Written by Md Ismail Hossain Bangladesh’s semiconductor industry is gaining momentum. There have been a lot of discussions and policy movements around how to take the industry forward in the last few years. Some of these efforts have created a renewed sense of optimism and dynamism in the industry. Coming to where the industry is […]
TL;DR: GrowthX is iDEAN Consulting’s three-month business growth program for entrepreneurs who want to move beyond tactical marketing and build a more systematic approach to growth. The program combines online sessions, in-person workshops, business-growth frameworks, and hands-on application to help entrepreneurs diagnose the structural problems inside their businesses and build systems for sustainable growth. It […]
One of the perks of my job running a knowledge platform is that I get to spend a lot of my time reading, which happens to be my favorite thing to do, and get paid for it. It is a privileged position. Of course, being an operator-writer means you still need to build and run […]
This week’s newsletter features: Reading Recs Enjoy! 1. Bangladesh's Electric Vehicle Market: Structure, Forces, and the Future In many countries, the electric vehicle transition is a policy project, a deliberate push from the government to shift a stubborn incumbent industry toward a cleaner technology. Bangladesh's EV story is different in a way that is easy […]
For most of the last decade, the story of artificial intelligence had a single geography. The labs that mattered, such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta AI, sat within a few miles of each other in the Bay Area. The capital that mattered came from the same handful of venture capital funds. The compute that […]
Bangladesh's tablet market continues to gain momentum as digital adoption expands across education, business, and entertainment. The growing reliance on online learning, hybrid work environments, digital content creation, and mobile productivity has increased consumer demand for high-performance tablets, with Samsung and Apple maintaining their leadership in the country's premium tablet segment. According to Md. Yousuf […]
We first covered Filament Engineering (Muspana) in 2017, when it was still a small solar and IPS business working out of a modest setup in Mohammadpur. Nearly a decade later, we sat down with its founder, Atiqur Rahman Sarker Sohel, again. The company today operates eight to ten operational wings, manufactures the country's only round […]
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