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 […]
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 […]
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