68 startups attend at Huawei ICT incubator boot camp

Startup Bangladesh Limited and Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) has organised a three-day boot camp at Dhaka for the 68 startups selected in the 1st round of Huawei ICT Incubator program.

The camp of this competition has been focused to train the participants on how to launch and make their business sustainable, said the press release.

This bunch of startups has been shortlisted by Startup Bangladesh Limited and iDEA from total 180 applications. The screening has been done based on business Idea (pitch deck), Team Formation, Feasibility and Traction.

During the three-day program, the shortlisted startups have attended various sessions on Startup ideation and validation, Go-to-market and scaling, growth marketing, how to develop product and how to get feedback on product, how to set financial strategy and how to do financial analysis, hiring and onboarding team members, sales strategy and negotiation, developing customer base, legal and ethical issues, fundraising, how to adapt emerging technologies, and KPI tracking and valuation methods.

During the program Siddartho Goshwami, Senior Consultant, Head of Operations, iDEA, BCC, ICT Division gave introductory speech and Mr. R H M Alaol Kabir, Senior Consultant (Senior Assistant Secretary), iDEA, ICT Division gave welcome speech. A total of 11 trainers conducted training in the boot camp.

The trainers were Mr. Minhaz Anwar, Chief Story Teller, Betterstories Limited, Mr. Zia Ashraf, COO & Co-Founder, Chaldal Ltd, Mr. Munir Hasan, Head of Digital Transformation and Youth Activities, Prothom Alo & President, BDOSN, Mr. Ahmed Fahad, Vice President (Product), Pathao Ltd, Mr. Bijon Islam, CEO, Light Castle Partners, Ms. Ismat Jahan, Head of HR, eGeneration Ltd, Mr. Ilmul Haque Sajib.