What it will take to have the middle east region create more startups:

1. Entrepreneurs and avoid the fear of failures

2. Infrastructure (internet, electricity, payments)

3. Education

4. Investments

5. Social connector (this is an important one - almost always ignored - Geekwire used to this in Seattle, etc..)

6. Exits. Hard to in our region with less M&A and IPOs but they will come with time.

7. Alumnis network of successful startups

Georges is a software engineer that worked previously at Microsoft, Uber and Airbnb.

He is currently helping startups, writing a technical newsletter at https://www.softwareengineeringtidbits.com/ and teaching a cohort based software engineering course at maven: https://maven.com/georges-el-khoury/mastering-software-engineering