Kuwait Getting them young: empowering Kuwait’s youth entrepreneurs This article has been crossposted from Nuwait. Two organisations, one local the other not, are trying to give Kuwait's young people... Reine Farhat • 28 June, 2016 Injaz Nuwait sirdab lab
U.A.E Dubai: a city built on data [Wamda TV] Cities are not built on a whim, but today a new kind of data is used to sculpt modern metropoli from the bare bones of steel and... Rachel Williamson • 28 June, 2016 cellular data Dubai du
Egypt How the Arab Spring planted seeds of innovation in Egypt [Podcast] This podcast is a crosspost with Knowledge@Wharton. The 2011 uprising in Egypt that saw the overthrow of longtime President Hosni... Knowledge @Wharton • 27 June, 2016 philanthropy Ahead of the Curve Egypt
Eventtus founder meets Obama “It’s a good looking group,” said US President Barack Obama, as he introduced four entrepreneurs to an audience at the... Lucy Knight • 27 June, 2016 Mai Medhat Global Entrepreneurship Summit President Barack Obama
Regional When MENA investors don’t bank on women For years, Lebanese entrepreneur Rayan Zahab would get called in for job interviews, only to hear hiring managers say the same thing: they... Brooke Anderson • 27 June, 2016 Golden Seeds Snapay Women Investing in Women Digital
U.A.E Startups, compete at your own risk Be it money, equity, consultation, incubation or simply a platform to fine-tune the elevator pitch, startup competitions have manufactured... Archana Menon • 26 June, 2016 Arab Start Up competition Startup MENA GCC Pitch Challenge Dubai+Acumen Business Plan Competition
U.A.E From buyouts to partnerships This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. More than half of all corporate-startup initiatives in MENA were... Teeb Assaf • 26 June, 2016 Collaborative Entrepreneurship Dubai Expo 2020 GE
Bahrain Skip ahead: Skiplino wants to put queuing behind us According to a Lebanese Central Bank official at the Arabnet Beirut summit this year, the Lebanese enjoy queuing in banks and use the... Eman Mostafa • 23 June, 2016 Skiplino LevelZ SAAS
Maghreb Propertyfinder buys Morocco-based Selektimmo The list of Moroccan platforms looking to benefit from the online real estate boom is long. Over a year ago, we wondered if... Aline Mayard • 23 June, 2016
Regional Share the love with a stock option pool [Opinion] Building a startup is a team effort, so it’s only fair that the team you share your entrepreneurial journey with also shares in some... Tamer Azer • 23 June, 2016 SOP Stock options A15
Lebanon Lebanon’s Pinpay, ready for the big time In 2013 mobile bill payment platform Pinpay had to make a decision: shut up shop or start again from scratch. They went with the latter.... Lucy Knight • 23 June, 2016 Lebanon Central Bank Regulations Bankmed
Syria Syrians seek refuge in tech For a while, it seemed that the Syrians were running out of options. For the fourth year in a row since 2012, the UN reported a steep... Maysaa Ajjan • 22 June, 2016 community jameel MIT Media Lab syria
Maghreb For a night, Maghreb joined forces to solve their social problems What if Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia joined forces to solve their social problems? It’s a germ of an idea that a small number of... Yassine Bakir • 22 June, 2016 algerian startup initiative espace bidaya Lab'Ess
Palestine Scarcity fuels Gaza hardware invention boom Following the successful Bold Knot crowdfunding campaign* in 2015, Gazan entrepreneurs have started pursuing their own hardware... Rafat Abushaban • 22 June, 2016 Sketch Engineering The Explorer Robot Taawon
Egypt Egypt's Smart Care secures $1.2M from major foreign donor A major foreign donor has invested $1.2 million in Smart Care Medical Services, a digital healthcare management startup. The deal,... Rachel Williamson • 21 June, 2016
Regional How can startups build successful collaborations with corporations? This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. Collaborative entrepreneurship initiatives are trending and an... Jana Kassem • 21 June, 2016 Coentrepreneurship Expo 2020 Dubai CE
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