Giving up on the quick buck

Company: Ounousa.com Country: Lebanon Industry: Media Founder: Elsa Aoun and Wassim Kari Established in: 2008 Number of employees: 10 Capital raised: Self-financed so far, seeking potential capitalization   Back in 2008, it all seemed simple for Wassim Kari and Elsa Aoun. They were studying business in France, had begun dating and were considering what to do with their lives. Then they attended a talk about making money from the Internet that seemed to offer them a path. Among the speakers was a French entrepreneur who had designed a website at the height of the 2000 dotcom bubble, ran it for a couple of years and sold her stake for millions of dollars. The largely Western-based bubble had made millionaires of hundreds of entrepreneurs and, the couple reasoned, it was only a matter of time before the Middle East had its own version — bringing with it the opportunity to make