Innovation Live! Summit
The ‘Innovation Live! Summit’ is anticipated to be one of the Middle East’s most dynamic B2B and B2G innovation summits. Happening during UAE Innovation week, the summit will serve as an anchor...
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Wadi's PR pitch to disappointed gamers
Ecommerce platform Wadi is using the worldwide fallout from a much-anticipated game as a way to boost customer loyalty in their UAE and Saudi Arabia markets. For the last few weeks the global gaming...
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3 failures and a job: how Bio Energy Egypt hit success
Bio Energy Egypt founder Mahmoud Galal failed three times and took a corporate job before he succeeded at being an entrepreneur. But all it took was a little luck, a big contract, and that experience...
View ArticleWhat I know about bootstrapping hardware: Luke Iseman
For years now the Lean methodology has been all the rage: bootstrap, get a viable minimum product, ship it without further ado, see the reaction, adapt, see the reaction, adapt, continue until you’re a...
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Amman Design Week breathes life into the city and its people
Amman is a city of concrete. There is barely a body of water or extensive greenery. It is arid, hilly with very little vibrant color. So when 100 designers came together to bring life and color to the...
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Sparks fly when girls meet tech [WamdaTV]
It’s not up to young women to be interested in technology, but up to their teachers to find ways to make the subject appealing to them, says Junkbot CEO Ehteshamuddin Puttur Abdul. It’s a fresh way of...
View ArticleThe complete list of Egyptian startup investors
There are 16 different investors to whom Egyptian entrepreneurs can pitch their product. Since 2015, a number of investment deals have been sealed in Egypt including price comparison site Yaoota,...
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Why do Middle East startups ignore Maghreb?
What does a person in Doha have in common with a person in Tunis? Not much, especially when it comes to online services. As much as media, business people, and Wamda love the concept of MENA region, it...
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Powering up your beach experience
Growing up in a country that sits along the Mediterranean coast, the beach is staple in the country’s summer activities. For many, however, it’s also a drag with a ton of inconveniences. And for...
View ArticleThe secret toll of entrepreneurship
Ali Chehade-Farhat’s Facebook page reads like the textbook success story every entrepreneur wants to have as their own. On one day he’s getting ready for an important conference, and another day he’s...
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The top 10 games of Game Zanga 6
For the sixth year in a row, game developers across the MENA region got a chance to flex their creative muscles and engage in a bit of friendly competition through the Game Zanga game jam, organized by...
View ArticleGE Egypt Digital Innovation Challenge
General Electric, in partnership with the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC), has launched the GE Egypt...
View ArticleVinli, now part of the US vehicle supply chain
Just 10 months after Vinli started shipping their connected car platform, the connected car startup has announced a partnership with a power house for automotive brands in the US. Their alliance with...
View ArticleStartup Watch: glass ceilings, Gods and Men, and death to the MVP
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/VC fund/incubator. Here’s our wrap of what we’re reading...
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Beirut-based Myki launches authentication solution at Techcrunch Disrupt
Take 5,000 plus attendees, a gigantic waterfront pier and some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, and you get Techcrunch Disrupt San Francisco. The conference’s Startup Battlefield was one of the...
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A fractal view of event technology
Fractal Systems is a Dubai based company loading up exhibitions, airports, and event venues with samplings of holograms, drones, sliding screens, and soon, robotic arms. Founded in 2011, Fractal’s goal...
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From droid farmers to gamer therapists: why we can’t prepare students...
This article is a crossposted with Medium. I recently reread To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. There’s one part in the book that I didn’t catch the first time around, but it really resonates with...
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Itworx Education glocalizes e-learning in EMEA and beyond
In 2003 Itworx Education was officially established as a division of its much older parent company, Cairo-based IT service firm Itworx. At the crux of its strategy was a focus on on-boarding...
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AUB students Reboot Beirut at hackathon
“The moment you realize that you can build and change things, you see something sucks and you do something about it, build a company, hire people, and then there’s no going back,” said Habib Haddad,...
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What I know about assessing startups for potential investment: Fadi Bizri
It can be difficult to find the right investor for what you know is a solid idea. But if the meetings with an investor drag on, you may start to wonder 'what am I doing wrong?’ Fadi Bizri might know -...
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