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FS Weekly 88: Insights and Research for Building Enduring Enterprises

This week’s FS Weekly features: 

  1. The Art of Enterprise with Waseem Alim
  2. Founder Story with Mohan Belani 
  3. Business Deep Dive on Startise Group 
  4. Insight on the future of agri-tech 
  5. Brand Story on Drutoloan
  6. FS Updates   

FS Weekly 88: Insights and Research for Building Enduring Enterprises

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On to the updates 

The Art of Enterprise

Waseem Alim: Chaldal’s Strategic Direction, Navigating Tough Times, and Underrated Insights Into Startup and Ecommerce

Gain invaluable insights into Chaldal's strategies, Bangladesh's e-commerce landscape, startup ecosystem challenges, and venture building in challenging times.


Founder Story 

Mohan Belani on the making of E27, the future of media business, the importance of trying things, great founders, and a good life

In this engaging interview, Mohan Belani, E27's founder, discusses building a Pan-Asia tech ecosystem platform, entrepreneurship challenges, and personal growth insights.


Business Deep Dive

The Startise Story: Defying the Odds to Build a Global Tech Powerhouse from Bangladesh

Started as a small WordPress plugin team, Startise Group has rapidly grown into a global giant, serving over 6 million customers across 5 distinct technology companies. We take a deep dive into the company's history, evolution, and strategies. 


Insight 

The Future of Agritech in Bangladesh: From Vertical Solutions to End-to-End Platforms

Learn how a growing number of agritech startups, once content to solve isolated problems in the agricultural value chain, are now setting their sights on a more ambitious goal: to become end-to-end platforms for farmers and other stakeholders in the sector. 


Brand Story 

Drutoloan: Cracking The MSME Financing Code

Learn how fintech startup Drutoloan, is simplifying and democratizing access to finance for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Bangladesh. 


Recommendation 

1. What are we doing here?

“Our humanness is not given to us. Instead, it requires our participation in its construction and realisation, which often comes about through collapse or calamity. We rummage through the chaos of our inner worlds, through our multitude of selves, to discover what we are, what we wish to be, and our authentic relationship with the world. This process requires a kind of winnowing of those selves and the dispensing of any that are no longer of service to the work of becoming fully human.  We must separate the wheat from the chaff. This is a necessary but painful form of spiritual renovation – to discard those ancient and destructive versions of oneself and become an actual person, unique among other people. We must do this lest we be frozen in a stasis of the soul.”

2. An Interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su About Solving Hard Problems 


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Mohammad Ruhul Kader is a Dhaka-based entrepreneur and writer. He founded Future Startup, a digital publication covering the startup and technology scene in Dhaka with an ambition to transform Bangladesh through entrepreneurship and innovation. He writes about internet business, strategy, technology, and society. He is the author of Rethinking Failure. His writings have been published in almost all major national dailies in Bangladesh including DT, FE, etc. Prior to FS, he worked for a local conglomerate where he helped start a social enterprise. Ruhul is a 2022 winner of Emergent Ventures, a fellowship and grant program from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He can be reached at ruhul@futurestartup.com

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