Abu Dhabi Media Summit turns focus on entrepreneurship.
Dan Senor, co-author of Start-up Nation, has told delegates at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit that the start-up economy of the Mena (Middle East and North Africa) region “can take off like a rocket ship” providing it meets certain market criteria.
Senor spoke of the opportunities for rising entrepreneurs in the Mena region:
“If you have a combination of a huge market with hungry entrepreneurs who are not as risk adverse, and you add in expertise in venture capital and also building companies, if you can combine all that, this region can just take off like a rocket ship,” explained the author and senior adviser at Elliott Management.
Senor drew on the example of Israel as a country which, in the early 1990s, had become the “farmers of high technology”, using the government-funded Yozma program to invest in private venture capital funds and help to build an innovation-based economy...
Dan Senor, co-author of Start-up Nation, has told delegates at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit that the start-up economy of the Mena (Middle East and North Africa) region “can take off like a rocket ship” providing it meets certain market criteria.
Senor spoke of the opportunities for rising entrepreneurs in the Mena region:
“If you have a combination of a huge market with hungry entrepreneurs who are not as risk adverse, and you add in expertise in venture capital and also building companies, if you can combine all that, this region can just take off like a rocket ship,” explained the author and senior adviser at Elliott Management.
Senor drew on the example of Israel as a country which, in the early 1990s, had become the “farmers of high technology”, using the government-funded Yozma program to invest in private venture capital funds and help to build an innovation-based economy...
- 10/24/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
During a recent Fox and Friends segment surrounding the Islamic cultural center/mosque that is proposed for Lower Manhattan, guest analyst Dan Senor pointed out that Imam Rauf had previously received funds from a Saudi organization that is alleged to also "fund radical madrassas all over the world" and is headed up Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. Jon Stewart used that clip to then reveal that bin Talal just so happens to also be a large partner News Corp. business partner, or in his words, "The terror funder is Rupert Murdoch's News Corps' funder!"...
- 8/24/2010
- by Colby Hall
- Mediaite - TV
"American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi's dad, a former congressman, is looking to re-enter the political picture.
Joseph DioGuardi, who served two terms in the House of Representatives in the 1980s, is considering a run for one of New York's U.S. Senate seats. DioGuardi, a Republican, is expected to announce his campaign next week, the AP reports.
The seat he's running for is currently held by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed in 2009 after Hillary Clinton left the Senate to become Secretary of State. Whoever wins the special election in November will serve until 2012, then will have to run again to serve a full six-year term.
DioGuardi, a certified public accountant, could be part of a potentially crowded Republican primary field. One other candidate, Bruce Blakeman, has already said he's running, and former New York Gov. George Pataki is also thinking about a run, as is former George W. Bush...
Joseph DioGuardi, who served two terms in the House of Representatives in the 1980s, is considering a run for one of New York's U.S. Senate seats. DioGuardi, a Republican, is expected to announce his campaign next week, the AP reports.
The seat he's running for is currently held by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed in 2009 after Hillary Clinton left the Senate to become Secretary of State. Whoever wins the special election in November will serve until 2012, then will have to run again to serve a full six-year term.
DioGuardi, a certified public accountant, could be part of a potentially crowded Republican primary field. One other candidate, Bruce Blakeman, has already said he's running, and former New York Gov. George Pataki is also thinking about a run, as is former George W. Bush...
- 3/13/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The whispers that former foreign policy adviser during the Bush administration Dan Senor will be running for New York Senate as a Republican are getting louder - and that means preemptive follow-up questions. Senor's wife is CNN anchor Campbell Brown, and the New York Post is asking what may happen to her role if Senor decides to jump in the race. Update: Greta defends Campbell.
- 3/4/2010
- by Steve Krakauer
- Mediaite - TV
Amy Sussman/Getty While moderating the 2008 Presidential Debate in Austin for CNN, Campbell Brown was the very definition of calm, cool and collected. “It was a lifetime dream for me coming true,” the 41-year-old television journalist recently noted during an appearance on Julie Menin’s Give and Take talk show. Little did Campbell know, however, that just hours after the debate she would suffer her first real meltdown of new motherhood.
Having welcomed her first child two months before, Campbell had been shipping her breastmilk back to New York — but disaster was about to strike. “There was a snowstorm or something and the FedEx flight was delayed. The milk didn’t make it and my husband had to give the baby a bottle of formula,” she recalls. “I was crying, literally, in the airport.”
“I couldn’t believe that something had fallen through the crack. I hadn’t thought of...
Having welcomed her first child two months before, Campbell had been shipping her breastmilk back to New York — but disaster was about to strike. “There was a snowstorm or something and the FedEx flight was delayed. The milk didn’t make it and my husband had to give the baby a bottle of formula,” she recalls. “I was crying, literally, in the airport.”
“I couldn’t believe that something had fallen through the crack. I hadn’t thought of...
- 8/11/2009
- by Missy
- People - CelebrityBabies
No bias. No bull. All baby. CNN anchor Campbell Brown and husband Dan Senor celebrated the arrival of their second child on Monday, a boy, a rep for the cable news network confirmed to E! News. Asher Liam Senor weighed in at a healthy 9 pounds, 4 ounces and measured 21½ inches. Both mom and tot are said to be doing well. Asher joins older brother Eli James Senor, who was born in December 2007. The 40-year-old Brown and the 37-year-old Senor, a partner in Rosemont Capital and a former White House adviser in the Bush administration, swapped vows in April 2006 when the CNN journalist was previously the weekend anchor on NBC's Today show.
- 4/7/2009
- E! Online
Campbell Brown has a house full of boys! The CNN anchor and her husband Dan Senor welcomed their second son on Monday. Asher Liam Senor weighed in at 9 lbs., 4 oz. and is 21½ inches long, USA Today reports. Mom and baby are healthy and doing great. Brown, 40, and Senor, 37, a partner in Rosemont Capital, are also parents to Eli James Senor, who was born in December 2007. The couple have been married since April 2006.- Marla Lehner...
- 4/7/2009
- PEOPLE.com
Matthew Yglesias--who, contrary to rumors put out by his detractors, does not blog from a tree fort--goes funnin' with a news item about some minor action on the neocon front: When I was a kid, I remember hearing that cockroaches would not only survive the sure-to-happen Us-Soviet nuclear holocaust, but actually emerge stronger than ever as they devour our irradiated corpses. Similarly, there’s a new think tank in town, headed by Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, and former Coalition Provisional Authority spokesguy Dan Senor. An airy jest, one might think, but not if you're Jamie Kirchick, The New Republic and Commentary's militant test-tube version of Screech from Saved by the Bell. Kirchick accuses Yglesias of trafficking in tribal code hate speech: The use of the word “cockroach” to describe undesirable persons has a long history, but there’s a specific and ugly context that is most pertinent. In the run-up...
- 3/28/2009
- Vanity Fair
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