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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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Why Your Team Will Need Skilled Idea Curators To Succeed in the AI Era

Entrepreneurs' Organization

That involves investing in training and education that emphasizes critical thinking, industry expertise, and communication. Contributed by Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, who serves as the CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts.

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Which software consultants do startups love to work with?

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Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. Consultant: Appetiser Apps. Consultant: Aloa. ” Consultant: Ajmera InfoTech. Consultant: Cultum. Consultant: ManagedKube.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

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This person was educated at the best US schools and had worked for a top-tier strategy consulting firm – one of the big 3. With a CEO that likable, smart, educated and accomplished it made board members squirm that I was willing to call bullshit. Analysis Paralysis. The CEO had never met with any of them.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. MBA fine, but not required.

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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

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Registered with both FINRA and SEC, Equifund is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and educating investors. He is committed to fostering an informed, engaged investment community, aligning business growth with investor education. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.

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14 EO Members Share The Best Thing About Entrepreneurship

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Education changed my life. That is why I support university education of young women. I believe in the transformative power of education. With education, a woman changes, she changes generations, and then the world changes. I was born in a small village without electricity. and more articles from the EO blog. .