Someone wise once said, “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't.” Truly, these words are aligned with a popular saying, “With great risks come great rewards” or with, what Stan Lee wrote about Spiderman, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
Let me begin by introducing Brad Feld, an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. Feld's model, called 'The Boulder Thesis,' concludes that for a startup ecosystem to be built in any place, four things are necessary:
Quality is the call of the day. Discerning consumers or clientele are not satisfied with anything less than the best. In the human resources development
What should be the angle of my piece?” I asked myself. “Should I justify the relevance of population dynamics for development, or present the current state
Politics and economy seem to be uncomfortably matched in present day Bangladesh. On one hand, the macroeconomic indicators such as the growth of GDP per annum, the ascent of the per capita income to the level of the low middle income countries the growth of export earning over time and impressive foreign currency reserve of USD 27 billion dollars. Bangladesh Bank all appear to draw a positive and optimistic picture of the country's economy.
”Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare,” states an old Japanese proverb. Indeed, if we cannot dream, how can we achieve anything? If we do not take actions, what is the point of seeing dreams? So, it is action with vision that can change the society and the country we live in. More than four decades ago we fought the War of Liberation to materialise our long-cherished dream of an independent and sovereign Bangladesh, and which did not come to us effortlessly; rather we had to take up arms and sacrifice millions of lives to achieve our goal.
It is a matter of pride to recollect the initiatives of our scientists of the Atomic Energy Centre, Dhaka, in bringing the first ever
The great poet Rabindranath Tagore used to frequent his tenants in Kushtia, Rajshahi and Pabna during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in
”Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare,” states an old Japanese proverb. Indeed, if we cannot dream, how can we achieve anything? If we do not take actions, what is the point of seeing dreams? So, it is action with vision that can change the society and the country we live in. More than four decades ago we fought the War of Liberation to materialise our long-cherished dream of an independent and sovereign Bangladesh, and which did not come to us effortlessly; rather we had to take up arms and sacrifice millions of lives to achieve our goal.
Politics and economy seem to be uncomfortably matched in present day Bangladesh. On one hand, the macroeconomic indicators such as the growth of GDP per annum, the ascent of the per capita income to the level of the low middle income countries the growth of export earning over time and impressive foreign currency reserve of USD 27 billion dollars. Bangladesh Bank all appear to draw a positive and optimistic picture of the country's economy.
What should be the angle of my piece?” I asked myself. “Should I justify the relevance of population dynamics for development, or present the current state
Quality is the call of the day. Discerning consumers or clientele are not satisfied with anything less than the best. In the human resources development
Let me begin by introducing Brad Feld, an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. Feld's model, called 'The Boulder Thesis,' concludes that for a startup ecosystem to be built in any place, four things are necessary:
Someone wise once said, “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't.” Truly, these words are aligned with a popular saying, “With great risks come great rewards” or with, what Stan Lee wrote about Spiderman, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
With this instalment, The Daily Star's silver jubilee special supplements themed On High Road to Progress comes to an end. This part, titled, Way Forward, explores the bigger picture, and analyses the challenges, and the possible paths towards progress.
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