About Us

The Startup School is an e-learning platform where Pakistani entrepreneurs and founders have collaborated to create courses that will help you launch your own startup. It is the digitization of entrepreneurial knowledge and space in Pakistan. It aims to assist people who want to break out of their comfort zone but don't know how to set up multiple revenue streams. These courses are not only educational, but also nurturing, as they assist students in shifting paradigms. What may appear to be a flaw may turn out to be an untapped opportunity, such as the mental shifts required to become an entrepreneur.

Where Pakistani Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders get Practical Advice on the mindset and skill-set required to succeed specific to Pakistani business landscape
Mark Odinson
Founder

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Our Vision
To digitise the entrepreneurial knowledge collected from the successful founders and deliver to the masses of Pakistan.
Our Mission
The Startup School aims to inspire, teach, showcase and celebrate the existing and aspiring entrepreneurs and job-creators!

Creating Pakistan’s First ever e-learning platform that houses entrepreneurial knowledge shared from the most seasoned entrepreneurs and visionaries. This knowledge will be converted into well-articulated online courses that will equip a common man to launch his own start-up. The Startup School is on a mission to help build more leaders and job creators in Pakistan by enabling a thriving Entrepreneurial and Small Business Ownership culture.

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Learn from the minds who have done it before!

Meet the Trainers

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Kamran Rizvi
Kamran founded KZR Associates (www.kzr.co) in 1991 and pioneered the self-improvement and organization development (OD) movement in Pakistan. From 2002 onwards, KZR has initiated several organizations in its place that are actively serving the corporate, non-profit and youth sectors of Pakistan
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Qaiser Abbas
Qaiser is helping world’s top multinational companies, governments, educational institutes, and non-profit organizations through his cutting-edge leadership teambuilding and coaching tools. Qaiser has coached superstars of sports, movies, media, science and business. His over 200 clients include fortune 500 companies like Unilever, Philip Morris, World Bank, WHO, Nestle, Total, P&G, Coca Cola, and many more.
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Samar Hasan
Driven to create a positive impact, Samar has been working in the fields of entrepreneurship, higher education, financial inclusion, democracy, governance & international relations since 2003. Co-founded Epiphany as a catalyst for promoting impact/social/women entrepreneurship in Pakistan. in 2016. The firm is focused on enterprise & human development; diversity, inclusion & sustainability, impact consulting in the areas of strategic communications, strategy, research, M&E.
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Usman Sheikh
Co-founder of Jolta Electric, AUJ Technologies and ConsoliAds and an avid Startup investor, teaches how to run multiple startups successfully. Usman Sheikh is a strategist in creating new innovative business models that help in empowering people and have founded and bootstrapped several startups that has now become successful companies.
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Zahid Latif Khan
Mr. Zahid Latif Khan is the chairman of ISE Tower REIT Management Company Limited formerly known as Islamabad Stock Exchange Limited since January 2016. He is the CEO of Zahid Latif Khan Securities (Pvt.) Ltd-one of the premier and leading brokerage houses of Pakistan-for the past 23 years. The firm is known and reputed highly amongst the investors and regulatory investors. Mr. Zahid Latif Khan teaches how to use investing to maximize wealth creation.
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Rehan Allahwalla
Rehan Allahwala, an entrepreneur, the founder of Super Technologies Inc., a US company, providing solutions for telecom industry. At the age of thirteen, he founded his first company “Pakistan Computers”, while on high school, he created commodore computer accessories including Voice Digitizers, modems and Speed Increasers. He is founder of Rehan School and Institute of Peace.
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Kamran Rizvi

Kamran founded KZR Associates (www.kzr.co) in 1991 and pioneered the self-improvement and organization development (OD) movement in Pakistan. From 2002 onwards, KZR has initiated several organizations in its place that are actively serving the corporate, non-profit and youth sectors of Pakistan

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Qaiser Abbas​
Qaiser is helping world’s top multinational companies, governments, educational institutes, and non-profit organizations through his cutting-edge leadership teambuilding and coaching tools. Qaiser has coached superstars of sports, movies, media, science and business. His over 200 clients include fortune 500 companies like Unilever, Philip Morris, World Bank, WHO, Nestle, Total, P&G, Coca Cola, and many more.
Female Trainer Giving a Presentation
Samar Hasan

Driven to create a positive impact, Samar has been working in the fields of entrepreneurship, higher education, financial inclusion, democracy, governance & international relations since 2003.

Co-founded Epiphany as a catalyst for promoting impact/social/women entrepreneurship in Pakistan. in 2016. The firm is focused on enterprise & human development; diversity, inclusion & sustainability, impact consulting in the areas of strategic communications, strategy, research, M&E.

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Waqar Chattha
Waqar Chattha is the Founder of Chatthas Food chain in Islamabad. He is a detail-oriented Management and International Finance graduate. He has exceptionally grown his business in the Desi Food chain space in the past 4 years. He is now expanding his Branches within the Twin cities. He is a one-man army who not just creates amazing recipes but also manages his food outlets. He will share with us his wisdom and learning on how to set up a restaurant business in Pakistan and what were his major takeaways during his rigorous journey of growth.
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Umair Jaliawala

Umair Jaliawala is a soft skill trainer, Key note speaker and a learning facilitator. He is the CEO of Torque Corporation. Torque Corp design & deliver innovative and high-impact organisational development, communication, engagement and learning solutions. Umair Will share with us the process of setting up a training corporation and how one can become a soft skill trainer.

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Affan Haider

Affan Haider is the Founder of Dairy Project. Affan Haider will share with us the unique proposition on how to set up a dairy farming business. The course will specify the tips and tricks to dairy farming and the management basics of farming entrepreneurship.

 
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Saad Afridi
Saad Afridi is the founder of Scents’n stories since 2016. It is Pakistan’s first fragrance e-store. Saad Afridi has exceptionally grown his business and has ample experience in the field of e-commerce selling. He has built expertise in all areas of Private Label e-commerce. Currently, he is heading a team of 50+ employees handling two major brands scentsnstories.pk and aromafarmacy.pk. Saad Afridi will share with us how to set up a thriving e-commerce business in Pakistan.
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Zahid Latif Khan

Mr. Zahid Latif Khan is the chairman of ISE Tower REIT Management Company Limited formerly known as Islamabad Stock Exchange Limited since January 2016. He is the CEO of Zahid Latif Khan Securities (Pvt.) Ltd-one of the premier and leading brokerage houses of Pakistan-for the past 23 years. The firm is known and reputed highly amongst the investors and regulatory investors.

Mr. Zahid Latif Khan teaches how to use investing to maximize wealth creation.