Regional Startup Watch: Google Duo, Dropbox IPO and squirting guns 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... Maya Rahal • 18 August, 2016 Startup Watch Google Duo DropBox
Regional Test your market with these 6 prototyping tools This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Some entrepreneurs think that prototyping delays the launch of the real product and could... Reine Farhat • 17 August, 2016 Protoytping Axure RP Nuwait
Regional Why digital access is essential to economic development Digital. It's a byword for modern life and how we move our homes and cities forward. Back in May, Dubai hosted the 22nd GCC Smart... Archana Menon • 17 August, 2016 smart government Smart Cities
Regional GE Geeks Go for Gold Challenge During this year's Rio 2016 Olympic Games, GE machines are tweeting in their native tongue - binary code – about their... Wamda • 17 August, 2016 GE twitter Coding
Regional National Treasure 2016 [Exclusive discount code] The region’s first theatrical conference and gathering of leaders shaping the future of UAE is here! National Treasure will be... Wamda • 16 August, 2016 Dubai conference Dubai Chamber
Regional Making the best of a child’s addiction In the 90s, parents hid Gameboys from their children on high shelves and under heavy mattresses. This year, with face-to-screen time at... Dana Ballout • 16 August, 2016 Play My Way children Education
Regional Mighty Labs Pre-Accelerator Want to make your business idea a reality? The Mighty Labs Pre-Accelerator program in Berlin is accepting MENA applications for its... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 Berlin MENA entrepreneurship
Regional What I know about investing in content: Turi Munthe A little over two years ago, the MENA region witnessed the first big acquisition of a media company. Diwanee, a Dubai-based digital... Maya Rahal • 15 August, 2016 digital content demotix WIK
Regional #MESTVideo Contest Every day, news from the Middle East paints a portrait of chaos and despair. But in the maelstrom of violence and conflict, there are... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 hope middle east Film
Regional Impressions from #MLAbuDhabi: urban food systems track team chat about their solution The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation urban
Regional MIT Media Lab and Wamda Workshop Abu Dhabi 2014: Hind Hobeika of Instabeat The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation Sports
Regional MIT Media Lab and Wamda Workshop Abu Dhabi 2014: Joe Paradiso The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation Technology
Regional 5 medical solutions startups from MENA Research suggests that the global medical device market will grow by 14 percent between 2016 and 2020. However, VC investment in medical... Lucy Knight • 15 August, 2016 Healthcare medical solutions Slighter
Regional Be the CEO not the COO: finding space for vision-making [Opinion] A whopping 70.6 percent of entrepreneurs in MENA say it’s difficult to balance daily operational work and fire-fighting with strategy... Abdelrahman Wahba • 11 August, 2016 Opinion Iqraaly strategy
Regional Startup Watch: IKEA domination, young blood, and death by space travel 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 • 11 August, 2016 Startup Watch
Regional 5 [NOT Netflix] video streaming platforms available in MENA 2016 was a year of celebration for young MENA users hungry for video on demand (VOD) and online streaming services. Netflix entered our... Dana Ballout • 10 August, 2016 Video Streaming Video On Demand netflix
Regional What's holding MENA's digital media market back? [Podcast] This podcast has been crossposted from Wamda Capital. Digital media is a growing market, but the amount of education still required for... Rachel Williamson • 08 August, 2016 Wamda Capital digital content Kharabeesh
Regional Tamatem: Gaming for 18 million users As global gaming publishers overlook the Arab region’s hunger for localized mobile games, regional publishers are... Tala El Issa • 07 August, 2016 tamatem Gaming localization
Regional How to land deals with the biggest fish in the market? [Wamda TV] Kharabeesh, an online media and entertainment network, has collaborated with Samsung to launch an application that has unlimited access to... Reine Farhat • 02 August, 2016 Collaborative Entrepreneurship Kharabeesh
Regional What I know about money and hardware: PK Gulati Hardware is in vogue. Where once you needed years, millions of dollars, and institutional support to launch a device or hardware... Rachel Williamson • 01 August, 2016 The Assembly hardware investing PK Gulati
Regional Blueprint of a VC fund This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared on Medium. Newly formed VC firms are startups that are vying for... Mohamad Charafeddine • 28 July, 2016 venture capital fund term sheets Airbnb
Regional A Google for Arabic e-books To look for books in Arabic, on free websites, means to enter a cycle of endless electronic links, which might sometimes be unsafe.... Veroniqua Khachan • 27 July, 2016 Open araby Cubic connect Arabic digital content
Regional Startup Battle 2016 Startup Battle, in association with The Rockstar Hubs International is an exciting pitch-fest, featuring a panel of entrepreneur investors.... Wamda • 27 July, 2016 entrepreneurship Pitch Competition Investment
Regional Wisdom and warnings: Twitter chat with Christopher Schroeder and Marwan Kheireddine “[We] need to stop thinking of MENA as one country - some areas [are] hard, even tragic; some [are] rising,” tweeted... Dana Ballout • 27 July, 2016 Christopher Schroeder Marwan Kheireddine YPO