Ruhul Kader is the co-founder of Future Startup, an online media platform and information hub for startups in Bangladesh. The document discusses Future Startup's services including its website, business database called FS Index, and in-house content marketing wing called Story Lab. It also emphasizes the importance of universities for experimenting with new ideas. The document provides advice on living life to the fullest instead of procrastinating, and encourages building new, unique things rather than copying existing models. It suggests several books and concepts for learning about entrepreneurship.

1. On Life & Building Things
Ruhul Kader
Co-founder, www.futurestartup.com
Email: ruhul@futurestartup.com

2. Content
● Future StartUp [www.futurestartup.com]
● FS Index [www.fsindex.co]
● Startup community in Bangladesh
● Storytelling
● Universities and experiment
● Hot trends

3. Future Startup [www.futurestartup.com]
An information, Insight, Knowledge and Data hub on startup,
entrepreneurship,and business

4. Future Startup [dot] com:
online media platform
FSindex.co:
Business graph of Bangladesh
Story Lab:
In-house content marketing wing
FS Events:
Events for entrepreneurs and startups

5. University is the best place to
experiment, fail, build things and
explore

6. On Life
“You are living as if destined to live for ever; your own frailty never occurs
to you; you don’t notice how much time has already passed, but squander
it as though you had a full and overflowing supply — though all the while
that very day which you are devoting to somebody or something may be
your last. You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all
that you desire… How late it is to begin really to live just when life must
end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our
fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few
have arrived!” -
from ‘Sceneca On Shortness of life’

7. Important trends
● Sharing
● on-demand
● Collaboration
● AI
● Robotics
● Hardware meets software
● All things digital
● Independent Work

8. On Building things
“The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry
Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark
Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these
guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to
make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes
the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every
time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation
is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something
fresh and strange.”
-Peter Thiel, Zero to One

9. Lessons
● Niche is the key
● Great ideas are often overlooked and simple
● Be generous.
● Anything great takes time to happen. Have patience
● Hard work is the competitive advantage
● Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone
● Small is beautiful
● All that glitters is not gold

10. Reading
● Zero to one by Peter Thiel
● Seneca on shortness of life
● Brand Breakout: How Emerging Market Brands Will Go Global by Jan-Benedict E. M. Steenkamp
and Nirmalya Kumar
● The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
● Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
● What’s Mine is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live by Rachel
Botsman and Roo Rogers
Concepts
● Moore’s law
● Parkinson’s Law
● 80/20 Principle
● Blog of Paul Graham

11. Ask me anything?

12. Contact
email: ruhul@futurestartup.com
Web: www.futurestartup.com