Wamda

Egypt

Pivots and failures: The Wasla Browser story

About nine out of every 10 startups in the Middle East fail, yet failure remains to be viewed with disdain. But with each failure comes an...

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi undergoes entrepreneurship drive but challenges remain

Saudi Arabia’s government is no stranger to technology or entrepreneurship. In fact, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, the...

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Lebanon

In conversation with Audrey Nakad of Lebanon's Synkers

Synkers is an online peer-to-peer education platform connecting private tutors with students. Founded in Lebanon by Audrey Nakad, Zeina...

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U.A.E

Endeavor Scale Up 2018

Scale-Up UAE is Endeavor UAE’s annual, scale-up focused conference, where some of the most promising entrepreneurs from the UAE and...

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U.A.E

FUTURE PROOFED - Ellevate Dubai 2018 Forum

If you're worried about how technology is going to disrupt your workplace or industry and want to find out what skills you need to...

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Syria

Startup Weekend Homs

Techstars Startup Weekend Homs is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of...

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U.A.E

Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival

Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival will bring together the some of the best and brightest of the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem, to...

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Egypt

RiseUp Summit 2017

RiseUp Summit is one of the largest entrepreneurship and innovation events in MENA, and it will be taking place on December 1-3 in...

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Saudi Arabia

Startup Saudi Arabia

Startup Saudi Arabia is a 3-day event that will include a conference, an exhibition, and seminars as well as short presentations for...

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Regional

Misk Global Forum 2017

Misk Global Forum is the flagship global platform of the Misk Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic foundation, aimed to...

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Regional

Will MENA’s on-demand startups become sustainable businesses?

On-demand startups, the so-called ‘Uber for X’ of startups, are those that provide immediate service by dispatching someone to...

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Global

Startup Watch: The vampire startup, the era’s new banks and the dark side of entrepreneurship

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Global

When less is more: The 10% entrepreneur [Podcast]

We’ve all met those entrepreneurs who brag about dropping everything just to follow their dream and start their own business. You...

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Tunisia

What I know about building an ecosystem from scratch: Wassel Berrayana

In 2000, Wassel Berrayana was an employee in HQ Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley’s companies, when he decided to leave his job...

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Regional

Bettina Bastian: What I know about having business ethics as an entrepreneur

A serial entrepreneur, German Dr. Bettina Basitan, has been interested in entrepreneurship and innovation since her college years and has...

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Global

Startup Watch: Game of Thrones’ princess-preneur, food on Mars, and hotel-tech

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Regional

Entrepreneurship is disrupting MENA’s real estate and retail gurus

The first half of 2017 was an exciting one for enterprises and startups in the MENA region with mega deals taking the ecosystem by storm....

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Lebanon

Endeavorize Lebanon

Endeavorize Lebanon will be gathering some of the region’s innovative leaders to share their journey disrupting industries, highlight...

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Palestine

Palestinian startups carving their ways around barriers to success

Running a startup in Palestine is no easy task. In addition to the fact that over 90 percent of startups anywhere fail, with financial...

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Regional

GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund - Round 2

The GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund provides selected startups from Africa and Asia Pacific with equity-free funding, technical...

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Regional

How talented is the MENA? [Report]

INSEAD Business School, Google and the Center for Economic Growth recently released this year’s edition of the Middle East and North...

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Global

Entrepreneurs Today, For Tomorrow - Winning as a Racehorse or Unicorn?

The Entrepreneurs Today, For Tomorrow event is a one-day conference which aims to bring a number of speakers to share and discuss what...

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Lebanon

The Transforming Power of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Lessons Learned

Cleveland State University and the Asher Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (ACIE) at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK)...

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Bahrain

Flat6labs and Al Baraka Banking Group to support entrepreneurs

Al Baraka Banking Group and Flat6labs signed an MOU to collaborate in a series of activities including creating the startup and...

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