Entrepreneurship
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147.7KA15 invests in Egyptian buy now pay later platform Sympl
A15, a leading venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region, has announced it is the first investor in one of...
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7.4KDubai to create creative and economic free zones in universities
Sheikh Hamdan, the Crown Prince of Dubai has approved a new strategy to create economic and creative free zones in public and private...
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18.3KHuda Beauty: the billion-dollar Dubai-based business that started with a simple blog
Huda Kattan has become a very popular name among women in the Middle East (and beyond). The 34-year-old social media influencer co-founded...
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7.1KPredictions and Expectations of MENA VCs for 2018: DASH Ventures’ Omar Sati and team
Amman-based DASH Ventures is one of the leading VC firms of the region. Founded in 2011, the firm has companies like Jamalon,...
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5.2KWhat Seedstars learned about different startup ecosystems of MENA by traveling around the region
Oceans of sand, pyramids, camels and shiny super-cars. This is what comes to mind when somone thinks of Middle East and North...
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6.3KHow to build a startup without quitting your day job
Question: What do Craigslist and Albert Einstein have in common? Answer: Their big idea started as a side project. 1905. Albert Einstein...
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4.3KFounders of Egyptian Streets make the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list for Media & Marketing
Mohamed Khairat and Mostafa Amin, founders of Egyptian Streets, one of the most popular online English news platform in Egypt, have been...
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7.1KHow entrepreneurship can build peace in conflict zones
More than 150 startups were created in Syria last year—from BitCode, a platform to teach youth how to code in Arabic, to...
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7.3K9 things I have learned about running accelerators and incubators
I have had the chance to manage different incubation programs during the last few years at Cairo University, INJAZ Egypt. During these...