Mst. Sadia Alam Setu struggled to photograph her hand-painted artwork. The talented artist with disabilities would hold up her colorful creations to her smartphone camera, but the images came out dull and unprofessional. Customers scrolled past without stopping. Then came a 10-minute video lesson in Bangla. Simple instructions: find natural light, try different angles, keep […]
Bangladesh's travel goods and gear market is mostly broken. There is a small formal market but the vast majority of the market operates informally where customers hunting for trekking boots or camping equipment face days of wandering between informal shops. No inventory systems. No quality standards. Handwritten bills. Products appear randomly in WhatsApp groups, and […]
Find the collection of last week’s excellent reading from Future Startup. 1. An Interview with Dipty Mandal, Co-founder and CMO, PriyoShop Dipty Mandal is not your typical founder or CMO. She left a cushy job at Bangladesh’s largest telecom company, Grameenphone, to co-found PriyoShop, a B2B e-commerce platform transforming the MSME retail supply chain and […]
Dipty Mandal is not your typical founder or CMO. She left a cushy job at Bangladesh’s largest telecom company, Grameenphone, to co-found PriyoShop, a B2B e-commerce platform transforming the MSME retail supply chain and finance landscape in Bangladesh. With a BBA and MBA in Marketing from the University of Dhaka, she brings a sharp understanding […]
At 3 AM, the development team discovered that an AWS access key — inadvertently exposed by being committed to a public repository — had been compromised by cryptocurrency miners, resulting in an unexpected $30,000 charge within just a few days. "This is a real case," explains Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, CTO of Brain Station 23, sharing […]
Community-based tourism has been the development world's favorite solution for decades. The pitch is always the same: instead of building resorts that benefit investors, create tourism that directly empowers local communities. Let villagers be the guides. Have artisans sell their crafts to visitors. Keep the money in rural areas where it's needed most. The concept […]
We have been interviewing founders and operators on building enduring enterprises for years now. Each of these interviews come with practical insights and deep wisdom. We have recently started going through some of these interviews in groups in the hope of finding common patterns. As we explore these detailed interviews with some of Bangladesh's successful […]
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