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Photo by Vanessa Garcia on  Pexels.com I was in 12th standard, 2012 was the year. After my Higher Secondary School Certificate exam, I was preparing for the University Admission Test in Udvash Admission Care (a local admission coaching center in Bangladesh). I vividly remember the day when I first met Shohag Bhai, the founder of Udvash. Shohag Bhai was teaching us Higher Secondary Physics that day. He is indeed a man of character, one of the very few persons whom I respectfully admire from the core of my heart. I recall a certain incident on that day when at one point he asked the class, ”Can anybody answer me why we learn mathematics? You are learning calculus, geometry, trigonometry, mechanics – all the tedious tasks sapping your juice outta brain cells. So where in your life will you apply calculus? Will you need trigonometry to be a BCS cadre? Or to write down your shopping list? Apart from basic addition subtraction and multiplication, nothing will really be necessary dire...

Photo by Laker on  Pexels.com 1. Thinking ability sharpens gradually. We fortify our brain by resonating the same thoughts again and again. In other words, we deposit our thoughts inside the brain. A metaphoric resemblance can be cholesterol deposits inside our hearts. There are two types of cholesterol: LDL (Bad one) and HDL (Good one). Considerably, most of the time we consume the LDL more: just like our bad thinking deposits inside the brain, Asif coined this term. Photo by Trace Hudson on  Pexels.com and eventually, our thinking process becomes toxic. 2. Serendipitous, treacherous, whatever you call it, we are on the verge of a moral breakdown to KKD International. The 65 years old man has thought almost everything that we were planning to do with our company. Shamefully we preserved our idea secret and kept listening to him. Probably, he will think that we have snatched his idea; BETRAYAL! Can we go for a partnership? (Greenwheel Bd, Tech Teacher, Cycle Wala, all ...

Photo by Anna Shvets on  Pexels.com Putting this in my blog to remind myself… A couple days ago I told a reporter that we expected about a third of the companies we funded to succeed. Actually, I was being conservative. I’m hoping it might be as much as a half. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could achieve a 50% success rate? Another way of saying that is that half of you are going to die. Phrased that way, it doesn’t sound good at all. In fact, it’s kind of weird when you think about it, because our definition of success is that the founders get rich. If half the startups we fund succeed, then half of you are going to get rich and the other half are going to get nothing. If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke, but it’s actually a pretty good description of what happens in a typical startup. It certainly describes what happened in Viaweb. We avoided dying till we got rich. It was really close, too. When we were visiting Yahoo to talk about being acq...

Photo by Tatiana Syrikova on  Pexels.com I heard this first from Asif: Carried Away – to arouse to a high and often excessive degree of emotion or enthusiasm. Last day, 4 February, I had an informal meeting with my business mentor Prof. AYM Abdullah. The great man he is, I’ve seldom seen a personality quite contradictory like him. By nature, sometimes he seems so soft and poetic, the father in him arouses when I and Asif seek business advice from him. At the same time, he seems ruthless and stern while guiding us towards practicality. I shall discuss him another day, long discussion indeed. Last night after having the meeting, I was quite out of conscience. Could barely feel anything happening around me. Perhaps a perfect example of being carried away. The synopsis of the meeting was, we two are still inexperienced and immature. We are yet to see the practical episodes of life: which is quite true. Being said all this, he agreed to finance us to our new venture. I was happy...

Photo by Ekaterina Bolovtsova on  Pexels.com People have their own world views based on the information influx they constantly receive. You ask a newspaper editor the impact of the internet, he is most likely to espouse negative outcomes of technology more than the positive ones. Even his objection towards generation X and their mobile addiction is somehow linked with his dwindling newspaper sales due to ubiquitous online news portals. by Alex Green on  Pexels.com If you carry the editor’s opinion about the internet and turn that into knowledge, you will most likely be unreasonably ending up adding internet drawbacks with your day-to-day activities as well. At a friends’ meet-up, you shall use that knowledge to argue how the internet is spoiling your kids these days (Maybe you are correct, but I want to highlight how someone else’s opinion has influenced you, perhaps subconsciously). Another aspect of information influx is the impact of the recency effect. Even I remember ...