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
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BENEFITS OF BOOTSTRAPPING YOUR STARTUP
Startups: A Simple guideline
A company just getting off the ground and associated with a business that is typically technology oriented and has high growth potential is Startup. Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator said "In comparison to traditional business ventures, startups are expected to grow rapidly, at a rate of between 5% and 7%
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
BANGABANDHU-1:USHERING INTO OUR ‘OWN SPACE AGE’
On May 12, Bangladesh’s space age has dawned with the successful launch of Bangabandhu-1 satellite by SpaceX into orbit. An anticipated and arguably the most significant incident in the country’s ICT sector, the launching of BS-1 was earlier deterred on a number of occasions, fueling skepticism and speculation among common people. Getting
HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION SATELLITES – TIMELINE & MAJOR EVENTS
This article chronicles the key advances that shaped the history of communication satellites. Each one of these events took us a step closer to today when we have more than a thousand satellites in orbit. You don’t have to remember all of these developments. Just notice the gradual technological progression
SWIPE, DRAG, BREAD N’ ROLL – THE ON-DEMAND MEAL DELIVERY INDUSTRY: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT’S NOT, FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Textile industry professional Ahmad AD and his friends often found themselves sitting together for meetings, as most professionals do. The decision making and the brainstorming felt incomplete without food at those sessions. Ahmad felt that easy access to food, in meetings or elsewhere, matters to them significantly and he thought
GETTING A GRASP OF THE ‘H’S AND ‘W’S OF THE FOOD DELIVERY BUSINESS
With more families supported by working parents and younger, single people favoring convenience above all else, cooking after “long day” isn’t exactly the option urbanites prefer these days. Banking on that, two things have happened: restaurants have mushroomed and food delivery services—an age old system but re-packaged with a crunch of
QR CODE PAYMENT: MONEY IN BLACK AND WHITE DOTS
The Chinese people can easily make you feel foreign, if not alienated. I realized that well enough during my visit to the Chinese industrial city Guangzhou last year. While I was carrying Yuan—the Chinese currency—and was struggling to communicate with vendors, shopkeepers and restaurateurs in making payments, people around me were
