How we chose the Top 20

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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.   Let’s face it: finding an entrepreneur in Lebanon is about as difficult as finding a new app in an app store, or a kaak vendor on a Beirut street. In the actual sense of the word, any business builder and enterprise risk taker can legitimately call themselves an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is definitely much broader than the combo of startup and tech as it is all too often perceived today. When Executive embarked on compiling the third edition of our Top 20 list, we were confident that it would be a breeze to produce a very substantial list. That, as you’ll see, was proven correct. At the same time, our ambition led us to tighten the search this year to companies and projects