Last week, we published an in-depth interview with Shahreer Zahan, founder and CEO of Adroit Education, where we explored a counterintuitive approach to building a business: deliberately staying small, building lasting differentiation, and refusing to scale in ways that compromise quality. Since 2017, Adroit, a Dhaka-based mentorship-driven education consultancy company that helps Bangladeshi students access […]
Hi there, I'm Ruhul, and this is Future Startup Letter, a newsletter about entrepreneurship, expertise, and doing good work. You can read past issues here and subscribe here. At FS, we are on a mission to help create a more entrepreneurial world, empowering people to find and apply their agency. We are privileged to have […]
The six-month accelerator program builds on Cohort 1's track record, where, the program claims, participants achieved 2-10x growth Onnorokom Uddokta, the nonprofit accelerator and incubator program by Onnorokom Group, officially launched Cohort 2.0 of its accelerator program on February 26, 2026, selecting 31 diverse startups and SMEs to receive strategic support, mentorship, and resources aimed […]
Masud Parvez Raju started Caretutors in 2012 with 18,000 Taka, a 3,000-Taka website, and a handful of leaflets slipped inside morning newspapers delivered to Gulshan. He was 22 years old, a BBA student at IUB, and working part-time at an IT firm to supplement his living expenses in Dhaka, a city he had moved to […]
There is a particular kind of optimism that afflicts coverage of emerging digital economies. The tendency to treat growth metrics as a proxy for structural transformation. Manufactured hype. Optimistic hypotheses without any real basis. Bangladesh generates a lot of that optimism. Internet penetration, mobile subscriptions, e-commerce volumes, MFS accounts, the trend lines all point up […]
In November 2025, we published a conversation with Raisul Kabir, founder and CEO of Brain Station 23, where we explored one of the most consequential questions in business: how do you scale? When we last interviewed Mr. Raisul in 2019, Brain Station 23 was a 185-person software services company. Today, it employs nearly 1000 people […]
Shahreer Zahan is the founder and CEO of Adroit Education, an education consulting service and mentorship program that has fundamentally changed how Bangladeshi students access top American universities. Since 2017, Adroit has helped students secure over $100 million in scholarships from institutions like Princeton, Stanford, MIT, and Yale, while maintaining a near-perfect success rate across […]
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