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Startup Watch: It pays to listen, no to networking and solar for Lebanon?
Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on how to approach networking in the most effective way possible, how we can be sustainable in our architecture and not sacrifice pleasure to do...
View ArticleAlex Geeks Meetup #6
Started by two friends with an ambition to create a local community of software industry enthusiasts, the sixth edition of Alex Geeks Meetup aims to bring a number of regional entrepreneurs to share...
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Hackathon seeks to boost tourism in Bethlehem
Nearly 100 people gathered for Palestine’s first tourism industry-led hackathon in Bethlehem on September 22. The three day event drew students from Bethlehem University and Palestine Ahliya University...
View Article8 lessons for new founders [Opinion]
In August I officially completed my first year of being fully dedicated to my food startup Yumamia. It’s been a year of hard work, long nights, excitement, stress, frustration and celebration. The...
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Scopio aims to become the Getty Images of social media
Social media has popularized videography and photography to an extent where 2 to 4 billion images are pushed out every day. Amidst the latest upheavals in the Middle East that began in 2011,...
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Favizone, the Tunisian big data company that's launching in France
What do you do after you’ve found success and sold your startup? Mehdi Khemiri’s answer was to pick a high potential technology and explore it until he could find a game-changing use for it. Six years...
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Replacing wood with straw, an Egyptian environmental solution
Egypt is brewing a number of entrepreneurial projects seeking to provide sustainable solutions for the manufacture of wooden furniture and décor from agricultural waste and environmentally friendly...
View ArticleWiSTEM 2016
Women are increasingly becoming the global driving force for economic growth and innovation, and WISTEM is celebrating the women leading the way for others in spite of all the odds. With over 100...
View ArticleIEEE 5G Summit
In order to engage industry members with high value and innovative technologies, IEEE Communications Society plans to hold a series of high impact one day summits in emerging technology areas like...
View ArticleMaking social pay, #MixNMentor Beirut
If you had a choice between having a $10 million business and being on the cover of Forbes magazine, or running a $50 million business and no one knowing who you were, what would you do? Sabine El Kahi...
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Don't hide your ideas, Andrew Hyde of Techstars [Q&A]
Andrew Hyde, Startup Week director at Techstars, is a globe-trotter with a mission: bridging the gap between community, technology and startups. Last month, he graced Lebanon’s ecosystem at Altcity’s...
View ArticleTurn8 Pre-Accelerator Program
The Turn8 Hub Pre-accelerator Program is a free 2-week intensive program from October 9 to 18 for technology startups in Bahrain. This training will provide entrepreneurs with all the tools necessary...
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Artificial intelligence startup wins at Jusoor competition
Arabot, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to build online Arabic chatbots, won first place at Jusoor’s third annual Entrepreneurship Bootcamp competition. “We want to build the first...
View ArticleMaghreb Game Conference 2016
Maghreb Game Conference is the first Moroccan conference and exhibition dedicated to the video game industry, taking place on October 15 and 16 at Technopark, Casablanca. The event is organized by the...
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Converting code quicksmart, scalable?
Hunched over his laptop in a hotel lobby, empty coffee cups and water bottles piled up on the table beside him, Jaoued Ahmed’s energy and excitement about his upcoming new product launch is infectious....
View ArticleSheraa Hub Launch
On October 5, 2016, Sheraa will be launching its new collaborative co-working space, Sheraa Hub, at the Library building in the American University Sharjah. The event aims to bring local entrepreneurs...
View ArticleCleantech startups in MENA face many challenges but remain resilient [Report]
MENA is experiencing some of the most daunting environmental challenges on earth. Energy and water scarcity coupled with an underdeveloped waste management infrastructure are stressing countries...
View ArticleDubai attracts global tech elite to Future Accelerators program
Dubai officially launched its Future Accelerators program on Sunday, following a $275 million pledge in August to address seven global challenges. The program, whose first 12-week round began on...
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From Bitcoins to footwear, opportunity drives David El Achkar
If you do a quick Google search of David El Achkar’s name, you’re likely to find the following article headlines: “Middle East entrepreneurs bank on success of Bitcoin” “David El Achkar wants to see...
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Braci capitalizes on Europe’s growing hard of hearing market
Anwar Al Mojarkesh has built up a long list of inventions that he sought to one day realise. One was a “dancing pillow” that would alert a heavy snorer that they were making too much noise, encouraging...
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