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9 Secrets for Replicating Silicon Valley's Success

July’s Global Innovation Summit (GIS) in Silicon Valley brought together 400 people to share ideas and on what makes a good s...

Ecosystem Innovation

i360 Hub Launches Traveling Accelerator for Idea Stage Entrepreneurs in MENA

Continuing the accelerator boom in the region, i360 Hub has launched a new seed funding program that pledges to take entrepreneurs from...

Accelerators Innovation Investment

Announcement Of The Top Arab Innovators 2012

The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab Region is organizing an event, in collaboration with MIT’s Technology Review, to announce the top A...

Innovation MIT

What's the Secret to Building an Innovation Ecosystem?

To build an innovation ecosystem out of nothing, it’s commonly believed there’s an unwritten recipe which goes something like this: first ta...

Ecosystem Innovation

Seems Awkward, Ignores the Rules, but Brilliant: Meet the Maverick Job Candidate

In a paper recently published in the British Journal of Psychology, Elliroma Gardiner, an organizational psychologist at the London School...

Innovation

Is It Easier for Copycats to Get Funding in Emerging Markets? Jon Grall at GEP Turkey [Wamda TV]

Jon Grall, former Senior Manager of Product Marketing at supercool Twitter-for-companies platform Yammer, and Product Lead at Dropbox...

Innovation Investment Mentorship

Get Up Start Up in Cairo: Alternative Education Wins the Day

El-Sawy Culture Wheel (SCW), the avant-garde capital of Cairo’s cultural scene, was the location of Cairo’s latest entrepreneurial com...

Accelerators Innovation Startup Communities

TEDxTanta Delivers Energy and Passion

As a Cairean I tend to think there’s little of interest in Egypt outside Cairo, and maybe Alexandria. So I was pleased to have my p...

Ecosystem Innovation Social Entrepreneurship

Yahoo! Acquires a License to Yamli’s Technologies

Today marks an important milestone in the life of popular Arabic language startup Yamli, as Yahoo! announces its acquisition of a license...

Innovation

Meet the Final 5 Teams in AUC's The Hit

80 teams entered AUC’s product innovation competition The Hit, but only 5 made it to the final stage. The 5 teams confirmed they will ...

Innovation

How to Design Better Customer Experience by Acting

Has designing your business service been entertaining? I was introduced to a quick, fun and effective method during Sarah Drummond’s s...

Education Entertainment Innovation

Creating a Culture Shift in Cairo

Fill a room with equal numbers of people from the arts, software developers, NGO volunteers, and business professionals. Now sprinkle some ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

Meet the Teams that Pitched at Cairo Culture Shift

The British Council Culture Shift event in Cairo this month brought together an interesting mix of teams and ideas: Competing ...

Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation

4 Ways to Create a Culture of Observation at Your Startup

Did you know that marketing directors at Google use physics to explain the fundamental theories of branding? That astronomers use software...

Innovation

Entrepreneur of the Week: Amr Shady of Egyptian Mobile VAS Service Company T.A. Telecom [Wamda TV]

This week's Entrepreneur of the Week is Amr Shady of Egypt-based mobile value-added service provider company T.A. Telecom. In a Skype chat...

Entrepreneur of the Week Failure Innovation

Egyptian Company KarmSolar Wins HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament 2021

The HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament, held this past Monday and Tuesday in Dubai, challenged entrepreneurs to produce innovative...

Green Energy Innovation Environment

Why Toolkits Are Essential for Innovation and Education

So how do you fit a cube-shaped canister into a cylindrical hole using only Moon rock plastic bags, cardboard, suit hoses, and...

Education Innovation

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...

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

TourTwist Puts Crowdsourced Spin on Tourism in Lebanon

Some startups don't just create commercial ventures; they work to turn communities of ordinary people into little engines of commerce....

E-commerce Innovation Travel

The 2-Minute Opportunity Checklist for Entrepreneurs

Cross-posted from Havard Business Review, March 4th, 2010. Okay, so you scored 17+ on the Isenberg 2-Minute Test, socked away...

Innovation

Nominate a Social Entrepreneur for an Ashoka Fellowship

Ashoka Arab World is looking for social entrepreneurs for its Fellowship program, who are social innovators with “System Changing Ideas” tha...

Innovation Social Entrepreneurship

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...

Angel Investment Innovation Investment

Lebanese Company I-DAW Innovates Faster Restaurant Service

Ordering food in a restaurant can be a tricky endeavor, with orders frequently getting lost in the chaos. The elimination of paper orders...

Innovation

Building a Creative Brand on Arab Pop Culture in Jordan

As the warm weather slowly returns, look out for what has become a seemingly ubiquitous feature of West Amman fashion: the Jo Bedu t-shirt....

Fashion Innovation

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