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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

To tap this burgeoning market, companies should consider working with local partners who possess a more intimate knowledge of each market. By now, many would know that China is expanding aggressively to West Asian and North African countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Libya and Egypt.

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Most Overused Buzzword On LinkedIn Profiles? Creative.

YoungUpstarts

At least, that’s the consensus from professional network LinkedIn, who found that the description topped the list of the most overused words and phrases in its member profiles for 2012. Egypt: Multinational. Here’s a quick look at what the 2012 No. Brazil: Experimental. Canada: Creative. France: Responsible.

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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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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

In this area I’ve developed another philosophy that guides my investment decisions and forms a lot of the premise that I debate in our internal partners’ meetings when I’m advocating that we invest in a company. I call it “focus on basecamp, not the summit.&# I felt the exact same way when I was an entrepreneur.

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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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4 Networking Tips for New Nonprofits

Up and Running

For these reasons (along with many others), networking is one of the most important tasks for new nonprofits. My biggest challenge when starting a nonprofit was finding projects that made an impact with a reasonable amount of funding—networking was critical to its success. Trouble connecting. Getting to know you. Host an event.