Hi Startup Community,
My name is Rashad Rahman I am 28 years old. From my childhoods days I always wanted to start my own business.
I have started multiple side hustles in my school days until my colleage days.
In 2016 when I was in my second year college I started a clothing brand and it ran for around 1 year and was closed due to lack of funds
After that I went to work and into a random job only to earn money but my entrepreneurial spirit was not dead .After getting some money from my job i started my second venture in 2018 which was an ecommerce for all thing related desserts.
The startup was running fine and I began to get repeated orders.But the same issue of burn out of funds happened this time also.
After this I began to read all the books related to business, entrepreneurship and any books that I can get my hands on related to this.
And within 1-2 years I have read about 100+ books on business.Then on Covid time I saw a market trend in which there was lot of people who were starting to bake from home and starting a YouTube channel.i saw this opportunity and I restarted my dessert startup but this time different I made a brand from it selling baking essentials only.
But within 3 months of my launch I didn’t get any repeat order.After Covid when all people went outside of their home they didn’t had the passion to bake.So I also closed to that business also.
Then in 2023 I moved to Dubai for starting a Rat Race.After 6 months of working there I began to hate my life I always dreamt of being my own boss.
Until this year May 2023 I began to share my knowledge about startups, business, productivity and the knowledge I got from the books I read.
And within 1 month I began my Instagram began to explode now I have around 16,000 followers. When I started to share my knowledge to the startup community I thought may be within 1 year I will get around 10,000 followers.
This opened my eyes and as an extension of my Instagram channel I have a started my newsletter ✉️in which I share my knowledge about startup, business ,AI.
If you guys are interested in learning more about this feel free to subscribe to newsletter ✉️
Thank you 😊
At the time when I started my business I was only 18,21,23 years where basically I didn’t had any knowledge of business or startups.
When I failed I began to study why I failed after that I gained my knowledge.
Note: I am not sharing any advice for startups just sharing knowledge which I think would be helpful for entrepreneurs.