South and Southeast Asia are the beating heart of global labor migration. Every year, over 10 million workers from this region pack their bags and cross international borders for work. From the construction sites of the Middle East to the nursing homes of Japan and the factories of Malaysia and many OECD countries, the muscle […]
Tipsoi, the AI-powered workforce management platform built by Inovace Technologies, has unveiled a new brand identity, marking the company's evolution from a Bangladesh-grown software business into a global player in workforce management solutions, per a press release. Tipsoi operates in a fast-changing and increasingly fascinating industry spanning biometric access control, productivity software, and workplace security […]
RangsX, the electric mobility arm of one of Bangladesh's most trusted conglomerates, Rangs Group, delivered 18 Dongfeng electric cargo vans to DHL Express Bangladesh on July 8, 2026, at the Rangs Assembly Plant in Sonargaon, per a press release. It is the first time a logistics operator in the country has added fully electric commercial […]
Last month, we published a fascinating long profile on Dhaka-based strategy consultant Mark Anupom Mollick and his consulting firm iDEAN Consulting. The piece covers a lot of ground. Mollick's fourteen-year journey from Naval Architecture at BUET to enterprise software engineer at CodeCrafters International to strategy consultant. The founding of his consulting firm, iDEAN, and its […]
This week’s letter features five essays that can be explained using the theme of the first essay, which is using the right amount of force to navigate a situation. Starting and building a business, in many ways, is a calibration challenge—being able to make the right intervention at the right time and applying it in […]
By the time Raisul Kabir co-founded Brain Station 23 in 2006, he had already started one company, walked away from a 30% stake in it, and built a freelance income that paid him more than most fresh graduates in Dhaka could expect to earn. Brain Station 23 wasn't his first attempt at entrepreneurship. It was […]
I have done a fair bit of reading about venture capital in the past, which comes with the territory, but never approached it as a structured learning project. I’m changing it now, and this is the initial reading list I’m beginning with. To be clear, I'm not planning to become an investor. Since I’ve been writing […]
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