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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
Last week, we published a wide-ranging conversation with Masud Parvez Raju, founder and CEO of Caretutors, where we explored one of the quieter but more instructive startup stories in Dhaka: how to build profitably for thirteen years without significant external capital, how to survive multiple near-death experiences through patience and frugality, and how to create […]
How Bangladesh’s one of the most disciplined startups lost the plot and a decade of operational excellence gave way to strategic overreach — and what it cost In early March 2026, news broke that Chaldal’s employees at its Jashore Hi-Tech Park facility had not been paid for three to four months. Several hundred workers staged […]
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 […]
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