{"id":276042,"date":"2025-12-02T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/?p=276042"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:11:12","slug":"scaling-up-the-mena-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/blog\/scaling-up-the-mena-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaling up the MENA ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cMindblowing  – but in a good way\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAbsolutely stunning\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPossibly the most unique training I have taken part in. The highs and lows of being a start up founder squeezed into two days.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery founder should have this!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just wrapped up an incredible two-day workshop on Scaling and Exiting for Founders\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf only I had attended something like this 20 years ago during my first venture\u2026 In just 16 hours, we covered what felt like a year\u2019s worth of founder lessons thanks to <\/em>Christian Rangen<\/em><\/strong><\/a> of <\/em>Strategy Tools<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and the team\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo days. High-impact insights. High ROI on time invested\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHelps founders focus on fundraising and its importance for success\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCapital structure matter a lot more than we think about in our day-to-day\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were just some of the feedback comments we received after a week in Dubai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our mission? Running five days of Scale Up MENA Masterclasses. <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
In close collaborations with many of the largest ecosystem players, including Dubai Future District Fund<\/a> , Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Campus – Dtec<\/a> , DIFC<\/a> , 1trepreneur<\/a> and Ignyte<\/a> , more than 150 people; founders, VCs, angels and ecosystem builders – all going throught the Founder’s journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What started as an idea, \u201cCan we develop a fully regional MENA version of Scale Up!?\u201d 12 months ago, is now a fully developed, fully proven advanced stage scale up program \u2013 and now completed seven programs with 250+ founders, investors and ecosystem builders. Next, we need to go from seven to 1.000 programs. Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Fundraising 101 at DIFC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scaling to IPO, with DFDF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of 48 team photos! Chris, Scott, Sanjana, Alain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Early-stage founders meet wide angle lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sunday, full-day Train-the-trainer at DFDF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Got an exit strategy yet?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Whiteboarding into 2026!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cMindblowing  – but in a good way\u201d \u201cAbsolutely stunning\u201d \u201cPossibly the most unique training I have taken part in. The highs and lows of being a start up founder squeezed into two days. \u201cEvery founder should have this!\u201d Just wrapped up an incredible two-day workshop on Scaling and Exiting for Founders\u201d \u201cIf only I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":276043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[20],"class_list":["post-276042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecosystem","category-strategy-simulation"],"authors":[{"term_id":20,"user_id":15,"is_guest":0,"slug":"christian-rangen","display_name":"Christian Rangen","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Christian-Rangen-profile-square.webp","url2x":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Christian-Rangen-profile-square.webp"},"first_name":"Christian","last_name":"Rangen","user_url":"","job_title":"CEO | Co-Founder","description":"Chris Rangen is a strategy advisor and business school faculty. He works with CEOs, companies, strategy leaders, ecosystem developers, innovation agencies, venture funds, national fund-of-funds and governments on their top strategy and transformation challenges."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276061,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276042\/revisions\/276061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276042"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategytools.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=276042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}