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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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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

They don't have great marketing channels to those clubs and the faculty don't advocate for participation as part of your education. Entrepreneurship education needs hard skills training. If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student.

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Behind the scenes: The challenges of building an EdTech startup

Startup Grind

Many have tried to revolutionize education and failed. Pre-MVP Stage: This is the stage where you would do the market research and early customer development activities. Education startups need science and research based evidence on their approach to learning and education.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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From Solo Entrepreneur to Franchisor: 20 Years of Business Growth With EO

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This unfortunate mix of personal and professional concerns made me feel alone in my struggles. I used to suffer from imposter syndrome , feeling like I was less than my fellow entrepreneurs. This isn’t to say that it’s always been a smooth journey. Joining EO was a game-changer.

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On Leadership. And Diversity of Character.

Both Sides of the Table

Try managing a diverse team of people with different ages, education levels, incomes and motivations.” And for my sins I was then handed a mixed team that was both clients and Andersen employees. His development this year was really heart warming. ” I could see she was right. Jake is the opposite of me on the field.