Eleven years ago, three friends from Dhaka University started a Facebook page to sell honey and milk to people concerned about what they were eating. They delivered the orders themselves, packed products in a one-room borrowed place, and financed their tiny operation with meagre capital they put in from their combined savings. Today, Khaas Food, […]
Debasish Chakraborty is the founder and CEO of Chamak, a Dhaka-based financial technology company building the trade finance infrastructure that connects small businesses to formal financing in Bangladesh. Before Chamak, Debasish built and exited Tedfo, a profitable export marketing and management company he ran from 2016 to 2021. He holds a master's degree from Cornell […]
In 1984, University of Chicago psychologist Benjamin Bloom published what became known as the 2 Sigma Problem. His finding: students who received one-to-one tutoring performed, on average, two standard deviations better than students taught in conventional classrooms. Two sigma. That is the difference between an average student and one performing better than 98% of their […]
In Dhaka's fast-evolving e-commerce landscape, Pickaboo’s recent expansion into electronics can be viewed as an interesting case study in strategic expansion to an adjacent market. Founded in 2016 as a mobile phone and gadgets-focused online retailer, Pickaboo has spent the past two-plus years making significant inroads into consumer electronics, a market valued at approximately $9.7 […]
In a modest office in Vancouver, British Columbia, Abu Bakkar Siddiq pulls up a screen showing a brain-training game his team recently built. The app features smooth animations, word-matching puzzles, and a subscription paywall, the kind of well-made product that typically takes a quarter to develop. His team delivered it in less than two months. […]
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Islami Bank has separated mCash, its MFS business, into a standalone subsidiary and approved, in principle, a deal to bring in a US-based investor, B100 Holdings, which would take up to 48.99% of mCash. The deal still requires regulatory approval from the Bangladesh Bank before it can proceed. If it clears that hurdle and closes, […]
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