It is hard to summarize today’s newsletter. We feature three fascinating interviews: To top it off, we have excellent reading recs to help you have a wonderful week. All links are below. Eight Takeaways From Future Startup’s The Art of Enterprise Interview With BeshiDeshi Founder Zeeshan Khurshed Mazumder In 2019, BeshiDeshi was a promising, if […]
Most business success stories celebrate ambition and brilliant planning. Huawei's origin story is different—it's about what happens when survival necessity forces you to execute in ways no rational player would attempt. In 1987, a 43-year-old former military engineer named Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei with the equivalent of $5,000. By 1996, the company had become China's […]
Today, we have a fascinating interview with Sabidin Ibrahim. Sabidin is a journalist by profession, currently working as a Senior Sub-editor at the leading Bengali daily, The Daily Bonik Barta. However, I have known him since my university days at Dhaka University. He was a mentor and a fellow reader to me and many of […]
In 2019, BeshiDeshi was a promising, if modest, e-commerce site. Today, it stands transformed—an integrated, comprehensive ecosystem quietly shifting the landscape of Bangladesh’s artisan economy, connecting thousands of craftspeople to national and international markets. The company’s founder, Zeeshan Khurshed Mazumder, has navigated the complex logistics of handmade goods, balanced competitive pricing against fair artisan compensation, […]
This week’s FS newsletter is packed with fascinating reads. After a long time, FS interviews are making a regular comeback. This newsletter features 01 brilliant new interview. Additionally, we have excellent articles on Zatiq, an ecommerce platform targeting SMEs, a policy analysis on Bangladesh Bank's recent SME remittance facility, and a deep dive into ExchangeKori's […]
Mohammad Mizanur Rahman is a Director and the CTO of Brain Station 23, one of Bangladesh’s largest software and technology development services companies with a growing global business. Before joining Brain Station in 2013, Mizan ran his own company, which he termed jumping into entrepreneurship without knowing much about what the journey entailed. At Brain […]
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