Rabih Dannaoui sur Twitter : "Global Entrepreneurship Week #Lebanon starts today, check for events #GEWLeb2014 #GetInspired. Lebanon. Dannaoui : When will this come 2 #Lebanon? Going Down the Tech Rabbit Hole with Beirut’s Alice - Middle East Real Time. Help Rebuild Lebanon's Torched Library And Restore 10,000s of Lost Ancient Books | Ibrahim Sarrouj | Lebanon. At least 25,000 books burnt in an overnight act of violence Ancient books in a historic library in the Lebanese city of Tripoli have been torched by arsonists, after a pamphlet purportedly insulting religion was found inside one of the books. Security sources say that up to 78,000 books , many irreplaceable ancient Muslim and Christian texts and manuscripts, are now unsalvageable, according to Agence France Press. Read more at The Daily Star. Why this should concern you This library doesn't just concern the Father Ibrahim Sarrouj. This campaign doesn't have to do with any political/religious faction.
If we gather 10,000 lebanese to each just put in $5 we could easily reach the $50,000 and show the world that we, the people, are capable. How will the funds be spent? We are still evaluating till now the amount of damage that struck the library. Our minimum goal is to reach $35,000 as this will allow us to: However, we need much more to refill the library and make it better than before. ١. ٢. ٣. Dannaoui : Traveled to #TripoliLB #Lebanon... Rabih @ Safadi Center. Lebanon streamlines business startup procedures | Business , Lebanon. BEIRUT: Lebanon’s ranking improved in the World Bank’s Doing Business index after the country implemented a series of measures to make life easier for the private sector. According to the World Bank’s 2013 rankings, published in a report Tuesday, Lebanon came in 111th place globally, up from 115th place a year ago. The report said Lebanon succeeded in streamlining the business registration process, resulting in tremendous time reduction.
“Lebanon simplified the business startup process through the simplification of the formalities to stamp company books,” it said. It added that Lebanon slashed the cost of securing electricity by reducing application fees and security deposits for new connections. “Lebanon improved its credit information system by allowing banks online access to the public credit registry’s reports,” the report said. Taxpayers are now paying their dues with credit and debit cards issued by Lebanese banks. Deskplus.me Pre-launch Meetup Tickets, Tripoli. Invalid quantity. Please enter a quantity of 1 or more. The quantity you chose exceeds the quantity available. Please enter your name. Please enter an email address. Please enter a valid email address. Please enter your message or comments. Please enter the code as shown on the image. Please select the date you would like to attend. Please enter a valid email address in the To: field.
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And headlining the event: The band that was named as one of the most successful UK chart acts by the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums: “Skunk Anansie” One of the greatest rock voices ever performing all their classic tracks and their new album. For all rock lovers join us on the 2nd of July at the Beirut waterfront with the U2 Tribute and Skunk Anansie. Tickets prices: Standing: 40$ Reserved seating: 40$ – 55$ – 70$ Tickets are available exclusively at all Librairie Antoine branches: ABC Ashrafieh and Debayeh, Beirut Souks, Metro Jounieh, Bou Khalil Baadba, Dune Verdun, Achrafieh , Hamra, Sin El Fil, and AUB. Beirut Rock Festival 2013. Lebanese start-ups seek tech boom. Lebanon has long suffered with some of the slowest Internet speeds in the world, but a new crop of online entrepreneurs believes their country is primed for a tech start-up boom.
In the upscale Hamra district of Beirut, start-up "accelerator" Seeqnce has a second-floor office with a vibe and style that recall 1990s Silicon Valley. The office is open-plan, a main workspace ringed by meeting rooms that are named for and painted in bright colours. Ideas are scribbled in erasable marker directly onto glass table-tops or white boards, and there's a well-stocked shelf of alcohol that bolsters one employee's claim that Seeqnce "throws the best parties". Sitting at computers in the main room are some of the participants in the company's first-ever accelerator programme, a six-month effort to guide a group of eight budding Internet entrepreneurs from ideas to investment.
"They enter, they work with us in a boot-camp military fashion, and then they graduate and pitch to investors," he said. sah/dv/rl. Coming Soon | Zoomaal. Dannaoui : The real majority in #lebanon... Dannaoui : Want to live in #lebanon in... Ziad Mabsout - Global Shaper. 2U2C Presents: Beirut Rock Festival 2013. Bader Lebanon StartUp Cup :: Home. The Lebanese diaspora: A tale of two traders. Dannaoui : #Lebanon #Entrepreneurs win... Apply to DevAppLB PitchFest. North Lebanon Startup Weekend April 2013. Invalid quantity. Please enter a quantity of 1 or more. The quantity you chose exceeds the quantity available. Please enter your name. Please enter an email address. Please enter a valid email address. Please enter your message or comments. Please enter the code as shown on the image. Please select the date you would like to attend.
