About Us

Insights, Inspiration, and Research for Building Lasting Enterprises 

Future Startup is a knowledge and research platform covering entrepreneurship, business, expertise, and technology in Bangladesh. 

Bangladesh’s economy stands at an inflection point. The country’s current economy of approx $460 billion is projected to reach over $1 trillion by the end of this decade. We are building a knowledge infrastructure to help our readers understand and navigate business and entrepreneurship in this growing economy. 

Aspirationally, we want to build something at the intersection of HBR and The Economist,  kind of like if these two publications had a baby and it covered Bangladesh’s business and entrepreneurship scene. 

We provide in-depth analysis on Bangladesh’s business and entrepreneurship landscape and also produce high-quality and practical knowledge for entrepreneurs, operators, investors, and intellectually curious readers to understand and build in this market. In the future, we hope to do the same for a few more markets in the region. 

If we put it differently, Future Startup’s vision is to build an open, comprehensive business + entrepreneurship knowledge and research platform to democratize access to business and entrepreneurship knowledge, expertise, and opportunities. 

The platform currently hosts over hundreds of long-form, in-depth interviews with founders, leaders, investors, operators, experts, and makers from different walks of life and thousands of analyses and essays on business, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial life. 

FS runs Bangladesh’s largest entrepreneurship and tech-focused newsletter, FS Weekly, with 11,900+ subscribers. 

FS also runs an entrepreneurship and business knowledge lecture series called FS Talk, a narrative strategy studio called FS Narrative Studio, and a research wing called Future Research. 

The Thesis

We believe that creating an entrepreneurial knowledge platform by sharing resources and connecting like-minded individuals can help unlock human potential to solve social problems. Teach people to tap into their agency and give them access to knowledge and opportunities, and they will create wonders. However, entrepreneurial knowledge and opportunities remain unevenly distributed in Bangladesh. 

We aim to create Bangladesh’s open and comprehensive online business and entrepreneurship knowledge platform to democratize entrepreneurial knowledge and opportunities to enable more entrepreneurship and innovation, and thus economic opportunities. 

Our goal is to inspire and enable aspiring founders to start organizations and existing businesses to grow their businesses by providing them access to knowledge, connections, and opportunities that they would not find anywhere else in Bangladesh. 

Problem

• Access to knowledge, connections, and opportunities remain some of the biggest challenges for businesses in Bangladesh and a major barrier to the growth of entrepreneurship in the country. Entrepreneurial knowledge and opportunities remain unevenly distributed.  
• There is a lack of coverage about how to build a business in Bangladesh, local markets, trends, companies, and important people. Business education in Bangladesh scarcely discusses the local entrepreneurship scene. 
• Entrepreneurship is a social phenomenon. Since starting a business is hard for various reasons, young people rarely study local entrepreneurs, and society treats entrepreneurs with skepticism, many people don’t consider entrepreneurship as a viable career option. 

Our solution

• We’re building Bangladesh's business + entrepreneurship knowledge platform to create greater economic opportunities by democratizing access to entrepreneurial knowledge, connections, and opportunities. 
• We inspire and educate aspiring founders to start companies and existing businesses to grow their businesses by providing them access to information and knowledge, connections, and services that they would not find anywhere else in Bangladesh. 

Our Products and Services

Free website: An easily accessible website that provides articles, interviews, and reports on entrepreneurship, business, and the tech industry in Bangladesh. 

• Our website, www.futurestartup.com, works as an online knowledge platform for local knowledge on entrepreneurship and business. We’re building the local knowledge infrastructure and the search engine for information and knowledge about entrepreneurship, technology, and business building in Bangladesh. 
• FS website also works as a community where people can learn about and connect with other founders, companies, and important people from different industries. 
• Our website is in English. However, we’re working on a Bangla version, which we believe will help us to make entrepreneurship and innovation accessible to even more people. 

Newsletter: A weekly entrepreneurship and tech-focused newsletter with over 11,000+ subscribers, probably the largest such newsletter in Bangladesh.  

FS Talk Community: Through our interviews, regular community events, and workshops, we seek to foster a community of entrepreneurs and professionals who can come together to support each other in building consequential enterprises and making a difference in the world. 

FS Narrative Studio: Narrative Strategy and marketing solutions. After writing about entrepreneurship, business, and technology for more than 11 years, we've identified a consistent pattern: many exceptional companies/organizations in Bangladesh have remarkable stories but struggle to tell them strategically for maximum business impact. Despite building exceptional products, they remain unknown to the customers, investors, and partners in a differentiated manner that can produce exceptional business results. We design powerful narrative strategies and create and distribute powerful branded storiessuch as articles, blog posts, white papers, reports, and content-based microsites that help shape opinions, build awareness, grow the business, and attract investors’ interest and media attention. 

Future Research: Custom on-demand market research around entrepreneurship, startup, and technology business. 

Books: Publishing important books on business, management, and work. 

SDG Goals: Our work impact following SDG Goals 

SDG 1: No Poverty

We seek to enable entrepreneurship in order to create economic opportunities for more people by creating employment opportunities that will eventually lead to the alleviation of poverty. 

SDG 8: Decent Work & Economic Growth

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure 

We believe entrepreneurship is the sustainable answer to many of the pressing problems that our society and world face today. By empowering more people to take initiative, we seek to accelerate economic growth, create greater employment opportunities, and accelerate innovation and development across sectors.