Start-up Nation by Saul Singer

Start-up Nation Reviews

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  saleha

  This book at the beginning, actually made me ask myself, “What’s up with these people? How did they manage to build a full-fledged living and a growing economy amidst of all “potential enemies”? How are they fighting wars and simultaneous keeping their stance high?”
  It actually gives you those “wait a minutee” moments in between reading and keeps you wondering about their mentality and perspectives on “struggling” to exist.
  
  The primary answers to my questions lied in:
  
  1) Military training - Protect
  2) Entrepreneurship - Create
  3) Cluster environment - Optimum conditions
  4) Chutzpah - Esteem
  
  In addition, it does try to cover up some “activities” as swiftly as possible, which leads me that there is way more than just those 4 answers to how the “nation” built.
  
  The book does give a hard time understanding some economical terms especially if you don’t have that knowledge beforehand :p so some surfing becomes necessary.
  
  
  Overall, this is the book which also opened my mind, on what our Muslim countries are lacking and hence aren’t boosting as “nations” rather than just “countries”- and what I mean by this is that we are not homes, we are just mere houses of different sizes, some lavishly furnished, and some deprived of basics, and this is because of our not-allowed-to-question culture, or “not-knowing” our potential enemies, or simply lack of courage/esteem (to understand that Islam is the correct system and standing by it) - or in their words - lack of chutzpah.