Jordan and they're proud of it. Here are their 5 honest tips.

[Editor's note: "Building a culture around failure is the only way to build a healthy ecosystem," a seasoned startup veteran told me...

Failure

When Big Companies Fall, Entrepreneurship Rises

This article is adapted from the original version which was published on the Harvard Business Review blog on March...

Trends Failure Advice

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Thought Leadership

Bolstered by one failure and two pivots, this Moroccan entrepreneur wants to become your temporary CTO

Whatever happened to Morocco’s ecommerce pioneer MyDeal.ma?

Knowing when to start over: Lessons from FailCon Dubai

How this Tunisian gaming company rebounded after a failure

Death of a Tunisian dating site

Has MyVLE's Moroccan founder learned enough from two failures to finally achieve success?

How one Jordanian entrepreneur failed, then built a better company: the story of YalaValet

Ex-employee explains Yahoo's closure: 'the natural result of instability'

4 questions to ask while building your startup

6 lessons learned from the closure of a real estate startup in Lebanon

4 lessons learned from failure: the story of an Omani serial entrepreneur

3 simple ways to screw up your startup

What’s the biggest career mistake you would gladly make again? 11 leading entrepreneurs tell us.

7 lessons I learned during my journey as an 'Entrepreneur Wannabe'

Overcoming failure, Jordan's Wheels Express founder launches logistics startup in Dubai

Wizards founder builds new mobile gaming company at 500 Startups in Silicon Valley

These three startups failed in Jordan and they're proud of it. Here are their 5 honest tips.

When Big Companies Fall, Entrepreneurship Rises

90% of Tech Startups Fail [Infographic]

11 Lessons I Learned After 4 Years at Wizards Productions

Why Jordanian Startup TakTek Closed and What it Means for the Gaming Sector

Entrepreneurship is an Attitude [Pic of the Week]

How Unfair Competition Caused an Egyptian Startup to Fail

Though Painful, Failure is Redeemable [Pic of the Week]

Thought Leadership

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