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When looking for investment, you need the law on your side

At the dawn of a new year, and potentially a new era of investment in the Middle East, startups and entrepreneurs would do well to take...

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ArabNet Beirut 2015

ArabNet Beirut is 3-day conference that will take place from March 17th till 19th 2015 at Hilton Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon. It will be...

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10 things MENA entrepreneurs learned about managing cash flow in 2014

Image source: smartwealthplanner.com (link) At the end of each year, we like to take some time out to regroup and go over the year’s m...

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What do you learn after running a startup for two years?

Whether you have a success or failure story as an entrepreneur, lessons will always be learnt. After cofounding Cobone, one of the...

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Winds of change: 4 major changes to the MENA ecosystem in 2014

2014 was certainly a year of impact for the entrepreneurial scene of the Arab region. From increasingly accessible money in the streets,...

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The growing m-health sector of the Middle East, too slow?

When the Arabic medical information platform AlTibbi accept their World Summit Award for best mobile medical content in February...

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MENA Spaces Challenge, Deadline January 12th, 2015

Zoomaal and Mideast Creatives have partnered up to launch MENA Spaces. The purpose of this initiative is to enable the establishment and...

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Why should fresh graduates choose to work for a startup?

Most of the region’s fresh graduates start their careers chasing jobs with big corporations, because they believe that will allow them to b...

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To be an entrepreneur rid yourself of illusions

Ali Elouafiq has cofounded, with Ali Lakrakbi, iMote, a connected device that help localize one’s cellphone and keys. Now, about to start a...

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The biggest opportunities for would-be founders in 2015

The best companies solve the biggest problems – the really hard ones that few people even know about, much less know how to tackle. T...

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Careem acquires Saudi-based home delivery service Enwani

For the regional entrepreneurship ecosystem the year is starting on an inspiring note. After the recent acquisition of Shahiya by Japanese...

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TOP Talks ME Conference

The Online Project announced the #TOPtalksME conference that will discuss all matters related to the Ice Bucket Challenge and learn how to...

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BuBleik's Book Club: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

BuBleik is a platform that provides the basic business services to quickly and easily start doing business in Lebanon. It recently started...

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twofour54’s Issa Aghabi talks funding and failure [Wamda TV]

Last month, at our final Mix N’ Mentor of the year in Dubai, we took the opportunity to talk to mentors about their particular areas of e...

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Startup-corporate partnerships 3/3: 6 success stories

Announcing the ShopGo deal In our series on startup-corporate partnerships we've looked at the logic behind the relationships, and why...

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Investor and entrepreneur Noor Sweid talks to Wamda about angel investing [Wamda TV]

At our final Mix N’ Mentor of the year in Dubai earlier this month we took some time to talk to the mentors about their particular areas o...

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Startup-corporate partnerships 2/3: why are there so few?

The second in our series of three articles looking at the intricacies of the startup-corporate relationship, we follow on from the logic...

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Traxn launches with Zain, call for applications now open for Jordanian startups

In the past few years, MENA startups and corporations kept their distance, holding on to the assumption that corporates are too...

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Top 10 MENA entrepreneurship quotes of 2014

2014 was quite a year for Wamda. We celebrated notable investments and acquisitions, we witnessed the launch of four big VC funds, we...

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LMTD's Will Hutson talks to Wamda about scaling service-based businesses [Wamda TV]

At our final Mix N’ Mentor of the year in Dubai earlier this month we took some time to talk to the mentors about their particular...

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Startup-corporate partnerships 1/3: the logic behind them

King Abdullah II of Jordan with Queen Rania at the opening of the MENA ICT FORUM in November. In the first of our three articles looking...

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Wamda launches Traxn: a program to help startups scale through large corporates

Before we take a deep plunge into 2015, Wamda is wrapping up its 2014 efforts by launching Traxn (pronounced traction), a new program,...

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4 big MENA VC funds announced in 2014

2014 was a very good year when it came to new funds entering the tech scene in the Arab region. Rather than just seed and early stage, we...

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Still fighting for the funding, hot topic at Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor in Dubai

On December 13 Wamda hosted it’s final Mix N’ Mentor of 2014 at the in5 Innovation Hub in Dubai. Hosting some of the city’s most active ent...

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