Entrepreneurship

My dear friend, and ex-colleague at N2V, @mrarrabi has published some thoughts on Wamda titled: “Is Venture Capital the right investment model for startups in the Arab world?”. Here is my feedback, hoping to start a constructive conversation about…

This is an old post that was published on Zawya’s Monthly Newsletter: MENA Private Equity Insight in last October. I just wanted to have it on my blog too. I hope you like it.

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Tonight I was invited to attend a new session of Amman’s Mini MBA Gathering that was started by Zaid Masri and some other activists. It’s a gathering of selective entrepreneurs who meet every week at Progressive Generations Studios office. They simply suggest an interesting Case…

This is a new post following the “A Week In” series that included: A Week in Silicon Valley, A Week at Harvard University, and A Week in Boulder. This time, the Tech Tourism Week was in what is being promoted by the UK Government as the Digital Capital of Europe, Tech City, in…

I happened to be in London this weekend after attending Endeavor Investor Network Event. So I was invited to attend SWLondon as a guest. It was a great opportunity to compare this same event with SWs of Amman, Cairo, and Riyadh as I was judge/mentor in them.

On my way to San Francisco to join Kauffman Fellows Program, I stopped in London as I was invited to become a member of Endeavor Global Investor Network, and participate in both: a round table discussion about the VC industry in the MENA…