For Saif Ibn Mazhar, the road to entrepreneurship was not easy. His first venture, Think Forest, was formed with a lot of hard work and high expectations. But his very first try at being an entrepreneur did not work out as expected, and the firm had to be closed down in a few months. ‘It was a major setback for us,’ he said to us. ‘We just started off at that time, and we had to close it down. We…
Sometimes, becoming an entrepreneur is not something a person plans to be but becomes one by chance. While setting up a startup was never in the plans of the founders of Tech Roasters, Mohaimen Ahmed and Faisal Azad, fate had something else in store for them. The founders MA: We never planned to be entrepreneurs. We were freelancers. I was a student at North South University in their 2009 batch, and I met Faisal there as well. Both of us…
After three years, Hubdhaka is going to bid adieu to its oldest member, Dhaka Insider, in the coming March. Starting its business in 2014, Dhaka Insider was the first member at Hubdhaka’s coworking space. We caught up with Rafaat Wasik Ahmed of Dhaka Insider, to share his thoughts on his journey of coworking and about the plans for his firm in the future. Graduating from the 16th batch of IBA-DU, one of the most prestigious universities of Bangladesh, Mr. Ahmed…
