Opinions
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8.6KDirect-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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8.5KLessons 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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19.7KOpinion: 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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7.1KWe’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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6.4KOpinion: 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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6.7KOpinion: 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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4.2KOpinion: 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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4.2KOpinion: 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....
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11.5KOpinion: Saudi banks should be afraid of Halalah, STC Pay and the likes
Five out of the ten largest Saudi companies in terms of market cap are the local banks. Two of these banks were...
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5.1KOpinion: Bootstrapping the startup is a better choice for tech founders than raising venture capital
It had been 2 months since I left the second company I founded, Numetric. In just 3 short years I’d built the...