Shamim Khan is the Founder and Managing Director of Halda Valley Food and Beverage Ltd. The tale of Halda Valley began in 2002, when Nader Khan, Managing Director of PNL Holdings Limited, one of Bangladesh's most prominent corporate houses, acquired Halda Valley Tea Estate with an intention to add greater value to Bangladesh's tea sector. […]

CodeCrafters CEO Ellis Miller on building a stable operation in the early days of a business, managing the self, and valuing people

Ellis Miller is the co-founder and Managing Director of CodeCrafters International, a Dhaka-based international technology development company. Founded in 2007 by Ellis and Lynita Miller, CodeCrafters provides customized software solutions to businesses in the USA and other parts of the world. The company maintains a development team in Dhaka, Bangladesh with a U.S.-based sales and […]

Josh Waitzkin on how not to let one mistake turn into a downward spiral

A downward spiral has a simple trajectory. It starts small with one mistake that we either overlook or makes us so nervous that we turn one mistake into many and never recover from it. We all have experiences of events that got out of control and landed into a rapid downward spiral to never recover […]

FS Weekly No. 35: Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes

Hi there: I'm Ruhul. I convene Future Startup Weekly to help you understand entrepreneurship and the technology landscape in Bangladesh and beyond. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to our newsletter. If you are enjoying this, feel free to share it with other good people. FS Weekly was on a short unannounced hiatus […]

The Interview: On the ambition of Startup Bangladesh, startup policy, and startup and venture capital ecosystem of Bangladesh with Sami Ahmed, Managing Director, Startup Bangladesh Limited

Sami Ahmed is the Managing Director of Startup Bangladesh Limited, a Government of Bangladesh-funded VC firm, actively backing local startups. Prior to joining Startup Bangladesh, Mr. Ahmed was the Policy Advisor of the Leveraging ICT for Growth and Employment of the IT-ITES Industry (LICT-2) Project of the Bangladesh Computer Council, ICT Division. Before that, he […]

Ellis Miller on what he learned from the early days of CodeCrafters and the fundamentals of building a business from scratch

Ellis Miller is the co-founder and Managing Director of CodeCrafters International, a Dhaka-based international technology development company. Founded in 2007 by Ellis and Lynita Miller, CodeCrafters provides customized software solutions to businesses in the USA and other parts of the world. The company maintains a development team in Dhaka, Bangladesh with a U.S.-based sales and support […]

How AmarLab was created

All creation stories are fascinating. Over the years, we have published a handful of creation stories of Bangladeshi startups—how these companies got started. While there is a common thread among these stories, each story offers a fascinating insight into not only how companies come into being but also how things usually happen. The stories provide […]