These are some of our most popular articles that received the most attention from you—our readers—throughout 2025. While a good number of these articles were published in 2025, a significant percentage also come from our archive of past years.
Year-end is an interesting time. It affords us an opportunity to explore our hindsight while also providing a chance to look ahead, attempting to build a coherent vision for the days ahead based on that hindsight. I hope this list of articles will aid in your attempt to look back better to derive insights and inspiration and prepare better for what's coming.
We wish you a meaningful 2026.
1. The 50 Most Valuable Companies in Bangladesh by Market Cap as of October 2024
2. A Brief History of bKash: Trajectory, Funding, and Lessons
3. 10 Predictions What Bangladesh Startup Ecosystem Will Look Like in 2025
4. The State of Mobile Financial Services (MFS) Industry in Bangladesh
5. The Origin of Huawei: When Desperation Becomes Strategy
6. Walton: Bangladesh's EE Champion with Global Ambitions
7. Bangladesh Bank's Startup Financing Revamp: Promise and Pitfalls
8. Book Review: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
9. Square Pharmaceuticals: Bangladesh's Perennial Leader in Pharmaceuticals
10. QzTest Launches Bangladesh's First Serious Online Exam Platform
11. A Brief History of ShopUp: From Facebook Commerce Facilitator to Cross-Regional B2B Powerhouse
12. How Brain Station 23 Built a National E-Ticketing Platform in Eight Weeks
13. BdJobs Aims to Disrupt Informal Sector and Blue Collar Job Markets
14. Business Deep Dive: Renata Limited
15. Bangladesh's Semiconductor Ambitions
16. The Counterintuitive Rise of Edtech Startup Hulkenstein
17. Understanding What's Happening in Dhaka's Startup Scene
18. Inside Pran-RFL Group's Growing Retail Dominance and the Power of Owning Distribution
19. BRAC Otithi: Finally a Serious Enough Community Tourism Model That Might Actually Work
20. Book Review: The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
21. Togumogu: Simplifying Parenting in Bangladesh with a Comprehensive Digital Platform
22. Arogga: Started as a Digital Pharmacy, Aims to Go Deeper into Digital Healthcare in Bangladesh
23. Onnorokom Group Launches Onnorokom Uddokta Accelerator Program, Announces Inaugural Cohort
24. Aarong Turns 40: A Brief History of Aarong
25. iFarmer Cashless Farmer Card
26. Monsha Joins Launch Accelerator, Raises $125k to Build Global AI Product for Teachers
27. A List of Bangladesh's Most Fascinating Agritech Startups
28. Goofi: Building a Global Children's Media Empire
31. 29 Quotes from Peter Thiel's Zero to One
32. iFarmer Launches Folon App
33. BAN Launches Digital Platform to Simplify Startup Investing
35. Four Aspects of the Harada Method
36. Sheikh Akij Uddin: 14 Facts You Should Know
37. Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and 20 Beautiful Quotes from the Book
38. Clearing the Mind: My 60-Day Morning Pages Experiment
39. 11 Lessons from Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
40. Review and 14 Powerful Quotes from Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
41. The State of Edtech in Bangladesh
42. The Future Startup Dossier: How Baidu Has Become China's Google
44. The Story of Udvash: 6000 Taka and Life-Changing Education
45. 7 Takeaways from BIDA and BEZA Executive Chairman Ashik Chowdhury's Viral Bangladesh Investment Summit Speech
46. The Three Dimensions of Negotiation
47. Bangladesh Angels Network Appoints Ivy Huq Russell as CEO
48. White Paper: The Future of E-Commerce in Bangladesh
49. Kahf Guard: Your Ultimate Haram Blocker on the Internet
50. TallyKhata Eyes Its Next Evolution: Building Digital Credit Solutions for Small Businesses
51. How Chhaya is Building an End-to-End Digital Microinsurance Platform in Bangladesh
52. iFarmer's Partnership with Banks and NBFIs Transforms Agriculture Lending Landscape in Bangladesh
53. 22 Unusual Facts to Know About Samson H. Chowdhury of Square
54. This is How Udvash Delivers Quality Education
55. Book Review: Endure by Cameron Hanes
58. 40 Pieces of Advice on Living
59. A Bangladeshi Young Person's Guide to Investing and Wealth Creation
61. Device Mama: How a Refurbished Laptop Seller is Building a New Kind of Trust Economy in Bangladesh
