Hussain M Elius is a Bangladeshi entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Pathao - a technology platform built to develop tangible solutions to battle the country's biggest infrastructural problems. With a local team of passionate changemakers, Pathao is redefining moving in the densest city of the world while
Author: Faisal Mahmud
FINANCING: A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK FOR BANGLADESHI STARTUPS
When Wasim Habib, Chaldal co-founder and CEO travelled to China for funding in 2016, it seemed liked he was going the wrong way. At the time, fundraising journeys almost always pointed the entrepreneurs West – he headed East. “The decision took many by surprise,” recalled Habib, who himself has long experience
‘MOBILE BASED PAYMENT SYSTEM IN A WAY COMBINES THE BENEFIT OF MOBILE PHONE AND BANK CARDS’
Kona Software Lab Limited (KSLL), the Bangladesh arm of South Korea based Kona has designed NexusPay for the DBBL. Fintech team had a discussion with its MD Minaoar Hossain Tanzil to learn about its operation and the challenges of designing digital payment solutions. Here is an excerpt of that conversation
IS IT TAXING TIME FOR ONLINE BUSINESS?
“NEXUSPAY IS YOUR ONE-STOP SOLUTION TO BECOME CASHLESS AND CARDLESS”
BUDGET 2018-19: HIGH PROMISES, UNCLEAR GOALS
Pre-election budget is about understanding the political economy and delivering a sharp messageFinance Minister AbulMaal Abdul Muhith apparently dipped into his party’s electoral playbook to design the Tk 4,64,573 crore national budget for FY2018-19. The 84-year-old minister who stood at the front row in Parliament on June 7 for a
WHAT BUDGETARY MEASURES WE HAVE FOR “DIGITAL BANGLADESH” THIS YEAR?
National budget in each year opens the book for the aspiring IT entrepreneurs and make them to calculate what they are going to get and lose. While these calculations become tricky sometimes because of some budgetary measures which at best can be termed as ‘vague’ and ‘counter-intuitive,’ it forces the
CYBER-CRIME AND THE VULNERABILITY OF THE FAIRER GENDER
What the cyber-bullies or the cyber-criminals bet on is shame: in a pre-dominantly Muslim conservative society, the horror of an intimate photo leaking, or rumors being spread, is enough to buy a teenage girl’s silence. Women, specially of young age are thus overwhelmingly the victims of an alarming rise in cybercrimes
GOVERNMENT PLANS A POLL-BOUND BUDGET, KEEPING AN EYE ON THE NATIONAL ELECTION AT YEAREND
With the national election scheduled to be held at the yearend, it would be surprising if the government does not pursue a budget that is aimed at the bottom and mid-bottom of the economic pyramid—representing the largest vote bank. Pre-budget numbers and measures on the government chalkboard hint no surprise there. An
GETTING EID SHOPPING DONE FROM YOUR COMFORT ZONE
The scorching sun, unbearable traffic clog and the hassle of gyrating your way amidst the large crowd-all while fasting- a daunting prospect indeed. Not for the eid shoppers though. For them the joy of haggling and shopping with friends and family supersedes all of those. This trend however is on the
