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Khurram Zafar is currently the Executive Director of the LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship. Prior roles include CIO at Lahore Stock Exchange and founding board member of Plan9 and innovation fellow at the Pakistan Innovation Foundation.

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Promising Pakistani Startups

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The most promising Pakistani startups are gaining a global footprint in terms of funding and customers.     Appography is transforming the way customers interact with call...
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Technology Business Valuations – A Hurdle to VC Deals in Developing Markets of Asia

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Ask prospective investors in Pakistan or Bangladesh for a $200K investment at $800K pre-money valuation and see the jaws drop. Most investors will question...
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The Next Startup Nation: Pakistan?

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Recently dubbed ‘the next big thing’ in Asia with restored investor confidence, favourable conditions for private sector growth and a plethora of talented engineers,...
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3 Ways for Investors to Respond to the Coronavirus

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Impact investors have a critical opportunity to help their portfolio companies navigate the coronavirus pandemic. Here are three concrete steps you can...
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Coronavirus Advice for Businesses – Public Relations

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Balance your coronavirus communication Businesses are known for exaggerating positive news and downplaying negative news. In times of the...
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How the Coronavirus Is Going To Change the Food Sector Forever

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The coronavirus pandemic will radically accelerate automated self-service in the food sector. At the time of writing this,...
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How Coronavirus Is Going To Change Education Forever

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I particularly enjoyed this story about how some people are using videos of themselves paying attention, which they then play on a loop,...
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Cash Handouts to Ease Coronavirus’ Economic Impact Won’t Work.

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As more and more countries go into lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, concerns are mounting about how we’re going to...
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Learning about Asia’s FinTech Boom

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After reading Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built with a friend, we decided to get together for a discussion with the old #StartupCoffeeKL group to...
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An Honest Guide to Silicon Valley Startup Life

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Stationed on the West Coast of the United States, flanked by the blue hues of the Pacific Ocean, is a city that’s...
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3 Ways for Investors to Respond to the Coronavirus

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Impact investors have a critical opportunity to help their portfolio companies navigate the coronavirus pandemic. Here are three concrete steps you can...
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Top 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail

As a venture capital firm, we see thousands of entrepreneurs pitch us their visionary ideas through sleek slide decks and engaging presentations,...
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The Distribution of Wealth – Growing Inequality?

In Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty among other things traced the history of the distribution of income between those whose income is...
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Denise Has the Best Products & Workshops to Help You Live Your Healthiest Life What's your story?A journalist by...
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Lisa Schröder, Operations and Program Lead at F10

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Lisa Facilitates Targeted Collaboration Platforms for Startups in Singapore  What's your story?My story embodies the typical journey of an...
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Anita Patel & Sheetal Avlani, Founders of ZeroYet100

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Anita and Sheetal Craft Effective Vegan Products for Natural Skincare What's your story?We started ZeroYet100 from a pure need...
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Orysia Helps Innovative Start-ups and Businesses Gain Media Attention What's your story?I was supposed to become a journalist, and...
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Thibaut Carminho and Lou Campagna, Founders of Tartes & Pop

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Lou and Thibaut Built the Ultimate Good-Mood Boosting Franchise: Funky Music, a Friendly Staff and Delicious French Tartes What's your...

Clement Fan, Chief Executive Officer at AllForU

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Clement Created a Novel Platform to Connect Businesses to Millennials What's your story?I am the founder of AllForU and...

Germaine Chow, Shawn Lee, Ivan Cai and Benny Ong, Founders of The I Quadrant

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Ivan, Benny, Germaine, & Shawn are Transforming Lives with Financial Education What's your story? We are the founding team of...

He Ruiming, Co-founder at The Woke Salaryman

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Learn From Comic Content How to Boost Your Financial Power What's your story?The Woke Salaryman was started as a...
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Tired of working for others, Anna Ratala founded Slush Singapore, to bring together the leading actors in the global tech ecosystem to accelerate the...
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China’s Knockoff Economy Is A Knockoff

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I am currently working on a book project, working title “surviving disruption”. I am trying to build a set of rules that successful organizations can follow...
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Cash Handouts to Ease Coronavirus’ Economic Impact Won’t Work.

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As more and more countries go into lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, concerns are mounting about how we’re going to...
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5 Important Reasons Not to Raise Capital for Your Startup

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I recently had dinner with co-founders of a startup who’d just raised quite a bit of money for their company, a deal which incidentally...
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Top 10 Mistakes that Startups Make

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As we know there is no limit to the ingenious ways people find to royally screw things up - as a start-up or anywhere...
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Retail Apocalypse Isn’t Disaster, It’s Progress

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In the first week of March, big retail chains announced more than 1,100 planned store closings. That, writes Hayley Peterson at Insider, brings the...
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13 Things You Might Not Know about Startup Investments

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The combination of public market alpha opportunities decreasing and legislation making investing in startups more interesting to more people, means startup investing is on...
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7 Important Books for Entrepreneurs & Their Key Takeaways

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I wanted to present a few of the entrepreneurial books I love. These are the best of the best I’ve found, full stop. I’ve “auditioned”...
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Reasons Why Talented People Have Failed in Their Careers

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