Hi guys and girls,
Nice to find a forum. I'm James from London, and I'm trying to work out where to launch my next startup.
I've been in Beirut for a while, but am not sure if this is the place. I want to meet loads of engineers and people working here to get a better idea of whats going on in the tech/internet/software scene.
I'm a scientist at heart, a philosophy graduate from Nottingham/Hong Kong, and a chartered accountant by training with Ernst & Young.
I founded unilibri.com and have been working on it for the last few years - this ended at the beginning of December when we weren't able to raise the $2m in funding we required. I'm now working on a non-profit, teaching myself Arabic and (to) code whilst formulating the next start-up.
If anyone wants to grab a coffee somewhere (I'm Sanayeh/Hamra), just let me know. It would be great to hear what you are working on and see if I can help out.
Thanks again, I look forward to meeting you and keeping up with this forum.
James
Random extra:
The question that I was asked when I joined - I'm assuming to check whether I was human, not intelligent! - was nearly identical to the one posed at 2:05 in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiTz2i4VHFw&list=UUC552Sd-3nyi_tk2BudLUzA&index=3
Whats funny is that whilst I was fortunate enough to get it right, we are naturally built to answer this question wrongly, whilst a computer - perhaps Watson - should be a lot better.
But anyway. Great to meet you all.