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#5 - Startups in Lebanon with Maysaa Ajjan
About this episode
Today’s episode is with Maysaa Ajjan, a journalist at Arab News. We have discussed the following topics:
- Her contributions to Al Annahar on the “Startup City” segment
- How Arabnet had the ability to track some startups in details
- Funding mechanism for startups from BDL (circular 331), bootcamps, competitions, and angel investing
- Lebanese startups conditions before the 2019 economic crisis (failed, operating, exited, migrated)
- Lebanese startups conditions after the 2019 economic crisis
- Fundings
- Migration of talents and startups
- The rising new economy of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin being used in current Lebanese startups
Audio version of the episode is available on: https://www.reconfigured.stream
Video version of the episode is available on: https://youtu.be/RNDs4ki0YtY
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