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The MENA Startup Ecosystem

I keep hearing talk (mostly complaints) about the MENA Startup Ecosystem. Or in other words, how entrepreneurs cannot easily find funding. This is quite intriguing given the exponential number of VCs, Incubators, Accelerators, etc... currently mushrooming across the region! Now YES, the Ecosystem is still far from being as sophisticated as in Silicon Valley? But what do people expect? An overnight perfect system. I, for one, believe that all the necessary ingredients to success are here: talented entrepreneurs, probably the most cash rich region in the world and a tidal wave of goodwill underlying it all! Now that's a lot for a region that until recently was oblivious to Entrepreneurship. So here is my take: patience! All good things come in due time. Let the Ecosystem mature, i.e. natural selection of the fittest, and in time will emerge what I believe to be the single most attractive entrepreneurial sector in the world. Again: just a little patience.