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How Innovation Can Help Frontier Markets

YoungUpstarts

Frontier markets are developing countries that are still too small to be considered as emerging markets. Such countries are sometimes labeled as emerging markets, but they are still less advanced capital markets in the developing world. The bottom line is that emerging and frontier markets are still different from each other.

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Why the Gig Economy is Coming for Architects, Engineers

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While western engineering codes developed gradually over the last century, developing nations adopted those codes and often used them as a basis for developing their own. In Lebanon, meanwhile, French engineering standards were used as the basis for the building codes as a remnant of colonization.

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Reducing Risk And Optimising Business Opportunity In The Middle East

YoungUpstarts

The Middle East and North Africa region ( MENA ) has been an expat hotspot for decades thanks in the main to the discovery and subsequent development and exploitation of oil. And they’ve assisted some major corporations and organisations do just that, such as Sony, BAE Systems and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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Mitsui Ventures Invests $3 Million in MoMinis

VC Cafe

Israeli startup Mominis has announced a second investment round of $3 million, led by Mitsui Ventures, BRM and existing private investors headed by Baruch Lebanon. Mitsui Ventures is a global venture capital fund based in Japan, providing seed and early stage capital for startups interested in penetrating the lucrative Japanese market.

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Mitsui Ventures Invests $3 Million in MoMinis

VC Cafe

I sraeli startup Mominis has announced a second investment round of $3 million, led by Mitsui Ventures, BRM and existing private investors headed by Baruch Lebanon. Mitsui Ventures is a global venture capital fund based in Japan, providing seed and early stage capital for startups interested in penetrating the lucrative Japanese market.

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Mitsui Ventures Invests $3 Million in MoMinis

VC Cafe

I sraeli startup Mominis has announced a second investment round of $3 million, led by Mitsui Ventures, BRM and existing private investors headed by Baruch Lebanon. Mitsui Ventures is a global venture capital fund based in Japan, providing seed and early stage capital for startups interested in penetrating the lucrative Japanese market.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started CedarLane Natural Foods over thirty years ago after emigrating from Lebanon to escape war and social unrest. So I took the leap, and left my day job to freelance part-time as an online marketer, doing everything from logo design to website design and development to social media consulting. Image Credit: Robert Atallah.

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