This week’s newsletter features a few old stories from our archive, along with three new stories from last week.
In the business deep dive, we have profiles of a small but fascinating outdoor and travel goods retailer, Time Traveler, and a fast-growing hosting solution platform, xCloud. Time Traveler is interesting for several reasons. Along with being a growing small business, it also tells about a fascinating cultural shift in Bangladesh.
For xCloud, the company originally started as a WordPress-focused hosting provider and has since evolved into an all-in-one hosting solution provider. Its story offers revealing insights into what happens at fast-growing companies.
In brief, Gobi Partners makes its maiden investment in Bangladesh in travel tech platform Jatri.
In insight, we have two stories.
Rickshaw is an important node of urban mobility in Bangladesh. In a fascinating and far-reaching development, the rickshaw has been in transition. Once predominantly a manual peddle vehicle, it is now increasingly becoming an electric three-wheeler, creating all kinds of transportation and policy questions. Innovision Consulting has published a report on the development, and we published a takeaways piece along with our analysis of the development.
The other insight story compiles a list of 11 lessons from one of Dhaka’s most well-known and well-respected entrepreneurs, Fahim Mashroor, based on his earlier interviews with us.
We close today’s FS Weekly with a collection of 7 interviews from past weeks.
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