Entrepreneurship Assignment No: 1

Haji Muhammad Ali (Owner of Student

Biryani)

Haji Muhammad Ali started his business in 1969 at that

time he was 40-years old, and the concept was selling
biryani to student returning home. He introduce his
café name as Café Student. His café look like a small
dhaaba with a bamboo roof supported by wooden
pillars with serving staff comprising of two elder sons
and with limited seating capacity. The cafe started with one daig of home cooked
biryani serving about 40 people per day. The outlet was surrounded by various
educational institutions, which was the target market.

A small shop owner named his small business venture, cafe student from where
he would sell students of nearby schools biryani. Today, the same venture is one
of largest local food chains in Pakistan and is a household name, Student Biryani.
Asides from serving biryani, now student biryani serves other dishes as well like
shami kabab, nihari, chicken burgers, chicken nuggets, karhai, rabri, rasmalai.
They also open their own catering to local events in the Pakistan. They also cater
for home or corporate events. People on their way to spend a day at the beach
often pick up a daig of biryani on their way. The cost of eating is usually around
PKR 250/person. After Hardworking and dedication to his business, the company
has hundreds of employees in scores of branches in Pakistan as well as abroad
like Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and UAE.

The Story of Haji Muhammad Ali is very interesting and inspiring as well, in this
whole story I learn one thing that if you want to do something then don’t waste
your time, there is no work which is small or big if you are committed with your
goal let’s do it. One day your efforts, hardworking, determination will paid off.

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Radha Mohanlal – CEO, Asaan Taleem

Radha Mohanlal is a force to be reckoned with when it

comes to technology and innovation. Having endured the
same difficulties faced by a significant part of the
population when it comes to education, Mohanlal set out
to resolve the problems of access to education. Having to
travel several hours for just one lecture during her studies,
she realized that the availability of technology could be used to resolve this issue.
She started a Facebook page by the name of Asaan Taleem through which she
started giving educational and career-related counseling. College students could
use this page as a medium to get their queries answered. Eventually, her efforts
led her to become incubated at P@SHA’s incubation program, Nest I/O. That’s
when her initiative took the form of a social enterprise and emerged in a more
mature form.

The project which started off as a small Facebook page has since grown to be a
community of 2,000+ students and 160+ women tutors that are ready to
correspond with students regarding their queries, wrote technology website
Techjuice, which included Mohanlal in its list of 25-under-25 Pakistani in tech. 

The Story of Radha Mohan Lal is very inspiring, in this whole story I learn one
thing that as being a man, if Radha take this type of decisions then why we not
take such type of steps, in our daily life we also facing such types of issues then
why we not come up with new ideas and work on them.

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Malik Riaz

Malik Riaz started his career as the lowly clerk in Islamabad,

his educational background is still controversial but his
close friends and the one who know him closely do rate
him as the ultimate genius. Malik Riaz has its family
background as a wealthy and strong ancestor ship but
when the contacting business of his father collapsed they
have to spend a brutal time as he was just 19 years old.
Malik Riaz, who have created his own name and got fame
and strength all on his own.

At the time of his marriage he was so poor and he have no money to buy the
medicine for her newly born daughter and that is the modesty of this guy that he
never forgets what the situation was when he was poor which makes him really
generous and kind towards the poor.

He took loan from his friend and started the business of contracting and building
and after several years of striving and hard work, in 1996 when he got the
contract which changed his life, as Malik Riaz got the contract to build a society of
about 2,388 Kanals, as it was just the ordinary construction but it was the master
mind of Malik Riaz which gave birth to one of the most successful and advanced
housing society known as the Bahria Town, and now Bahria Town is considered to
be one of the most luxury housing scheme in Pakistan and Malik Riaz is known as
the most successful businessmen of the state.

The Story of Malik Riaz is very much inspiring, in this whole story I learn one thing
that one day your efforts, hardworking, determination will paid off. We need to
work hard to achieve our goal, we have to move forward in any situation we have
to cut down those barriers which comes between our goals.

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Jehan Ara Director of (Pakistan Software

Houses Associations)

Jehan Ara is the President of the Pakistan Software

Houses Association for IT & ITES (P@SHA). She has
been spearheading efforts at P@SHA for the past 17
years during which time she was responsible for
developing the P@SHA brand and for creating
linkages between P@SHA and local and international
partners.
Jehan has vast experience in Marketing, Communications and interactive new
media in Hong Kong, the Far East, the UAE and Pakistan. She is a motivator, an
entrepreneur, a social activist and a strong propagator of extending the power
and use of Information and Communication Technologies beyond pure traditional
business, to empower and enable communities.
Jehan sits on the Advisory Boards of various universities including Habib
University and IBA. She is also the President of Bolo Bhi, a Research Based Civil
Society organization that focuses on Open Access. Jehan is also on the World Bank
Advisory Group on Gender Diversity. She is also a Board Member of the Institute
of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) which is a nonprofit research
organization established to promote, assist, support, simulates, undertake and
manage policy research and advocacy. Jehan is also a Member of the PM’s
Taskforce for IT & Telecom.
She set up The Nest IO – a technology incubator in Karachi in January 2015, with
the support of Google for Entrepreneurs to help provide a platform for aspiring
technology businesses in the buzzing city of Karachi. Since then The Nest IO has
incubated 174+ startup businesses and created a strong community of young
people.
The Story of Jehan Ara is very inspiring, in this whole story I learn one thing that
as being a man, if Jehan Ara take this type of decisions then why we not take such
type of steps, Jehan Ara provides platform to all students to share their idea and

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start their business or new startup. Their organization also support financially to
poor students.

Mudassir Sheikha Co-Founder of Careem

A Karachi born Mudassir Sheikha was taken aback when he
discovered that Pakistan has only one billion dollar company,
outside the oil and gas industry, that is an FMCG company.
For the next 10 years, he set a goal for building an institution
from the region that delivers great products and creates a
positive impact on the regional population.

Sheikha is an alumnus of University of Southern California and Stanford

University. Building upon his experience of working in a Silicon Valley early-stage
VC fund, and a mobile testing startup that was acquired by $60 million, he started
his mission to develop something meaningful after leaving a secure career at
McKinsey. His Swedish colleague Magnus Olsson joined his mission. Sheikha gave
himself the ambitious time period of just six weeks to roll out the first iteration of
Careem and be in the market at the earliest. It was a very short time to build any
kind of technology, and they skipped a lot of features and launched the service. It
has been over years and Careem has not built some of the features in the original
bucket list. Turned out they were just false assumptions of the market.

If an entrepreneur is truly committed to solving problems and reducing

inefficiencies then they’ll carry on with that, come what may. And to build lasting
institutions, ones that will outlive them as well as their future generations,
founders need to treat the early years with the utmost of care.

“There’s nothing wrong with an exit, but it shouldn’t be your overwhelming

priority,” he stated. To further explain his point about culture and setting
examples, Mudassir said he frequently takes red-eye flights and inconvenient
connections just to save money.

“You have to think big from day one,” said Mudassir. “Sure you can open a retail
store, but it’s going to be difficult to make it into a large business – a billion-dollar
business. The first thing you have to target is a big problem and a big
opportunity.”
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