Regional Wissam Sabbagh: A visionary turning idea to product “Sex and $550.” That was the subject line of an email then 18-year-old Wissam Sabbagh sent to thousands of potential... Dana Ballout • 26 July, 2016 Wissam Sabbagh Dotcom Mangomolo
Regional Fortifying healthcare startups in the Middle East and North Africa This article is a crosspost with the Stanford Social Innovation Review. AlemHealth, an Emirati medical startup, can remotely diagnose... Jamil Wyne - Willam Altman • 25 July, 2016 AlemHealth CardioDiagnostics AlTibbi
Regional BusinessConnect Session on SME Participation for Expo 2020 Dubai Expo 2020 Dubai continues its series of events and conferences by building bridges between local and international businesses. These... Wamda • 25 July, 2016 Expo 2020 Dubai sme Dubai
Regional Taking a sledgehammer to hierarchy Payfort is implementing a radical new company structure, one where CEO Omar Soudodi is no longer CEO, call center staff have voted to... Rachel Williamson • 25 July, 2016 holacracy Payfort HolacracyOne
Regional What the Wamda Research Lab discovered about hiring talent [Infographic] Last week the Wamda Research Lab (WRL) released a report exploring the ways in which MENA’s entrepreneurs hire and the... Teeb Assaf • 24 July, 2016 WRL Access to Talent Programme
Regional The aviation industry, a new frontier for MENA startups [Q&A] In the world of aviation, the Middle East is one of the fastest growing regions in passenger traffic. According to IATA, the rate will... Tala El Issa • 24 July, 2016 aviation Travel Abrar Ahmad
Regional One month of free courses from Potential and Wamda Being an entrepreneur isn't easy. Luckily there are many educational resources online to learn from. Wamda and Potential are... Wamda • 24 July, 2016 Potential courses Education
Regional SwitchMed Connect 2016 SwitchMed Connect is an annual gathering of Mediterranean stakeholders to build synergies, exchange knowledge, and scale up eco and social... Wamda • 22 July, 2016 Barcelona entrepreneurship eco friendly
Regional YPO & Wamda live Twitter Chat: What’s Trending Now in MENA? #MENABizTrends What industries are ready for disruption in MENA? What is trending in the business world? Got anything you’d like to learn about... Wamda • 22 July, 2016 twitter Chat entrepreneurship
Regional MENA cashes in: new report shows VC money is rising This is an edited crosspost from Medium. I’ve always admired the consistency and nuggets of wisdom that US founders and VCs are... Ramzy Ismail • 21 July, 2016 Venture Capital Flat6Labs
Regional Startups are creating jobs, but that’s not enough [Report] While the majority of the surveyed workforce in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) perceive working at a startup as a good career... Teeb Assaf • 19 July, 2016 WRL Access to Talent
Regional What I know about making people pay: Hadi Raad Fintech is the hot sector of 2016: banks are jumping into it, the Nasdaq is testing ideas, Abu Dhabi is setting up a fintech... Rachel Williamson • 18 July, 2016 Collaborative Entrepreneurship Visa Bridge
Regional Tech adoption can enable a revolution [Infographic] Governments and regulators must innovate, as the global adoption of technology grows and new economies take shape. This is one of the... Lucy Knight • 17 July, 2016 World Economic Forum GITR Innovation
Regional Who said travel tycoons don't need startups? Although establishing an airline is most probably not what you are aiming for as a travel entrepreneur, the aviation industry has plenty of... Tala El Issa • 17 July, 2016 aviation Travel MEMakersGE
Regional 4 coworking spaces for startups in the Levant Lebanon was one of the first country to develop a coworking spaces scene. Only one is still open (although it's in the process of being... Aline Mayard • 17 July, 2016
Regional Startup Watch: Pokémon Go, VCs are ponzi schemes, and Cairo's legacy of entrepreneurship 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 • 14 July, 2016 Startup Watch daraty Steve Blank
Regional 10 coworking spaces for startups in the Gulf A few years back, you had to head to Dubai to find a few coworking space in the Gulf. It's no longer the case. In the last... Aline Mayard • 14 July, 2016
Regional Arabic speech recognition for children [Video] The different Arabic dialects often make it harder for voice recognition services to understand and analyse the transmitted... Reine Farhat • 12 July, 2016 Votek Loujee speech recognition
Regional Invention is not about smarts, but logic If you have ever wondered how in the world our forefathers thought to invent the technologies we so much rely on today such as fridges,... Tala El Issa • 11 July, 2016 Steven Johnson Book Reviews Invention
Regional The MENA cloud: how big and where’s it going? According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index, the Middle East and Africa is expected to have the highest cloud traffic growth rate in the... Tala El Issa • 10 July, 2016 Cloud Mena cloud alliance gulf infotech
Regional Oasis500's FinTech Workshop Oasis500 is hosting a Business and Entrepreneurship workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs with ideas in Financial Technology from August... Wamda • 07 July, 2016 fin-tech Oasis500 Technology
Regional Startups and VCs: it doesn't have to be complicated The relationship between an investor and an investee is sometimes delicate. One is fronting up with cash and faith that it’ll go... Maya Rahal • 05 July, 2016 due diligence startups VCs
Regional What I know about mentoring: Kathleen Bury Despite having alumni spread across 14 countries the UK-based foundation Mowgli is still having to work very hard to get people to... Lucy Knight • 04 July, 2016 Mowgli relationships
Regional MENA by the numbers: what do they really mean? Internet penetration, media consumption or ecommerce spending rates all tell one piece of a broader story about how the internet is being... Rachel Williamson • 03 July, 2016 Payfort infographics Data