Bangladesh, a country of 170 million people, faces a growing demand for quality healthcare services as the country gradually goes through a series of consequential economic, demographic, and socio-cultural transitions. Healthcare remains one of the underdeveloped sectors in Bangladesh with the sector facing multifaceted challenges. The challenges are expected to exacerbate as the young population […]
One of my takeaways about many important things in life is that they are a learning problem. You are almost always having to figure things, situations, problems, and challenges out. The problem with such a reality is that it can be tiring. Partly because learning is time-consuming and hard. Partly because most life lessons require […]
I don’t know about you but I have always struggled with staying consistently productive. Some days it is hard to pull myself out of bed. My internal incoherence makes the whole enterprise of living a productive life an insurmountable mountain. In the face of omnipresent challenges and ever-changing demands of the marketplace, I constantly feel […]
Hi there: I'm Ruhul and this is Future Startup Weekly, a newsletter about entrepreneurship, expertise, and doing good work. After a brief hiatus, I feel excellent to be back. As part of a broader change in our work at FS, we have made some changes in the design and content of the newsletter. We plan […]
Interactive Cares, a Dhaka-based edtech startup with a focus on employability, has recently launched a revamped version of its website, featuring exciting new AI capabilities, an enhanced learner and partner experience, and new technology aimed at improving outcomes for both learners and corporate partners.
About three months ago, we embarked on an ambitious journey to develop a framework for identifying, supporting, and empowering grassroots innovations in Bangladesh. We consulted the existing literature on the subject, studied relevant works in countries like India, spoke with entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, teachers, development workers, trade unions, grassroots innovators, and experts, experimented with online calls to ideas, set up temporary local networks, and interviewed stakeholders and innovators. We encountered challenges, learned surprising new insights, and developed new realizations about grassroots innovations. In this post, we try to articulate what we have learned from that journey.
Wagely, the financial wellness platform that allows workers to access their pay after each workday, announced that it has secured $23 million in new funding amidst the current funding drought as the company surpasses more than one million salary disbursements since its inception. Wagely allows workers to better manage their money by letting them access […]
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