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Please read and accept the waiver. All fields marked with * are required. US Zipcodes need to be 5 digits. Presella - Events risk free. Rikbit | Find group activities to do in Beirut. How Startups Survive in Lebanon - Tech Europe. By Nick Clayton It is hard to be a tech entrepreneur in Lebanon. A BBC report at the end of 2011 quoted figures from speedtest.net which ranked the country’s broadband speeds as the lowest in the world, at number 186, behind even war-torn countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq.
And a one-megabit connection then cost $1,200 a month. The country’s problems do not end there. The government is working to improve the quality and cut the cost of Internet connections. According to Maroun Najm… there are some advantages to doing a startup in Beirut. Seeqnce is 18 months old. The first public cycle started last May. The Next Web: Lebanon is tough for tech entrepreneurs, but that’s not holding them back. Lebanon is Tough for Tech Entrepreneurs, but That Won't Stop Them. Editor’s note: While working at Buzzcar (Zipcar founder Robin Chase’s project in France) as community manager, Aline Mayard decided to go explore the Middle East.
She quit her job, and starting investigating society, innovation and change there on her travel blog: yallabye.eu. She’s sharing what she’s learned about local Web ecosystems on The Next Web. You can follow her on Twitter as @aline_myd or @yallah_bye. Is it possible to launch a start-up in a country with a shaky Internet, permanent risk of war, and no decent infrastructure? Lebanese are well-educated, sometimes trilingual, often very innovative.
But things are slowly changing: the government has passed a law which has improved the quality and price of Internet connections (still far from being good), and web and mobile entrepreneurship is finally taking shape. Optimistic graduates vs a risk averse society Recurrent wars and Mediterranean show-off mentalities have made the Lebanese poorly inclined to risks. DevAppLB Hackathon! (pre-launch info & registration!) - ihjoz - Buy and sell tickets on the web and mobile! YouTube. How to Get Startup Ideas. November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing.
Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way. Problems Why is it so important to work on a problem you have? Among other things, it ensures the problem really exists. I made it myself. Why do so many founders build things no one wants? At YC we call these "made-up" or "sitcom" startup ideas. For example, a social network for pet owners. The danger of an idea like this is that when you run it by your friends with pets, they don't say "I would never use this. " Well Imagine a graph whose x axis represents all the people who might want what you're making and whose y axis represents how much they want it.
Self Noticing Give yourself some time. Alfa to launch drastically faster 4G mobile data next year | Business , Lebanon. BEIRUT: Lebanon to deploy fourth-generation mobile ultra-broadband Internet access by 2013, telecoms operator Alfa said as it successfully completed a lab test on the 4G-LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology. During the test, unprecedented speeds reaching 100 Megabits per second were achieved, the operator said in a press release Thursday. “In parallel with the success ...
Alfa will be launching soon a three-month pilot phase on the 4G-LTE technology on 20 4G-LTE existing sites installed in Beirut,” the company’s statement said. “The pilot phase will include 300 participants, and it will span across a geographical area covering the administrative area of Beirut,” the statement added. The commercial launch of the fourth-generation data service will take place in 2013, the statement said. “Users will be able to access more advanced services such as watching an HD movie online,” he said.
Nmoawad : Everybody repeat after us,... الصيغة اللبنانية تنهار إلى أدنى مستوى لها منذ عام 1943. المحصلة! في أخطر منزلق منذ بداية الحرب الأهلية في لبنان عام 1975، استفاق المواطن اللبناني- عشية اغتيال رئيس فرع المعلومات اللواء وسام الحسن مع مجموعة من المواطنين الآمنين أو شبه لهم- على رائحة الدخان المتصاعد على طول البلاد وعرضها وعلى أزيز رصاص القنص والاشتباكات المتنقلة بين شمال البلاد وعاصمتها. الخلفية وتحاشيا للدخول في تحاليل سياسة تعطل بقصد أو بغير قصد مسار تحقيق شائك ومضنى أو معطل في جريمة الإغتيال، ومحاوله ربطه بكشف مخطط خارجي لتفجير البلاد، سوف يقتصر هذا المقال على توصيف المشهد الإقليمي والدولي كما مشهد النظام السياسي الطائفي اللبناني، الصيغة، بكل مكوناتها. هذه الصيغة التي، منذ نشأتها مرورا بعام 1958، تستجدي طاقات المخرجين الأجانب للعب دور الكومبارس على مذبح الوطن.
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