Tags: entrepreneurship , businesses abroad , technology start-ups
Say we're cooking up a web start-up, first we need the following ingredients: Great Minds, Development Resources, Access to Capital, and a stellar Management team. Amman has all of the above but with some extras. The first extra is the sheer number of great developers. When I place a job ad here in Amman, I always get more than 100 applications (in one case it was close to 500). This is[...]
I recently attended the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Istanbul. While enjoyable on many fronts, what I was most struck by is the great equalizing taking place in the global technology/start-up scene and how I feel other industries will start to follow. Joe Biden, in his keynote address at the forum, rightly declared, "The next Steve Jobs could be a Turk or possibly come from the UAE." [...]