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Lebanon

What does Beirut Digital District’s 15-year plan look like? [Wamda TV]

Hosting a good number of VCs, accelerators, incubators and startups, Beirut Digital District (BDD), which was launched in 2012, has rapidly...

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Lebanon

Facebook Partner Developer Workshop

Beirut Digital District in collaboration with Facebook, invite you, your teams and your extended network of startups and entrepreneurs to...

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Lebanon

Mix N' Mentor Beirut 2017

The Lebanese startup ecosystem had witnessed a series of game-changing initiatives that promise to boost many of the country’s...

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Lebanon

Region’s first shared electric scooter service launched in Lebanon

In a country where public transport has always been a hassle, and where traffic jams are a daily companion, an innovative approach to...

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Lebanon

Beirut Digital District expanding into work, live, play neighborhood [Wamda TV]

Lebanon’s Beirut Digital District is the epicenter of the country’s ecosystem. Launched in 2012, it hosts dozens of startups,...

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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...

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Lebanon

Kwik emergency response sensor wins refugee hackathon

Fire and freezing cold are potentially fatal for refugees, but they are dangers which could be over due to 'emergency sensor'...

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Syria

Bridge to success: six tips for Syrian entrepreneurs from Jusoor

From the left: Moderator Karim Samakie with speakers David Nabti, Habib Haddad, Aurore Belfrage and Rama Chakaki. (Images via Maysaa...

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Lebanon

What I know about life: Nicolas Sehnaoui

(Image via mpt.gov.lb) Instrumental in the creation of the Beirut Digital District, bringing Lebanon ever closer to faster internet and...

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Lebanon

Marketplace Edition pulls in the entrepreneurs for Mix N’ Mentor Beirut

Getting to know you. Mix N' Mentor Beirut kicks off. (Images Wamda with Sam Fakhoury) Not too far from the location of recent...

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Lebanon

How a physical space like BDD is supporting entrepreneurship in Beirut [Wamda TV]

Lebanon is infamous for the horrible state of its internet. Yet, the tiny country is home to more than 1,500 ICT startups. How did...

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Lebanon

Beirut gets new tech accelerator, Speed@BDD

CEO Sami Abou Saab during a meeting at the Speed@BDD offices. (Images via Maya Rahal) Yesterday, a collection of Beirut’s entrepreneurial e...

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Lebanon

The Chile Connection: lessons for Lebanese entrepreneurs

The Chileans in Beirut. (Image via BDD) For 17 years Chileans endured a right-wing military dictatorship that saw more than 3,000 people...

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Lebanon

Mix N’ Mentor brings the Marketplace edition to Beirut in September

Pensive in Beirut, Mix N'Mentor in September 2014. Considered as one of the most innovative cities of the MENA region, Beirut is getting...

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Lebanon

What does it take to make it in the Lebanese ecosystem?

There was plenty to discuss at Energy Boost. (Images via Facebook) How do you make it big in a country like Lebanon? How do you...

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Lebanon

Beirut gets a new accelerator, UK Lebanon Tech Hub now open

A giant Twitter deck at the UK Lebanon Tech Hub. (Images via Lucy Knight) Standing on a podium in a carpark in a fast sweltering Beirut,...

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Lebanon

Beirut Service Jam 2015

The Beirut Service Jam is the Lebanese edition of the Global Service Jam. The global event is coming this year to Beirut on February 27th,...

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Lebanon

Innovation fills the prescription: 6 tips on building a wearable from CardioDiagnostics

Most of the entrepreneurial activity in the region focuses on ecommerce or online services, and software development and services...

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Learn and adapt: Lebanon's Sociatag shows us how it's done

If you’re active in the Lebanese startup ecosystem, then you’ve probably already met the young entrepreneur behind Sociatag, the social int...

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Lebanon

PinPay leads mobile payments trend in Lebanon

Mobile phones in emerging markets are still widely used for texting, making phone calls, taking pictures, reading news, and using...

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5 tips to start thinking creatively

We hear a lot about creative thinking, but what does that really mean? Lebanese startup Innovo has one idea. The Lebanese...

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Weather-based clothing suggestion app wins Altcity’s 12 hour hackathon

Last Sunday, May 3rd, the Beiruti co-working space Altcity.me organized a DevAppLB Ultralight 12-Hour Hackathon, at the Beirut...

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Lebanon

AltCity organises a 12-Hour hackathon to build ultralight application

Altcity.me is organizing DevAppLB Ultralight 12-Hour Hackathon, on Saturday May 3rd from 9am to 9pm at the Beirut Digital District...

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Lebanon

Apply to UK Lebanon Tech Hub's second cycle

The UK Lebanon Tech Hub Accelerator is currently accepting applications for its second 2016 cycle. TechHub has been...

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