Fourteen years ago, a 22-year-old undergrad student came to realize that the private tuition market in Bangladesh was broken. He decided to fix it by building a platform. He paid a newspaper hawker 150 taka to slip 500 leaflets into the morning papers delivered to Gulshan. He and a classmate pooled their 18000 taka savings […]
I have come to realize that one of the most difficult problems in many areas of life is generating good ideas. From celebrating a loved one's special day to writing a good essay to running a business, coming up with good ideas that work is at the heart of almost all of it. This is […]
For most of the past decade, when a Bangladeshi startup founder sat down to file taxes, the fiscal system had no particular record of their existence. The government collected what it could from wherever it could, and the startup, burning through runway while trying to figure out product-market fit and generating little or no profit, […]
In 2002, Wahid Choudhury was a Bangladeshi physicist with an unfinished PhD, four years of software experience at a London startup, and a problem his wife didn't exactly agree with: he wanted to move back to Dhaka. He had left King's College London a few years earlier with an MPhil instead of a PhD, having […]
This case is built on our conversation with Brain Station Founder Raisul Kabir and is part of our case library. This particular case is part of the organization design sequence. From 2006 to 2012, Brain Station 23 had zero dedicated sales staff. Raisul Kabir, Founder and CEO of Brain Station, ran the entire sales operation […]
I recently restarted going to the gym after a long break. I wasn't completely sedentary before. I do short runs, some push-ups, and small movements here and there. But structured, regular exercise had been out of my life for quite some time. So I have been trying to get back to the gym. When I […]
Welcome to another late edition of Future Startup Letter, our weekly newsletter featuring interesting reads from past weeks and links from our favorite publications and writers online. Today’s edition features six articles from Future Startup. Three articles focus on important policy and structural issues critical for the growth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Bangladesh. The […]
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