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Zain Jordan wants you to ditch your console and grab your phone
There isn’t a better example than Pokémon Go to highlight the crucial role of mobile in the gaming industry. Several of the game’s special features, such as the augmented reality and geo tracking,...
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App Lab kills cash at Egypt festivals
Festivals, be they music or other, are bedevilled by two problems: ticketing fraud and cash. Early last year the founders of a new music festival in Egypt, Oshtoora, were looking for a way to forego...
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Glassqube aims to be new piece in UAE startup puzzle
While there are far greater hardships in the world compared to starting your own business in the UAE it’s fair to say that the struggle is real, relatively speaking. Entrepreneurs Fahad Al Ahbabi and...
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Back from a brink, FREE
How do you bring yourself back from the financial brink and complete a water irrigation prototype? Antoine Skayem’s company, FREE (Free Renewable Electric Energy), had been operating for two years,...
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How to professionalize a startup without stifling it
This is an edited crosspost from Harvard Business Review. Insurgent companies are full of foundational stories and most of them involve heroics. They recall the times when the original team of...
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Amman Design Week 2016
A group of Jordanian designers and creatives with a passion for art, design and culture has brought us together to create a new and exciting initiative – Amman Design Week #ADW2016. Their aim is to...
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Startup Watch: Funerals, Telegram breach, and InstaSnap Feud
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 business. Here’s our wrap of what we’re reading on f-f-f-failure,...
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5 steps to ecommerce success in Gaza
It took five years for a small team of professional coders in Gaza to launch their own ecommerce solution Loqta, after noticing how much Palestinians liked to buy from social media sites rather than...
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Tamatem: Gaming for 18 million users
As global gaming publishers overlook the Arab region’s hunger for localized mobile games, regional publishers are not. According to Strategy&, the MENA game market reached $1.6 billion in 2014 and...
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AUB’s Innovation Center: a haven for ambitious minds
In the heart of Lebanon’s leading university overlooking the Mediterranean Sea is a center harnessing a future vision for the 150-year old institution. Walking into the third floor of the American...
View ArticleSeedstars Amman
SEEDSTARS WORLD IS COMING TO AMMAN TO FIND THE BEST STARTUP IN JORDAN On August 7th, Jordan’s best startups will compete to represent the country at the Seedstars World competition and win up to...
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Kuwait's ecosystem - from an investor’s point of view
This is an edited crosspost with two Nuwait articles. You can see the original versions here and here. Mussaad Al-Razouki is one busy man with an impressive resumé. The former oral surgeon is the...
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Wikilogia: The Syrian NGO that brought open source learning to Damascus
As the nearly six year war raged on in Syria, hundreds of entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts were quietly thriving in Damascus. They are led by Wikilogia, an NGO for open source learning and...
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Startup Weekend Youth Of Damascus
Despite all the hurdles and challenges facing Syrians during the past few years, a group of enthusiastic innovators managed to organize a third iteration of ‘Startup Weekend’, though this year it is...
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Turn8 announces new $60M VC fund
UAE-based accelerator and investor Turn8 launched a $60 million venture capital fund on Sunday for technology innovation. This new fund makes Turn8 one of the largest providers of seed capital in the...
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What's holding MENA's digital media market back? [Podcast]
This podcast has been crossposted from Wamda Capital. Digital media is a growing market, but the amount of education still required for brands - those who invest in the content creators - is holding...
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Abu Dhabi, MENA’s fintech oasis?
Fintech has been the subject of significant interest from entrepreneurs and investors alike in the past few years, and this interest shows no signs of waning just yet. The opportunity to lead fintech...
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How Morocco's Highness beat tall poppy syndrome
What to do when your team is too qualified, and too expensive, for your own country? Highness, a Moroccan user experience agency, decided to look for American clients. Hamza Labrinssi, a university...
View ArticleCan solar startups survive in Saudi?
Saudi is one of the top two markets entrepreneurs want to scale into, but being a primarily oil-based economy it may or may not be right for those working in solar energy. Ozan Sonmez, the manager of...
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Decorating Jordan’s homes with its trash
It all started in one of the oldest bookstands in downtown Amman when unemployed Alaa Ziadeh decided to build things... using his city's garbage. Ziadeh was frustrated and worn out of his spatial...
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