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Solar energy and beyond
This company is part of Executive’s Top 20 in science and technology. Read more stories of our special report on entrepreneurship in Lebanon, as they’re published here. Yelloblue Antoine Kaldany...
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Focusing on the foundation
This article is part of an Executive special report on entrepreneurship. Read more stories as they’re published here, or pick up November’s issue at newsstands in Lebanon. When I was asked to write...
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Beyond the lira
This company is part of Executive’s Top 20 in science and technology. Read more stories of our special report on entrepreneurship in Lebanon, as they’re published here. Yellow Distributed...
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Promising outlook
Lebanon’s entrepreneurial landscape has been maturing in recent years, as witnessed by the emergence of highly motivated youth, the growth of the venture capital industry, and the creation of...
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Positive steps
Entrepreneurs have had a good year in 2014. With the eTobb team being admitted to Mountain View’s 500 Startups, considered to be one of the top accelerators globally, and with one of the cofounders of...
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In comes the money
As of this year, startups in Lebanon will no longer have to complain over a lack of investors willing to give them cash in exchange for equity stakes. There are several new venture capital (VC) funds...
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Getting hands on
Just as Lebanon’s startup ecosystem is growing, so is the diversity of its funding sources. Abdallah and Ghaith Yafi are the brother duo behind Y Venture Partners (YVP), a new, early stage investment...
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Positive shock
Likely due to some well publicized successes, the concept of startup acceleration has spread like wildfire over the past decade. This idea — nurturing nascent innovators for a small slice of the pie —...
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A hellish limbo, a darker future
There’s nothing like entrepreneurial energy — if it’s there, you feel it as soon as you walk in the room. That’s what I felt when I recently addressed the Start Up Lebanon conference in New York. The...
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A need to even the playing field
Recently, CEOs of high growth companies were asked by Inc. magazine to pick their most admired entrepreneur. It turned out that the majority opted for Elon Musk (founder and CEO of Tesla Motors and...
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The will to prevail
In 2015, many of the reasons behind Lebanon’s built-in logjam came to the surface. The garbage crisis is the case in point that best illustrates how the whole system is rotten to the core. Beyond our...
View ArticleTaking the plunge
Fourteen years ago, a well-intentioned financial advisor asked me if I liked to take risks. I put on a wicked smile and replied, “My slippers have non-skid soles.” Before I was an entrepreneur, I led a...
View ArticleYou can’t handle the truth
Our naive and simple minds have proven time and time again to be susceptible to transparent excuses. They shield us from accepting the facts on the ground and allow us to orbit in an imaginary reality...
View ArticleAn interview with Bookwitty chief executive Cyril Hadji-Thomas
To understand as much as possible about the inside perspective and mindset related to the first high-profile failure of a Lebanese startup, Executive sat down with Cyril Hadji-Thomas, the stakeholder...
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12 new Lebanese startups
In previous years, attending a startup demo day in Beirut—where hopeful graduates of accelerator programs present their projects and pitch for recognition and financial investments—tended to require a...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship and youth in lebanon
Lebanon may be officially classed as an upper-middle-income country by the international community, but it lags far behind other countries of a similar status. Serious deficiencies in the dynamics of...
View ArticleSocial entrepreneurship in Lebanon
Anyone with any knowledge of Lebanon knows that the country is perpetually described as teetering on a cliff’s edge, frequently stuck in political stalemate, and with infrastructure that leaves much to...
View ArticleIn comes the money
As of this year, startups in Lebanon will no longer have to complain over a lack of investors willing to give them cash in exchange for equity stakes. There are several new venture capital (VC) funds...
View ArticleGetting hands on
Just as Lebanon’s startup ecosystem is growing, so is the diversity of its funding sources. Abdallah and Ghaith Yafi are the brother duo behind Y Venture Partners (YVP), a new, early stage investment...
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