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 […]
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 […]
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