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. With successful tech businesses taking the world by storm with their fast growth, high return, and creation of specified jobs, it is little wonder that economies around the world are trying to create technological hubs of their own. Lebanon’s own have taken to this strategy, and in only four years have created a small startup ecosystem, which, though not limited to, is mostly focused on tech. Lebanon does not, at first impression, strike one as the place to start a business. Its internet is slow and costly, while its legislative and regulatory instruments are similarly sluggish. And as companies grow, they become further entangled in a corrupt system where bribes and patronage are the law of the land. [pullquote]The startup ecosystem in
