Youth Entrepreneurship
Where to start from?
Part-2
Information and partnership assistance:
Future Startup (FS) is a media startup aims at reinventing the way how content on startup, entrepreneurship, and making ideas happen are being produced and distributed in the country. Future Startups web portal works as hub for information gathering related to startups storytelling, interviews, feature, news and views.
New startup can accumulate every related source browsing its website.
It has community event, support center, FS Talk, FS Network, IMPACT project and collaborating initiatives as such Launch Partnership, Event Partnership, Content Partnership and Content Sponsorship etc.
Content Development support:
SD ASIA creates content about startups, entrepreneurs and business in Bangladesh by connecting with its audience here in country and tapping into a larger audience overseas. It intends to inspire action through creating market access for entrepreneurs, workshops and capacity development, mentorship, funding linkage alongside startup job network.
Branding toolkit:
Horin Branding servers as a Giant Killer premium agency for launches, re-brands accelerates brands with passion meaning for Small and Medium enterprises. It is most likely the only agency in the country which designs grid, Fibonacci circle and Golden ratio based design for startups. Greater market knowledge in this arena brings most effective marketing results for Horins SME scale clients.
Design and Printing services:
Radia Media Inc is a venture based on all kind of digital designing, pre-press and offset LDEP printing services for Startup and Small enterprises. It has been working for low priced but quality Business cards, Letter heads, Envelops and brochures.
Public Relations services:
An upcoming startup name Newsfeed PR aims to work for all kind public relations services for Startup and SME. Its core vision is to work for Digital PR including preparing press release, press conference, features, various business report and event management dedicating for assisting young entrepreneurs.
Work space facilities:
Now its time to walkabout startups working space. For a new entrepreneur hiring office premises is expense because of office decoration, ICT gadgets and monthly rents are matter of extravagantly budget. Shared workspace or co-working space concept is new in its kind in Bangladesh. This solution reduces economic rubbing among the startups rather improving knowledge sharing and network building.
These common workplaces in Dhaka are geographically dispersed ranging from The Wave and Moar in Banani, LightCastle in Niketan, In-House in Dhanmondi and HubDhaka in Mirpur. And the rent varies from 3000 to 5000 taka a month basis including all kind of office facilities with wifi, working tables with chairs, round table for group discussion, security measures and a tiny kitchen facilities.
Social Media for startup:
Lets talk about influences of social media for startup in Bangladesh. Chakri Khujbo Na, Chakri Debo -a Facebook based group that promotes and supports entrepreneurs.
Through its Newsfeed, people can come to know various queries, success stores and idea generating. It also organizes workshops, Uddokta Hut, Uddokta Bootcamp in order to enable entrepreneurs with bits and pieces of venture funding.
Similar type of fb groups is Entrepreneurship, Bangladesh Young Entrepreneurs Lab, Uddoktar khoje etc.
Quality for entrepreneurship:
There is a debate whether which qualities should have first come in entrepreneurship. People urges like hardworking, creative thinking, confidence, honesty, networking and business knowledge etc. But research finds that patience is the most important good worth to start a startup. Since all the other qualities that people can earn and learn but patience has to tend as it depends on circumstances and varies people to people.
Riyad remarks that during his startup tenure, his first struggling was to find a suitable person to done the right work. Now it overcomes the barrier as Magnito has over sixty of employees. He suggests that days are changing rapidly therefore to start a startup someone should have study before venturing.
The market is so competitive in our country thus before taking any risk one should have some business knowledge or participate in workshops or training may add value, he includes. Conversely, The co-founder and board chairman of Nike, Inc. the world renewed footwear company Phil Knight delivered an address to the Graduating Class at the Award Ceremony 2014 for the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In his speech, he encourages graduates saying that if you have any idea just start it.
There is such a thing as managing creativity. And dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground. And where there is no struggle, there can be no art. And finally, there is this thought. So, if you have idea or determine to do something, just start, study on it , keep trying and have patience.
[Worried about financing for your startup, lets keep your eyes onto my next article titled Funding Mechanism for your startup]
