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Lebanon

Banque du Liban Accelerate 2016

Against all odds, Lebanon is developing a highly innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem. With a growing number of incubators, accelerators...

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Lebanon

Reboot Beirut hackathon features seasoned student entrepreneurs [Wamda TV]

Over the past decade, there have been countless news stories pointing to a rise of student entrepreneurship globally. Lebanon is no...

Reboot Beirut aub student entrepreneurship

Lebanon

From Bitcoins to footwear, opportunity drives David El Achkar

If you do a quick Google search of David El Achkar’s name, you’re likely to find the following article headlines:...

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Lebanon

Don't hide your ideas, Andrew Hyde of Techstars [Q&A]

Andrew Hyde, Startup Week director at Techstars, is a globe-trotter with a mission: bridging the gap between community, technology and...

Andrew Hyde techstars Startup Weekend

Lebanon

Making social pay, #MixNMentor Beirut

If you had a choice between having a $10 million business and being on the cover of Forbes magazine, or running a $50 million business and...

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Lebanon

Growing organically in Lebanon can be tough

Reema Mansour Maamari challenges you to make your own granola. “Why shouldn’t you make your own granola? It’s so easy. If...

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Lebanon

Launch Summit experts advise entrepreneurs to begin with solving local problems

“Right now is a good time to be an entrepreneur… Ten years ago, if you said you’re an entrepreneur people thought you...

Launch Summit Altcity techstars

Lebanon

What I know about assessing startups for potential investment: Fadi Bizri

It can be difficult to find the right investor for what you know is a solid idea. But if the meetings with an investor drag on, you may...

Fadi Bizri B&Y Venture Partners B&Y Venture Partners

Lebanon

AUB students Reboot Beirut at hackathon

“The moment you realize that you can build and change things, you see something sucks and you do something about it, build a company,...

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Lebanon

The secret toll of entrepreneurship

Ali Chehade-Farhat’s Facebook page reads like the textbook success story every entrepreneur wants to have as their own. On one...

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Lebanon

Powering up your beach experience

Growing up in a country that sits along the Mediterranean coast, the beach is staple in the country’s summer activities. For many,...

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Lebanon

Start Your Own Business Workshop

The Amideast Entrepreneur Institute is launching its upcoming ‘Start Your Own Business’ workshop. The workshop is...

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Lebanon

Wamda and AUB organize their first hackathon

Experimentation and evolution are best nourished within the walls of university campuses. Lebanon is no exception. In this context...

AUB Hackathon hackathon aub

Lebanon

Kids Genius: a young makers heaven in Lebanon [Video]

At Kids Genius, the boring connotations of the word ‘education’ is masked by a sense of creativity and fun. This classroom...

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Lebanon

What I know about lying: Jonathan Choufany

Lies fascinate us. Children experiment with them, white lies are essential for smoothing the bumps of everyday life (your grandmother...

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Lebanon

LAUNCH Summit 2016 - Lebanon's Early Stage Startup Conference

AltCity is hosting the first EuroMENA early-stage innovation conference on September 22 at ESA in Clemenceau,...

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Lebanon

Reboot Beirut: shaping the future of communities #RebootBeirut

What's the one thing you'd want to change about Beirut? On September 16-18, Wamda and the American University of...

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Lebanon

Quanergy raises $90M in Series B funding

Equiped with Lidar technology. (Image via Quanergy). Quanergy Systems has raised $90 million in a series B round, led by Sensata...

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Lebanon

5 Lebanese food startups

Every Arab country likes to call itself the best food culture in the region. We’re not about to start splitting hairs on who...

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Lebanon

Lebanon's droid-maker: Innovo breaks into hi-tech manufacturing [Wamda TV]

Innovo is one of the few independent precision manufacturing workshops in the region - this means robots, high tech circuit boards, and 3D...

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Lebanon

Seedstars Beirut 2016

Seedstars World is coming back to Beirut! On October 13 2016, the 10 best startups from Beirut will be invited to pitch in front of an...

Lebanon

Asmahan Zein shares the highlights of her journey [Wamda TV]

Asmahan Zein founded and built data management company Infofort in Lebanon after working for 27 years at Aramex. She’s the...

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Lebanon

Mix N' Mentor Beirut 2016

Wamda is organising Mix N’ Mentor Beirut on September 30th at the Beirut Digital District (BDD). Beirut is rapidly...

Mix n Mentor beirut

Lebanon

AUB’s Innovation Center: a haven for ambitious minds

In the heart of Lebanon’s leading university overlooking the Mediterranean Sea is a center harnessing a future vision for the...

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