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First Annual MENA Tech Summit Launches in NY, for Investors and Entrepreneurs

David Teten

The MENA Tech Summit is a perfect complement to our annual ABANA Summit @ Bloomberg , bringing focus to this new area of growth both in the region and amongst Arab-American and other diaspora groups in the US,” says Zineb Guessous, ABANA Board member and Managing Partner of Almena Partners LLC and Africa Alternatives LLC.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. Awesome!

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. Awesome!

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Battery gives back to Israeli entrepreneurial community with venture creation workshop

VC Cafe

Danny is an entrepreneur, investor and Brown University Professor of Entrepreneurship , and has recently held similar workshops in China, Egypt and Portugal. The networking dinner that was held on day one was attended by the Israel-based Battery investment team and some of their portfolio company CEOs, including Pursway CEO, Elery Pfeffer.

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How Israel and the Arab World Connect Through Technology

David Teten

Back in early 2017, I worked with ABANA (network of financial professionals with ties to the Middle East/North Africa); Harvard Arab Alumni Association ; and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) to launch an annual Tech Summit in New York focused on the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”).

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