Opinions
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1.2KOpinion: How emerging markets are becoming the new center of gravity for venture capital
It’s official. We are now in the midst of a tsunami of IPOs and market cap creation, where scores of technology unicorns...
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1.2KOpinion: Here’s why Hollywood got entrepreneurship all wrong
Young people tend to fail at launching startups and – NO – you don’t need a genius idea to start a business....
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2.6KOpinion: Saudi banks should be afraid of Halalah, STC Pay and the likes
Five out of the ten largest Saudi companies in terms of market cap are the local banks. Two of these banks were...
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1.6KOpinion: Bootstrapping the startup is a better choice for tech founders than raising venture capital
It had been 2 months since I left the second company I founded, Numetric. In just 3 short years I’d built the...
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2.5KHow Careem has transformed the startup ecosystem of MENA
Last week was a major milestone for the region; the biggest acquisition in our history and a pivotal moment for our ecosystem...
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4.9KLessons learned from first year of building an enterprise SaaS startup
It has been eighteen months since my co-founder and I started our journey of building Magalix, a US-based enterprise startup that intelligently...
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2.4KWhat was 2018 like for the Pakistani startup ecosystem
It’s been an eventful past few months in Pakistan’s startup space. At the end of 2018, Sarmayacar (a venture capital fund led...
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1.2KOpinion: What General Atlantic’s recent $120 million investment in Property Finder means for MENA
General Atlantic (GA) led a $120m round of investment in Property Finder late last year. The investment hit the newswires and most...
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2.4KWamda X: Serving founders or regaining relevance?
Wamda, an important actor in the MENA startup ecosystem, has had a relatively quiet year and I suspect the leadership team has...