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What it will take to have the middle east region create more startups:\n\n1. Entrepreneurs and avoid the fear of failures\n2. Infrastructure (internet, electricity, payments)\n3. Education\n4. Investments\n5. Social connector (this is an important one - almost always ignored - Geekwire used to this in Seattle, etc..)\n6. Exits. Hard to in our region with less M&A and IPOs but they will come with time.\n7. Alumnis network of successful startups\n\nGeorges is a software engineer that worked previously at Microsoft, Uber and Airbnb.\n\nHe is currently helping startups, writing a technical newsletter at https://www.softwareengineeringtidbits.com/ and teaching a cohort based software engineering course at maven: https://maven.com/georges-el-khoury/mastering-software-engineering