article thumbnail

Nitex Takes Fashion Forward

Austin Startup

Whenever you hear about Bangladesh you only see the bad news. With Hasan’s background in fashion, an industry worth $22 billion dollars a year in their own backyard (making Bangladesh the second largest worldwide supplier), they found a market worth exploring. Arifin and I discussed what we could do to change that,” Mahdi recounted.

article thumbnail

How Innovation Can Help Frontier Markets

YoungUpstarts

Some countries known as frontier markets are Argentina, Lebanon, Vietnam, Nigeria, Oman, Bahrain, and Bangladesh. The bottom line is that emerging and frontier markets are still different from each other. These are just a few countries from the MSCI Frontier Markets Index. Investing in Frontier Markets.

Bahrain 113
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

Whole countries such as Bangladesh will be flooded, should we see such a dramatic rise of our oceans. Global Warming is already a major contributor to unpredictable and often devastating changes in weather patterns. A large number of experts suggest that by the turn of the century the sea levels will rise by as much as two meters.

article thumbnail

[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

Faced with the rising costs of labour, materials and land in Chinese cities, companies are increasingly sourcing from other Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Rising consumer demand in China itself has also led its own manufacturers to favour selling domestically.

article thumbnail

Three Megatrends That Will Affect Everybody’s Business

YoungUpstarts

For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? Some of the major changing tides of demography may have important political, economic, and potentially military consequences.

article thumbnail

When Third is First

thebarefootvc

Lending: In 1983, Muhammed Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, based on the notion that the poor were credit-worthy and that a model of positive “peer pressure” would lead to repayment of loans. Something Kenyans realized many years ago.

Africa 106
article thumbnail

How To Forward Business Phone Calls To Mobile Phones

YoungUpstarts

That is, a client in Bangladesh, Ohio or Akron, is able to call the same number and get the call routed to the same destination, and never know that they did not call a direct line. Call Forwarding offers uniformity for a business that operates in distinctive parts of the world or country.

Mobile 113