Mercury News – Boosters say Middle East needs startups more than ever
Protests have also occurred in Lebanon, where Elie Khoury, 25, of Beirut, co-founded a startup called Woopra. We exchanged messages on Skype this week, and Khoury said the independence and innovative thinking shown by protesters bodes well for the region’s startup potential.
I hope his optimistic view turns out to be correct.“I think this is going to be positive for entrepreneurship in the long term,” Khoury wrote. “We should look at the bigger picture here. The Internet connection will not go down for so long. But what matters most is how active and initiative-taking the young people in the Middle East are.”
