Lebanon lags behind much of the world when it comes to a favorable business environment, ranking 111th out of 189 economies in the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) 2014 ‘Doing Business’…
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Maha Arayssi Rifai and Mohamad Arayssi were recently selected to join Endeavor’s network at the non-profit’s latest International Selection Panel in Dubai. The brother-sister duo founded the personal-care products company…
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Over the course of the three-day ArabNet conference in Beirut, many startups got on stage for the daunting task of pitching their idea to a room full of investors, businesspeople,…
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Mike Butcher is the editor-at-large of TechCrunch, the world’s largest online source for technology and startup news, while he is also invested in numerous educational initiatives in the UK that…
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Last August, after much speculation Banque du Liban – Lebanon’s central bank – released Circular 331. The $400 million plan aimed at encouraging the country’s start-up sector by guaranteeing 75…
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Lebanese venture capital firms (VCs) could not be more pleased. Following Circular 331 passed last August by Banque du Liban (BDL), Lebanon’s central bank, to ‘de-risk’ commercial banks’ investments in…
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With entrepreneurship becoming something of a buzzword in the Middle East, it would be easy to assume that it is booming. But while support for new companies is certainly growing,…