Opinions
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6.0KThe Pakistani startup spectrum: Wapistanis and local survivors
Most of the VCs in Pakistan today are starting to struggle with deal flow. Deal flow, for those who don’t know, is...
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2.0KDirect-to-Consumer (D2C) opportunities in MENA: The time is right
Value creation in the consumer-goods industry has historically been centered around economies of scale and high barriers of entry in distribution and...
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2.8KLessons from first six months as a VC in Pakistan
It is humbling to know how much I did not know before I became a partner six months ago at Karavan, a...
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5.9KOpinion: Why Pakistani startups are the next big thing
by Aatif Awan, the Founder & Managing Partner of Indus Valley Capital, an early-stage VC fund focused on Pakistani Startups. The article was...
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4.3KWe’ve seen this movie before: Predictions for the tech sector’s next nine months
Shortly after the dot-com crash in 2001, Brooks Brothers, a maker of men’s clothing, took out a tongue-in-cheek advertisement in The Wall...
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3.3KOpinion: Invest in the team, not the technology
Startups grow fast and scale up by virtue of the team’s constant micro-innovations and efforts across different areas of a business rather...
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3.2KOpinion: Why there is no top FinTech hub in MENA yet?
Background: Global Fintech Hub Report for 2018 (launched by Center for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge and some other players) highlights...
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1.7KOpinion: How emerging markets are becoming the new center of gravity for venture capital
It’s official. We are now in the midst of a tsunami of IPOs and market cap creation, where scores of technology unicorns...
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1.7KOpinion: Here’s why Hollywood got entrepreneurship all wrong
Young people tend to fail at launching startups and – NO – you don’t need a genius idea to start a business....