PlanX is pleased to announce its collaboration with The Unilever Foundry Network in Pakistan. Through this global initiative innovators will be presented with an opportunity to partner with one of the world’s most successful consumer goods companies. Under this initiative Unilever seeks to work with, mentor and support budding entrepreneurs…
PlanX collaborates with Facebook to bring Facebook for Developers
PlanX hosts Facebook for Developers Conference Lahore, Pakistan – October 14th, 2016 For the first time in Pakistan, Facebook for Developers in collaboration with PlanX, will be conducting a one day workshop on Thursday 3rd November, 2016. Facebook for Developers helps you build new platforms, grow and monetize your app. This…
Disrupt Pakistan 2.0 takes place at Dojo, focuses on hardware startups
DISRUPT PAKISTAN 2.0 “Oh, the times, they are a changin’ “. Stepping in to Dojo’s co-working space, I reflected, to a Bob Dylan song that was playing in the background, on how Pakistan’s startup ecosystem has truly changed in the past 2 years. The 3G/4G Internet Boom has made…
Club Internet: Connecting the Next Four Billion
Connecting the Next Four Billion In August 2013, Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera, Nokia and Qualcomm partnered with Facebook, a social services company to launch Internet.org. The main aim of this partnership was to improve internet access for people around the world. Even though Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO,…
Plan9 Alumni Return as Mentors in “9Stars” event
Plan9 Stars Bringing you another exciting news from the entrepreneurial world of Plan9! In the battle for greatness, Plan9 has engaged its star alumni to help the current startups make a mark in history by joining Plan9′s Board of Mentors. Plan9 hopes to make the most of their star startups’ individual…
Up Close with Humayun Mazhar – Pakistan’s answer to VC
Meet Humayun Mazhar, the Founder of CresVentures. I had the chance to sit down with Humayun Mazhar, founder and CEO of CresVentures, a wing of the Crescent Group focused on investing in Pakistan’s startup ecosystem. His story is one of struggle, mentorship, and optimism for the future. Sitting on the…
Meet UI/UX Developer Khawaja Mubashar Mansoor of Plan9 Acclaim
Khawaja Mubashar Mansoor UI/UX Analyst Cyphlon, CarButlers, JustPrice.Pk, ForiEdu Many wonder why UI/UX (the elegant combination of User Interface Design and User Experience Design) are so important in developing websites. Priorities are normally given to back-end developers to develop products, but why is this the case. To uncover this enigma,…
Get Hooked on Beauty – an exclusive interview with Sahr Said
Startups in this country are truly taking off. The myth of Pakistan lacking any capable investors has long been banished with the portfolio that Fatima Ventures has presented to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Pakistan. Further bolstering its repertoire was a recent investment round of $280,000 USD led by them in…
Here’s BlisFix – a Revolutionary SaaS for Healthcare
Many a times we are told that starting a business alone is madness and that one should settle as corporate slave rather than dreaming about romancing in the world of startups where sky is the limit. It is true that startups require a lot of determination and endless sleepless nights…
EDI holds Startup BootCamp, invites 4 Startup Founders
The Entrepreneurship Development Institute is responsible for uplifting the entrepreneurial community of Pakistan, primarily through the circulation of its magazine publication, Startup Magazine, and the annually held Startup Expo (Pakistan’s biggest entrepreneurial festival). However, it was time to provide some more food for thought for the community. Many of the winners of…