Entrepreneurship

The Slow Collapse

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Pakistan media and technology · independent analysis · may 2026 TheSlowCollapse. Pakistan’s news industry is sitting on 111 million potential readers, a diaspora wiring $38.3 billion home every year, and the most influential audience in the country living on X. They are reaching almost none of them. Here’s the data. Here’s why. Here’s what they … Read more

The Silent Storm: AI Is About to Eat Traditional Businesses in the Global South & GCC

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I just spent the last 30 days on the road away from Canada to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Abu Dhabi, Oman, Dubai spending time with founders from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Myanmar, and every corner of the global south. Every single one of them was cautiously optimistic about the future. Smiling. Talking growth. Common thread..”next year … Read more

Pakistan’s Software Export Board: A Legacy Trap in the AI Era

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In Pakistan’s noisy tech streets freelancers doing midnight sprints around power cuts, startups scrimping to keep servers alive, founders flying to meet clients because local procurement rarely buys from them. The Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) sits like an institutional fossil. Founded in the dial up era to “promote Pakistan’s IT industry,” it still evaluates … Read more

Dais nay tum ko chora tha ya tum nay dais ko chora tha ? (Did you leave your country or did your country leave you?)

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Before you start reading. I urge you to watch the above first to get the context. If you cant relate to it. Dont read further. In the summer of 2017 I put out a survey based on the  request from all those friends, colleagues, family members professional acquaintances and aspirants from the Pakistani diaspora who … Read more

Enemies at the Gate. Bas Kardo yeah pouchna kay PayPal Kab Aye ga?

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There’s a lullaby for suffering And a paradox to blame But it’s written in the scriptures And it’s not some idle claim   Every month, every week, every day, someone is hell bent on asking, probing or claiming something to do with a payments play. I say “stop it.” The answer is self evident. Like … Read more

Tech bandits come to Pakistan: Economic Hit[wo]men in Startup land

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Pakistan has many internal and external aggressors. We cant blame every thing on external elements, as we are, ourselves to blame for letting things get out of hand. A strange thing is happening in Pakistan, in the race to the top of Tech stardom. Before we dive in to the details, to understand what’s going … Read more

The Game of Assumptions. Road to Pakistan’s GMV

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This is joint post by Jawwad Farid & Faizan Siddiqi * Before we start let us all take a deep breath and try to ascertain what GMV means. Gross Merchandise Volume From Wikipedia Gross merchandise volume or GMV is a term used in online retailing to indicate a total sales dollar value for merchandise sold through a particular … Read more

**k your Accelerator / Saith Investor & get ready for an IPO

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Are you an Entrepreneur with either 100k MAU or between 30-40% Margins in your business(Not Just Tech)? Are you struggling to scale beyond this? Read on. Are you interested in Scale? Chinook Strategy will invest its resources for an 8%-10% revenue share to either lead you to a desirable seed round, exit, IPO or institutional … Read more