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Christopher Schroeder Poses an Interesting Question: How can Silicon Valley Engage in the Middle East?
Today we're going to kick things off with a phenomenal article by a trusted colleague of my father, who I have often relied upon for his expertise over the past few years since I decided to dive into the deep end of the digital pool.....
Christopher Schroeder is an advisor and angel investor for start-ups in the Middle East and emerging markets, and will be publishing a book next year on the entrepreneurial revolution that is remaking the region titled 'Arab Uprising'.
There is no greater first step then women and men from here to simply go visit. Every emerging market rising in tech start-ups have central "ecosystem builders" who love to have people not just in some dog and pony show, but to have serious conversations about finding mutually beneficial ways to connect. 500 Start-ups' Dave McClure and others have recently been to the Middle East and have a very different view of the ground for doing so.
Similarly, pushing for and making easy start-ups from emerging markets coming here -- plotting in advance to bring delegations of even hundreds of young starts ups to the great gatherings in the Valley, NYC and others -- is profound. It takes time and work (for the young people to get visas, find money to cover trips etc.; to coordinate connections/meetings in person). This is already happening adhoc, young entrepreneurs I meet have been coming here regularly, but I mean LARGE groups in multiple shots.
Because what is essential to appreciate is that the caliber of technology, tech saavy, daily use of tech, tech knowledge and entrepreneurial hunger is often as good (and often better) than what we are used to, but inconsistently distributed. In some countries that can mean too regular power/internet outages; in many it means very bright students trained more in hardware/big company "tech" rather than start-ups and light, agile development; in others it means inexperience in scaling businesses; and still others there are deserts of capital between early-early (which are increasingly findable) and late-late (which has been there for years) -- so once one needs $2-$5 mm, choices are very few in many of these markets especially in the Middle East. But, we will always be surprised based on our bias how much is fully understood and in motion. I had a conversation with a kid on term sheet best practices where he knew a ton of stuff I didn't -- all found off of Google. So the desire, sophisitication, selt-taught aspect of these markets are profound. Understanding this is a key step to understanding great potential connections to mutual benefit.
We in the west have to check our bias by engaging and thinking differently. As an example, we tend to think of "innovation" as the next shiny new thing -- but going to these other countries one must really think about how people use familiar tools to solve problems and opportunities for the first time and in new ways in their markets. From these 'innovations" some will only scale locally or regionally -- though something like, say, M-Pesa the Kenyan text payment systems should scale not only through Africa but anywhere in the world there is limited access to banking and great mobile penetration. At the same time, we in the west too often engage in these regions thinking "larger market cap -- gotta be there" and/or "cheap labor -- gotta outsource there." We think less about a) what we can learn/co-author together; b) that their "innovation" could push them and us to "leapfrog" into new areas because of their unique experiences, locations and cultures and c) the ease of selling/transporting goods to most corners of the world have never been easier.
I have been floored by the rise of eCommerce in the Middle East. For years people said country by country regs make the movement of goods very hard and costly; that a very low tradition of paying with credit cards compounds this. Well, shipping/logistics companies like Aramex (Fed Ex of MENA) are taking on the former, and dozens of start-ups there like CashU and the recently opened Pay Pal are handling the latter! Think of both the shared innovation and mutual market opening that could be found in the growing eCommerce ecosystems?
This is a long way of saying our engagement is a very powerful thing -- not only as nascent ecosystems benefit from experience/mentorship/investment, but because they have fresh ideas to teach US! And we are in the early days where the movement of virtual and physical goods; social connections and crowd solutions will be all but seemless in near any corner of the globe.
If you or anyone you know and admire become more seriously interested, I am pleased to be a resource. Especialy in MENA (including Turkey) folks are looking for serious connections of mutual interest -- based on mutual respect and co-authorship.
