As you know I have a thing about finding out how is Entrepreneurship in parts of the World that doesn’t seem to have a “natural” inclination towards starting a business, I was very happy to find “StartUpArabia is a blog dedicated to new Arab technology startups and services, profiling and reviewing them, providing interesting market news and information, and sharing tips and advice for entrepreneurs.”
The blog covers interesting subjects from the following countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates.
I was initially attracted by the “Young Arab Leaders Launches Entrepreneurship Initiative”. The ‘Entrepreneurship Initiative’ aims to nurture innovation among young, small and medium entrepreneurs in the region and provide them opportunities for training mentoring and networking. Through the programme, they will learn from the experiences of other start-up and early-stage companies in the region and receive mentorship from YAL members.
“A Pilot Programme will be launched soon as the initial phase of the entrepreneurship initiative; During this phase, select entrepreneurs would be going through the outreach, assessment, training and access to funding of the ‘Entrepreneurship’ programme to prove the adaptability and compatibility of the initiatives’ strategy and working model to diverse scenarios. Entrepreneurs will be selected from diverse sectors in three pilot countries – UAE, Egypt and Jordan.”
The best way to check the quality and diversity of the information is browsing down from the homepage. Right now they are talking about trust in Arabian startups, Travel Yolk, Travel Industry Online Recruitment Portal, and have an Interview With Questler Founder Razan Khatib.
Interesting. Also found out that the biggest challenge for an IT start-up in the Arabian countries is funding and Inmature advertising market.
Here we go, http://www.startuparabia.com/
Also found out that the first issue of the Arabic edition of the well known monthly magazine Entrepreneur is published starting the beginning of June for the MENA region.
Johara Aletaishan, Chairperson of the new magazine, said:
“The aim of our new magazine is to promote the entrepreneurship culture among youth in the MENA region.
Neil Perlman, President of Entrepreneur Media Inc. – said :
“Entrepreneurial leaders drive economic success for themselves and their respective communities, and we’re pleased the first issue of Entrepreneur – MENA will carry this message to the region’s Arabic language countries. It’s invaluable for us to have the magazine’s message translated by Sawahel Al-Jazeera Ltd. to support young leaders in their entrepreneurial pursuits.â€
Source of the article about the Entrepreneur magazine here.
