Chances are, you are reading this article on your smartphone. Most men and women would sooner give up a romantic dinner or a weekend getaway than their mobile phones; mobile phones are omnipresent.  If you want to reach someone, the mobile device is the way to do it. 

The power of…

Almost anyone who has rented or purchased office space in Dubai can entertain you for hours with horror stories of the fit-out process.

In the sea of approvals, NOCs and MOUs required to get a business going in the UAE,…

You may have noticed a series of workshops that keep popping up at Shelter, all dedicated to supporting aspiring social entrepreneurs. These events are the work of a new community organization dedicated to making real positive change in the MENA region. As C3: Consult and Coach for a Cause enters into its fourth workshop cycle, we invited C3 blogger Tena Pick to share the organization's story and…

For the past month at Shelter Dubai, we have been hosting business law workshops for aspiring entrepreneurs. Workshops are led by Ludmilla Yamalova, the founder HPL Yamalova and Plewka, a JLT-based law firm specializing in employment law in the UAE. The final workshop, Commercial Real Estate Law will be held on Wednesday, April 10th at 6:30pm at Shelter Dubai. Below is a review of the first two workshops, held March 13th and March…

In this short series, we turn the spot light on small businesses and social enterprises that are inspiring entrepreneurs in the UAE. 

Our Road from Denial to Self Discovery - by Danish Farhan

Disruption Led by Pixels

Let’s face it: regardless of industry, globalisation punched each of us in the gut–and hard. The very nature of competition mutated—and not just in…

Are You a Maker?



Tinker with robots? Launch marshmallow rockets? Design your own clothes or cards? Invent things? Decorate cakes? Make mini-figurines? Well, then you are a maker! Makers can create things that are useful, fun, or just quirky.



And hundreds of Makers will…

You are making money in a business that you have started, either all by yourself or with a cofounder or two. You have a small but dedicated core of customers, but are ready to expand to a larger market. To do this, you…

On Sunday, January 20th, over 75 people arrived at Shelter Dubai for the New Entrepreneur Roundtable: The Creatives. Four creatives merging fashion with business acumen shared their experiences of starting up fashionably in the UAE.

Loretta…

The big neon sign on Sheikh Zayed Road caught my attention. “The World’s First Fully Sustainable Store.”



A billboard like that doesn’t make sense on the twelve-lane super highway. Along the endless bike paths of the Pacific Northwest, yes. But Dubai?…

The next stretch in your yoga class? The next stretch of your flight? The next stretch... of your mind?



Al Ain-based entrepreneurs Sajjad and Shahed Kamal hope so. As two of the co-founders of the web-based course-registration platform…

My mother, with the purse (and dog) in question.

The family dog lay happily in the middle of a mountain of discarded wrapping paper, and my mother squealed with delight as she added to…

This blog is part of the “Entrepreneurial Women” series. Each month, Shelter will interview groundbreaking female entrepreneurs who have grown successful businesses here in Dubai and in the broader region. Sometimes we’ll tell a story, sometimes we will bullet-list advice, and sometimes we’ll just let you know what these daring ladies are up to. Whatever the format, we hope you leave inspired!…

As an educator, I am drawn to stories of…

Introducing the “Entrepreneurial Women” series. Each month, Shelter will interview groundbreaking female entrepreneurs who have grown successful businesses here in Dubai and in the broader region. Sometimes we’ll tell a story, sometimes we will bullet-list advice, and sometimes we’ll just let you know what these daring ladies are up to. Whatever the format, we hope you leave inspired!

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The world needs to create more than 500 million new jobs by 2020 to provide career opportunities for the currently unemployed as well as young people who will be joining the workforce.  Enabling high-potential small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to grow to become large businesses is one of the most important mechanisms for solving the job creation crisis.

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12 startup culture secrets everyone can learn from

Reprinted from Angel Investment Network.  See original article here.…

Over the last decade, entrepreneurs working together have created a thriving tech sector in Argentina, a country Inc. Magazine calls "One of the toughest business climates on earth." How did they do it? What does this mean for other countries or regions that want to create thriving entrepreneurial sectors?
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Starting in November and running for three consecutive Saturdays, local entrepreneurs Rama Chakaki (Founder, Baraka) and Medea Nocentini (Founder, Consult and Coach for a Cause) will…

A year ago, Ali Razouk and Abdullah Khan were first year college students at UOWD with an idea and a heavy workload. Twelve months later, the computer science students are launching their first, independently developed mobile app to the Apple…