Building an Ecosystem: Office Hours
Book in some time for advice or a catch up 🕔
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This Week in Startups
💰 Funding
Walee, an tech-enabled influencer marketing start-up in Pakistan, acquires Mirrorr, a UAE based counterpart.
Nayapay, a consumer fin-tech, raises $13m.
📚 Reading
Ozair Ali’s on the Verge continues to explore the opportunity in disrupting Pakistan’s banking landscape.
🎧 Listening
The Misaal Podcast hosted Umar Khan, co-founder of SocialBlu, on the social media management landscape.
Packy McCormick’s Not Boring hosts Tazah’s co-founder Abrar Ul-Haq.
Building an Ecosystem: Office Hours
I believe that building an ecosystem requires opening doors for those around you and working together. One of the core aims of setting up this newsletter was to broaden access to knowledge, insight, and opportunities in the Pakistani tech ecosystem and help startups to thrive.
However, in many ways, Notes of Pakistan is a startup itself. I’m exploring what works and what does not. The only commitment, I’ve made to myself is that a newsletter of some form should go out every week. This week, I’ve been a lot busier than normal and I thought it would be a good opportunity to try something new.
Following the advice of Paul Graham, I’m going to ‘do things that don’t scale’. Instead of spending a few hours drafting my newsletter, I’ll be opening up my calendar here for anyone to book some time in.
There are no rules but please don’t book more than one slot and broadly I’d prefer to keep conversations on the topics of venture, startups, founding companies, joining startups, and investing in technology.
Know a friend looking to break into venture, considering starting a new company, or assessing multiple job offers? Feel free to share.
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