Weekly Wrap-Up: November 25-29

This week's posts were especially rich in legal advice whether it comes to setting up your business in Lebanon, or what it takes to boost...

Wamda • 29 November, 2012

Advice Angel Investment Arabic Content

Tenmou Gathers and Trains Arab and European Angel Investors in Bahrain

Tenmou, Bahrain's first business angels company, is quickly establishing itself as a leading player in Bahrain's entrepreneurship scene, as...

Leena AlOlaimy • 25 November, 2012

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

Tenmou's Second MENA Angel Investors Forum

The Second MENA Angel Investors Forum, hosted by Tenmou in association with Punchline Media, will be held in Bahrain on November 21-22, 2...

Wamda • 19 November, 2012

Angel Investment Conferences

Weekly Wrap-Up: October 21-25

In all of our articles about startups, it is obvious that mentorship (and finding the right mentors) is at the core of a successful...

Wamda • 25 October, 2012

Angel Investment CoE Cards Conferences

Weekly Wrap-Up: October 14-18

This week, our Weekly Wrap-Up features posts ripe in e-commerce information. Learn from others' experience is an especially sound piece of...

Wamda • 18 October, 2012

Angel Investment Animation Arabic Content

SILA Angel Investment Network Launches to Boost Entrepreneurs in Qatar

Silatech, a social initiative based in Qatar, has announced the launch of a new angel investment network, designed to open new avenues of...

Nina Curley • 15 October, 2012

Angel Investment Ecosystem Investment

5 Tips for Success in Egypt and MENA, from a Self-Made Innovator

Redg Snodgrass is an uncommon name for an out of the ordinary serial entrepreneur, or “funtrepreneur”, as he likes to call him...

Omar Aysha • 07 October, 2012

Angel Investment Ecosystem Egypt

SeedStartup's First Demo Day Reveals Global Products

There was a stark sartorial contrast between investors in suits and the more casually-clad entrepreneurs at the Make Business Hub last week...

Rania Habib • 04 October, 2012

Accelerators Angel Investment

Egyptian Social Gaming Startup FunWave Delivers Football Fun

Egypt is full of football fanatics, and the region is as well.  So it made perfect sense that Egyptian social games start-up FunWave’s ...

Omar Aysha • 16 September, 2012

Accelerators Angel Investment Egypt

The Cairo Angels Are Looking For a Few Good Startups

The Cairo Angels are here. No, it’s not a local remake of Charlie’s Angels (can you imagine), but a group of business angels based in Cairo ...

Omar Aysha • 09 September, 2012

Angel Investment Investment

15 Tips For Pitching to Investors from Culture Shift in Cairo

Karen McGregor, a social investor from the Scottish investment firm FirstPort, gave a workshop during the Culture Shift event about how to...

Omar Aysha • 14 May, 2012

Angel Investment Investment Negotiation

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...

Omar Aysha • 03 May, 2012

Accelerators Angel Investment Ecosystem

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...

Omar Aysha • 23 April, 2012

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

Creating an Egyptian Economic Miracle at Startup Nation 2.0

“The vision is to get Egypt into the top 10 list of countries by GDP in 5 years time.” This vision brought together around 50 progressive Eg...

Omar Aysha • 05 April, 2012

Angel Investment Innovation Investment

Angel Investment in MENA: What Works, What Could Improve

So you have been incubated for three months and you have built a solid demo. Unfortunately, your burn rates (negative cash flows) are...

Walid Sahawneh • 20 March, 2012

Angel Investment Oasis500

4th Oasis500 Angel Network Event

Oasis500 will be organizing the 4th Angel Network Event on Wednesday March 14th 2012 in Amman, Jordan, where entrepreneurs can meet to the...

Wamda • 16 February, 2012

Angel Investment

Regional

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...

Wamda • 31 December, 2014

Noor Sweid mix n mentor dubai Mix n Mentor

Watch the Livestream of Flat6Labs' 4th Demo Day

Curious about the latest round of startups coming out of Cairo's accelerator Flat6Labs? Tune in to the Livestream from their Demo Day,...

Wamda • 14 January, 2013

Accelerators Angel Investment Flat6Labs

Why startups should look outside of traditional VC funding for investment [Wamda TV]

Young startups shouldn’t get stuck looking for funding only from VC’s. There’s a world of opportunity in less traditional funding sources to...

Wamda • 22 July, 2013

Venture Capital World Economic Forum Advice

Lebanese Startup Kactus Reinvents the Mobile To-Do List [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, we chatted with Nadi Chemali, the co-Founder of Kactus, an iPhone app in Lebanon that...

Wamda • 12 March, 2013

Scaling Accelerators Angel Investment

How to Craft an Effective Pitch: Bill Morrow of Angels Den [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Bill Morrow, Founder of Angels Den, a leading angel and entrepreneur network in E...

Wamda • 17 February, 2013

Angel Investment Pitching

SILA Angel Investment Network Launch Event

On October 15th, Silatech is announcing the launch of SILA, an initiative aimed at transforming the startup ecosystem in Qatar by...

Wamda • 12 October, 2012

Angel Investment Mentorship