Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

I talk with people in Kenya, in Peru, in Mexico and in Bangladesh, and it is just so hard. And so, you can't assume that what's valid for Western countries is valid also for developing countries. And so, I'm looking into what are the right strategies for them. In fact, it is depressing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

Faced with the rising costs of labour, materials and land in Chinese cities, companies are increasingly sourcing from other Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Rising consumer demand in China itself has also led its own manufacturers to favour selling domestically.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Some countries known as frontier markets are Argentina, Lebanon, Vietnam, Nigeria, Oman, Bahrain, and Bangladesh. The bottom line is that emerging and frontier markets are still different from each other. These are just a few countries from the MSCI Frontier Markets Index. Investing in Frontier Markets.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2021

Whenever you hear about Bangladesh you only see the bad news. With Hasan’s background in fashion, an industry worth $22 billion dollars a year in their own backyard (making Bangladesh the second largest worldwide supplier), they found a market worth exploring. Arifin and I discussed what we could do to change that,” Mahdi recounted.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Lending: In 1983, Muhammed Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, based on the notion that the poor were credit-worthy and that a model of positive “peer pressure” would lead to repayment of loans. Something Kenyans realized many years ago.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? Some of the major changing tides of demography may have important political, economic, and potentially military consequences.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. But it wasn’t until a little later when I spent more time with the freelancer side that I discovered the true power and potential significance of the platform.

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Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

By joining forces with Generate, Transformify Recruitment CRM can provide an end-to-end recruitment solution to its clients that meets both the candidate sourcing and payroll and compliance needs.’’ ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Lending: In 1983, Muhammed Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, based on the notion that the poor were credit-worthy and that a model of positive “peer pressure” would lead to repayment of loans. Something Kenyans realized many years ago.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

‘’ABC, a US company, signs an agreement with Mr ‘’X’’, a citizen of Bangladesh. ABC pays Mr ’’X’’ a US median market pay rate which is times above the pay rate in Bangladesh stating that the company wants to support the local community. ’’ Round-tripping.

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Transformify

JANUARY 21, 2020

It is impossible for them to lower their rates to match the bids of those freelancers living in India, Bangladesh or the Philippines where the living costs are much lower. As the living costs around the world vary a lot, open bidding results in very low pay rates that are not in favor of those freelancers living in the Nordics, the US, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

If you add 210 million Muslims from Indonesia and 134 million from Bangladesh — it turns out that 700 million people from South and East Asia have the four largest Muslim populations in the word. I’m sure you didn’t pick up that nuance in the vilification and scare-mongering coming from our administration.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners. In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

If an employee regularly logs in to his virtual desktop from his home office in Boston, security monitoring systems won’t let a stray login from Bangladesh go without some deeper investigation. The system will alert security personnel when something out of the ordinary is detected. The cloud provides several key advantages.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2012

The concept and first implementation of modern microfinancing is generally credited to Dr. Mohammad Yunus who, back in the 1970s, began lending to impoverished women in Jobra, Bangladesh, while teaching economics at Chittagong University. He went on to found the aforementioned Grameen Bank (“Grameen” means “village” in Bengali).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2019

That is, a client in Bangladesh, Ohio or Akron, is able to call the same number and get the call routed to the same destination, and never know that they did not call a direct line. Call Forwarding offers uniformity for a business that operates in distinctive parts of the world or country.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

MasterCard’s Index – which covers Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar – calculates an aggregate score for each country based on three components: basic money management, financial planning and investment.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

We are perceived as a health organization, helping those who make less thank $4/day in India, Bangladesh and several countries in Africa, but in fact, we are contributing to livelihoods, unlocking $1.4B We have 1 randomized control trial (RCT) that proves this, and another coming out soon. in economic impact.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

DECEMBER 4, 2012

It means positioning a brand in ways that local people, say in Bangladesh, can relate to, or at the very least, not be offended by. The democratization of the marketplace enabled by the Internet means anybody — in Three Oaks, Michigan or Hazelmere, UK can sell to the world. Of course this is not just companies and brands.

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Life Beyond Code

MARCH 19, 2013

The Grameen Bank (Bangladesh) revolutionized banking services using a business model driven by People considerations: how to extend banking to, and create employment opportunities for, poor men and women.

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VC Cafe

JULY 31, 2017

We’re now over 500 strong, and have raised over $500,000 which were used to build 6 schools, 14 libraries and 300 scholarships for girls in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam and Tanzania. A community forms around a common goal. Great movements must have a broad human appeal.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Two examples of mass-scale social enterprise are Mexico-based Gente Nueva and Bangladesh-based BRAC. Scaling a social enterprise with organizational growth requires financial and management expertise, as well as incorporation of growth models such as M&A drawn from the private sector.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We are perceived as a health organization, helping those who make less thank $4/day in India, Bangladesh and several countries in Africa, but in fact, we are contributing to livelihoods, unlocking $1.4B We have 1 randomized control trial (RCT) that proves this, and another coming out soon. in economic impact.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

He found inspiration in the success of a mobile-phone business run by the Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Chris Wilmer, a PhD student in chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, solved a challenge that involved the lack of access to clean water in poor villages of developing countries.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Another related trend that I am seeing in the apparel industry is where they are taking the Apple approach and marketing their products as Designed in USA although they may be made somewhere else, say India or Bangladesh or China. Thanks to Kat Rosati, Apparel Booster ! 100% Made in America. Image Credit: Craig Wolfe.

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Transformify

AUGUST 6, 2015

.” According to the CIA World Factbook , almost 75% of the world's 775 million illiterate adults are concentrated in ten countries (in descending order: India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo). Women represent two-thirds of all illiterate adults globally.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Liberia, Argentina, Bangladesh, Lithuania, Trinidad, Brazil, Kosovo, Slovenia, Denmark, Jamaica, South Korea, Norway, Poland & Croatia. Who else currently has elected a female leader ? — Liberia, So get over it. Hillary represents progress for our country. She’s a mother and a wife.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

You don’t get to call for a religious test to enter our country, potentially denying access to more than 1 billion Muslim people in the world including very large populations in Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. You don’t get to create a division between the 3.3

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

. “You don’t get to call for a religious test to enter our country, potentially denying access to more than 1 billion Muslim people in the world including very large populations in Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.” ” (Suster). As a child growing up in Texas, I learned this in eighth grade American history.

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