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

AskDeveloper Podcast

EP79 - AskDeveloper Podcast - ازاي يبقى عندنا شركات ناشئة أكثر مع جورج الخوري

Weekly Podcast discussing the Egyptian IT industry, and various other technology related topics 
راديو عربي على الانترنت من المبرمجين المصريين للمبرمجين, باللغة العربية و باللهجة المصرية