{"id":29499,"date":"2022-10-29T19:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=29499"},"modified":"2022-10-29T19:15:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:15:34","slug":"congenial-ecosystem-needed-for-startups-to-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2022\/10\/29\/congenial-ecosystem-needed-for-startups-to-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Congenial ecosystem needed for startups to thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News Desk: Startups are doing relatively well in Bangladesh but their success rate is not quite satisfactory owing to problems from a lack of access to finance to age-old valuation process to a dearth of private equity and incubation, said speakers and industry people today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A startup-friendly ecosystem in the country has not been substantially equipped, but startups can be a great economic enabler for Bangladesh,&#8221; said Rizwan Rahman, president of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce &#038; Industry (DCCI).<\/p>\n<p>He spoke at a seminar styled &#8220;Journey of CMSMEs from startup to scale up: prospects &#038; challenges&#8221; organised by the chamber.<br \/>\nIn Bangladesh, there are more than 1,200 active startups and around 200 new startups join the industry every year.<\/p>\n<p>Startups made around $800 million in investment and created 15 lakh formal and informal jobs in the last decade, according to a press release of the DCCI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Desk: Startups are doing relatively well in Bangladesh but their success rate is not quite satisfactory owing to problems from a lack of access to finance to age-old valuation process to a dearth of private equity and incubation, said speakers and industry people today. &ldquo;A startup-friendly ecosystem in the country has not been substantially equipped, but startups can be a great economic enabler for Bangladesh,&rdquo; said Rizwan Rahman, president of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry (DCCI). He spoke at a seminar styled &ldquo;Journey of CMSMEs from startup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29501,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29499\/revisions\/29501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}