Today At the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition Workshop session taking place in Abu Dhabi, Ken Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center shared some tips with the business plan's 50 Semifinalists, along with 20 Semifinalists from Global Innovation in Science and Technology (GIST) Competitio...


Many startups specially Arab ones underestimate the importance of public relations in branding their products and in marketing them. Take a look at startup weekends events in recent Arab countries, does anyone remember them or what they do? does anyone use them? where are they now?
Public relations is a cheapest way to market your products o...
Many entrepreneurs think the hard part of building a successful business is coding, while it is important milestone, but if no body bought it or used it, your startup will go no where.
Today we assemble a quick list in how to market your startup with zero ad spending, you are encouraged to tweet the method you found most effective and add yo...
I am some how late in posting part II of my review of Business Model Generation book, a book that helps you build business models for your startup, company or even understand your competitors business models as the book describes in details the rationale of how an organization, create, delivers and captures value.
In part one, we wrote an ov...
We are all used to photo tagging our friends on Facebook, but on Twitter that feature was not available, as we used different photo uploading and sharing sites built for Twitter such as TwitPic, yFrog.
TazPIC brings the tagging functionality to your Twitter photos, just signup with your Twitter ID, tag an exciting photo from your Twitter friends...
You’re an entrepreneur and just launched or want to launch the business of your dreams but don’t know the first thing about how to leverage the Internet to empower your business?
This series of guides is for you! This is the third part of our “Get on the Web: A Guide to the non-techie Entrepreneur”, and it covers why a having ...
You’re an entrepreneur and just launched or want to launch the business of your dreams but don’t know the first thing about how to leverage the Internet to empower your business?
This series of guides is for you! This is the second part of our “Get on the Web: A Guide to the non-techie Entrepreneur”, and it covers how you can setup you...
This Part 1 of a series of posts about using the web for the non-techie entrepreneur.
You’re an entrepreneur and just launched or want to launch the business of your dreams but don’t know the first thing about how to leverage the Internet to empower your business?
This series of guides is for you! This is the first part of our ...
Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit?
Are you constantly thinking about how to create value and build new business, or How to improve or transform your organization?
Are you trying to find innovative ways of doing business to replace old, outdated ones?
These are the questions that Business Model Generation book starts with. And if you an...
Update: as a result of this post ArabCrunch.NET was developed and launched in private beta to help Arab startups and help the region innovate, continuing ArabCrunch Mission.
In this post I would highlight a few points that I think can help in creating a vibrant startup-based IT sector in the Arab world. This came up to me in light of my... 


