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 Ki being admitted to the Startup Sauna accelerator in Helsinki, Lebanese startups are increasingly showcasing their talents abroad. Closer to home, developments are also occurring, with a highly anticipated accelerator, Speed@BDD, finally launching at the end of the summer with plans to start the first batch of startups by early 2015 for a three month acceleration program. AltCity is also launching a bootcamp to help train entrepreneurs at the earliest stage of their ideas. These initiatives are adding to Lebanon’s existing infrastructure for entrepreneurship, whose usual suspects include the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab Region, Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program, AMIDEAST Entrepreneurship Institute, Berytech and Middle East Venture Partners. The first commercial bank investment
