What it will take to have the middle east region create more startups:1. Entrepreneurs and avoid the fear of failures2. Infrastructure (internet, electricity, payments)3. Education4. Investments5. 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 startupsGeorges 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