Thawra Street is a hub for the capital's ubiquitous public-transport minibuses.
Ross Goldstein, a co-founder and managing director of DFJ Gotham, points out that the Big Apple has climbed the ranks to become the second-largest venture capital hub in the U.S., unseating Boston and second only to the Bay area now.
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Babak Zanjani has more money in the bank than the entire GDP of this tiny former Soviet republic, but in the past few years he has been investing in businesses here, and today he is in town for the inauguration of his latest venture - a smart new transport hub for the capital, Dushanbe.
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Paris is traditionally more of a wine and Champagne capital than a hub of mixed-drink innovation.
But in Bahrain police are still engaged in near-daily fights with protesters, mainly in the rundown Shia villages that surround the wealthy commercial hub of Manama, the capital.
This rapid cultural development has made Shanghai an important destination on the international art circuit: The Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art and countless new private galleries, though young, are turning it into a contemporary arts hub to rival China's capital, Beijing.
Lower Mexican birthrates and the development of other urban alternatives have made La Capital far less a growth hub than once imagined.
The troops have gained ground in Mogadishu in the past few months, having cleared the Shabab out of the Bakara market, the capital's main trading hub.
Salvage workers said they had reached the basement of the building in Savar, a commercial hub about 10 miles north of the capital Dhaka, and were unlikely to recover significant numbers of new bodies.
China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed rail route, linking the capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou.
If Bangalore is India s software services capital, Gurgaon is the call center hub.
It also doesn't hurt Brown that Boston is a financial hub, home to companies like FMR and Bain Capital.
Few Syrians now dare to drive on the country's main artery, the highway from the capital north to Aleppo, a commercial hub, fearing ambushes on the road.
The ancient capital Beijing and the southern commerce and industrial hub of Guangzhou grew nearly as rapidly.
Sequoia Capital has long been hinting at a Brazilian hub, which they should take the plunge on in 2013.
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Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka, is known as India's information-technology hub as many top software companies have their headquarters or offices in the city.
It is much the same at KKR, which Kravis describes as a hub and spoke now that the firm has expanded into businesses like credit financing, mezzanine finance and capital markets.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and leaders from technology firms, venture capital and research universities recently announced a joint effort to position the Bay State as a hub for job creation in data science.
Nibletz.com puts on this conference to address issues such as raising capital, partnership agreements, and other prominent challenges for those not in the center of a tech hub.
Meanwhile another member of the European venture capital establishment, Index Ventures, is finally setting up offices nearby, in the start-up hub known as the Silicon Roundabout (photo above).
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