{"id":52,"date":"2014-01-01T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-01-01T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T13:42:08","slug":"iran-startup-scene-turning-top-engineers-businessmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/iran-startup-scene-turning-top-engineers-businessmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran startup scene: turning top engineers into businessmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran may not be the first destination you would think of when it comes to startups. Its track record is here: top engineers filling American Ivy League Universities, a series of key founders who made possible eBay, Dropbox, Youtube or Zoosk, and, more recently, a political improvement which make diasporans think of going back to the country to make it a tech hub. Yes, Iran sits at the center of a 120-130m people market talking Farsi, with borders to huge and untapped countries.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/33443189\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong> <a title=\"Innovation is everywhere iran startup tech innovation ecosystem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/innovationiseverywhere\/innovation-is-everywhere-iran-startup-tech-innovation-ecosystem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation is everywhere iran startup tech innovation ecosystem<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/innovationiseverywhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation is Everywhere<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve spent three weeks in Iran in November 2013, and have been paying visits to the local connectors of the startup scene, as well as attended the Startup Weekend in Shiraz.<\/p>\n<p>In this report on the Iran startup scene, you will learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How wars shaped a generation of top engineers who, by lack of opportunities, often emigrate and create successful tech ventures<\/li>\n<li>Details on a rich market of Farsi-speaking population, and a regional hub in markets no one has dared to venture<\/li>\n<li>What are the present day events and community players who make possible the birth of a generation of startupers in Tehran and elsewhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran may not be the first destination you would think of when it comes to startups. Its track record is here: top engineers filling American Ivy League Universities, a series of key founders who made possible eBay, Dropbox, Youtube or Zoosk, and, more recently, a political improvement which make diasporans think of going back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,47,49,51],"tags":[97,93],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic","category-countries","category-innovators-category","category-markets-category","tag-iran","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}