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FS Weekly 90: Insights and Research for Building Enduring Enterprises

This week’s FS Weekly covers: 

  1. The Art of Enterprise with Amra Naidoo
  2. Founder Story with Azra Salim
  3. Business Deep Dive on Leatherina
  4. Insight on Solving Hard Problems
  5. Brand Story on BdJobs MSME product
  6. Book Notes on Morning Pages 
  7. Recommendation 

FS Weekly 90: Insights and Research for Building Enduring Enterprises

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The Art of Enterprise

On Accelerating Asia, Startup Investing, and Life: An Interview With Amra Naidoo, Co-Founder, Accelerating Asia

In this interview from our archive, Accelerating Asia Co-founder Amra Naidoo walks us through her path to what she is doing today, gives us a peek behind the scenes of Accelerating Asia, discusses her investment philosophy, how Accelerating Asia operates and works with startups in the region, talks about everything startup, what separates winning startups, useful founder traits and much more. 

Founder Story 

Online Pharmacy, Entrepreneurship, and Life Lessons with Azra Salim, Founder, Shombhob Health

Azra Salim is the founder and CEO of online pharmacy and healthcare startup Shombhob Health. In this interview from our archive, learn her journey to what she is doing today, the origin story of Shombhob Health, the online pharmacy thesis, Shombhob’s ambition going forward, and much more. 

Business Deep Dive

Leatherina: Meet Bangladesh’s Emerging Behemoth of Sustainable Leather Products Manufacturing

Leatherina is a leather goods manufacturer with a focus on sustainability and fair trade practices. The company has built a fascinating business within a short time. Learn about Leatherina's business model, its competitive advantages, its prospects, and what we can learn from Leatherina's journey. 

Insight 

To Build important Companies, Solve Important Problems

Most people avoid boring and complex problems. Most people avoid difficult questions. Most people don’t want to do difficult and dirty work. We like to do things that attract attention and that are fun. We fall for trends and avoid hard questions. But real opportunities are in solving difficult and important problems.

Book Note

Clearing The Mind: My 60-Day Morning Pages Experiment

“Once I started doing morning pages, these pages gradually became my place for externalizing my inner turbulence. After writing three pages of mental baggage and sometimes good ideas, I would feel strangely unburdened to start working on my most important tasks.”

Recommendation 

1. The Twelve Foundations for a Good Life

A list of 12 habits that can help you to build a better life. 

2. Business Ecosystem Change Takes Time

“There was no law of nature that said that Morita or Ibuka had to focus on innovative consumer electronic devices. There was no rule that forced them to continually push the envelope. They could’ve built a perfectly good business making transistor-based subcomponents, perched two-to-three levels up on some supply chain. The two founders simply didn’t want to build laggard products for existing markets. They refused to settle.”


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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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