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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their tasks in method consulting and financial investment banking in London previously this year in order to discovered a mobile-only education platform start-up, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with an objective “to make education more available to 100 million Pakistani trainees.” Having matured in Karachi, youth buddies Ahmed and Aziz …

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The 27 most popular online courses on Udemy, one of our favorite e-learning platforms

When you purchase through our links, Insider might make an affiliate commission. Learn more. Udemy; Alyssa Powell/Insider Udemy has about 130,000 online courses, covering a variety of varied subjects.Courses provide hours of video, short articles, resources, certificates of conclusion, and life time gain access to.Listed below, discover Udemy'' s most popular classes- from an MBA …

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Investor Alexa von Tobel on the biggest driver of social-media-fueled stock trading

Alexa von Tobel has always felt strongly that too many people are shut out of the stock market. She felt this as a 23-year-old who didn’t have $5,000 to open a brokerage account. She felt it while building LearnVest, a financial planning startup she launched in 2009 and sold in 2015 to Northwestern Mutual for …

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Indian startups diversify their businesses to offset COVID-19 induced losses

E-commerce giant Flipkart is planning to launch a hyperlocal service that would enable customers to buy items from local stores and have those delivered to them in an hour and a half or less. Yatra, an online travel and hotel ticketing service, is exploring a new business line altogether: Supplying office accessories. Flipkart and Yatra …

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‘Am I as brave as I think I am?’ MIT Media Lab student Arwa Mboya on the aftermath of a scandal

It’s been another hard week at MIT. Our campus has been divided by revelations of inappropriate fundraising, coverups, and the harboring of far too many tech geniuses who seemingly put their own interests and careers over the safety of women, among other marginalized groups. As a chaplain to students and faculty at the Institute, but …

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