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Why Successful Startups Go To The UAE

YoungUpstarts

For an increasing number of successful startups, they are foregoing London, New York, or Silicon Valley for the business-friendly UAE. We all know the UAE is a business-friendly environment. But other emirates, such as Ras Al Khaimah , offer competitive advantages for founders and investors alike. There are a variety of reasons.

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Success Stories of Previous Winners at the Vernadsky Challenge

The Startup Magazine

More than 2 thousand pieces have been sold so far, with the distribution mainly in CIS, UAE and Germany. During the Vernadsky Challenge 2017 final round, Max Polyakov, Association Noosphere’s founder, admitted that this challenge wasn’t organized exclusively for the partaking teams.

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Learn And Adapt – Keys To Startup Success?

YoungUpstarts

There are literally thousands of companies from across the world, many of them from the United States, queuing up to start a venture in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the Persian Gulf. The UAE is also a gateway to the hundreds of millions of people making up the diverse populations of the Middle East and North Africa region.

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Mexican Food and Entrepreneurship for Lunch in Dubai

Feld Thoughts

I may not have a good recommendation on that but we at BECO would love to tell you all about this city’s history in person because the family of our founders have been living and working here for four decades. Now it turns out that you are visiting Dubai and looking for a history book. Dany, Amir, and Sorusch indulged me.

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The 50 Top Startups at SXSW 2019

Austin Startup

Artificial Intelligence 11 am Sunday, March 10 Finalists: DerqPrevent , Dubai, UAE Hendrix.ai , Edmonton, Canada?— ?Read Listed in alphabetical order by category name, here are all the participants for this exciting competition (along with links to their recent interviews on Medium). This page is updated daily as new interviews are added!

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My Water Pilgrimage:

Austin Startup

Right: Umesh, Founder of NEWAH. Men spend anywhere from 3–7 years in neighboring countries like Qatar, UAE, China, etc. I packed some Imodium and a sleeping bag, and I was on my way to Kathmandu. The men at NEWAH who work tirelessly to make water access a fundamental human right. Left: Mahesh, Program Manager.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

View from Seed

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. Shazam (GSB, Haas).