This week’s FS e-newsletter is filled with fascinating reads. After a very long time, FS interviews are making a comeback. This text options 03 good new interviews with 03 world class operators.
To prime it off, we now have wonderful articles on Time Traveler, a small however rising retailer promoting journey items and gears in Dhaka, and on how artisans merchandise ecommerce firm BeshiDeshi has constructed a rising mobile-first e-learning platform for artisans.
All hyperlinks are beneath. Get pleasure from!
Time Traveler: Three Journey Fans Set Out to Construct an Out of doors and Journey Items Retailer in Dhaka
Bangladesh’s journey items and equipment market is generally damaged. There’s a small formal market however the overwhelming majority of the market operates informally the place prospects looking for trekking boots or tenting tools face days of wandering between casual retailers. No stock methods. No high quality requirements. Handwritten payments. Merchandise seem randomly in WhatsApp teams, and disappear with out warning.
But beneath this dysfunction lay a large rising alternative. Whereas the present marketplace for journey gears will not be that large, it’s altering. The journey market has been rising steadily, however the gear ecosystem stays caught prior to now.
Three journey aficionados noticed the issue clearly throughout a irritating gear-hunting expertise in late 2023. Their answer turned Time Traveler, now Bangladesh’s one of many few professionally operated out of doors and journey items and gears retailers.
Began with a tiny outlet and a part-time operator, the corporate turned worthwhile inside three months. Over the past one 12 months, it has seen constant development, increasing its providing and constructing a neighborhood of loyal prospects.
How BeshiDeshi’s Cellular-First E-Studying Platform Empowers 5,000+ Artisans with Abilities That Promote
BeshiDeshi began in 2018 with a easy mission: join Bangladesh’s expert artisans with prospects via a digital market. From a small operation, the corporate has come a great distance. At this time, the platform hosts over 30,000 merchandise throughout 200+ classes from 5,000+ artisans/product companions. However the staff shortly realized that constructing a platform wasn’t sufficient. Many artisans weren’t absolutely prepared for e-commerce. They had been proficient however lacked primary expertise in pricing, product presentation, images, packaging, and even understanding on-line orders.
The BeshiDeshi staff discovered themselves consistently instructing artisans primary digital commerce expertise over the telephone, in small in-person periods, at any time when issues arose. That want ultimately pushed the corporate to launch an e-learning initiative so artisans might study anytime, wherever, in a format that works for them. That initiative has now grown right into a full-fledged on-line studying platform for artisans in Bangladesh.
A Dialog with Wahid Choudhury, Founder, Kaz Software program (Half II)
Wahid Choudhury is the founder and CEO of Kaz Software program, a Dhaka-based software program outsourcing firm serving shoppers the world over. Based in 2004, Kaz has grow to be one of the fascinating firms in its vertical.
On this second a part of our dialog (learn half one right here), we go deeper into the historical past, operational dynamics and the making of Kaz. Most of all, we attempt to perceive how Kaz has grow to be the corporate it’s as we speak, what makes it tick, and what we are able to study from its journey.
How Star Tech Has Constructed a Dominant IT Merchandise Ecommerce Enterprise: A Dialog With Md Sajedur Rahman, Director, Star Tech Ltd
Md Sajedur Rahman is a Director of Star Tech Ltd, the place he has helped the corporate construct its e-commerce enterprise from scratch into the dominant participant within the IT merchandise e-commerce vertical in Bangladesh.
On this fascinating dialog, we talk about how Star Tech has constructed a dominant e-commerce enterprise and the way it navigated the challenges of the innovator’s dilemma. We discuss concerning the early days of Star Tech’s e-commerce operation, the evolution of the enterprise, methods that labored, the state of its operation as we speak, operational dynamics, and future plans. We additionally talk about how Sajed operates, stays productive, and leads.
A Dialog with Marc Thiry, Director, Operations, GoZayaan
Marc Thiry is the Director of Operations at GoZayaan, one of the fascinating journey tech firms in Bangladesh. Earlier than becoming a member of GoZayaan, Marc constructed a various profession spanning a number of nations and sectors. He started at Jumia, a Rocket Web firm in Africa, the place he mastered the basics of operational administration. He then moved to France to hitch Mano, an e-commerce startup, the place he noticed the corporate scale from a small staff to a company of lots of. His journey ultimately introduced him to Bangladesh, the place he honed his experience at Sundora, a magnificence and cosmetics firm, and Maya, a healthcare startup, earlier than touchdown at GoZayaan.
On this dialog, we discover Marc’s journey to the place he’s as we speak, his work as Director of Operations at GoZayaan, how operations work at a web-based journey company, the science and artwork of operating wonderful operations, and the teachings he is gathered from working and dwelling throughout continents.
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