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Startup PakistanThe MagazineIssue 01

Pakistan’s most premium feature.

A print magazine for the people who build, fund and run Pakistan’s companies. Printed in limited numbers — which is the polite way of saying not everyone gets in.

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Startup Pakistan Magazine — the cover of its first issue
  • Not a press release with better fonts.
  • Fewer adjectives. More consequences.
  • Written after the launch party. Before the exit.
  • Edited by people who read the footnotes.
  • Ambition, fact-checked.
  • Print, because some things should be hard to delete.

Every boardroom keeps a version of events. We are printing the one that survives the fact-check.

Issue 01 is a record of the people building Pakistan’s companies — the decisions, the detours and the parts that did not make the press release. Slow journalism for a fast economy, on paper heavy enough to mean it.

The covers

Eleven ways to say “coming soon”.

Dummy covers, drawn for the first issue. The people on them are not real. The ones inside will be.

  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — Look funded.
    No. 01
  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — the mark as a window on the city
    No. 02
  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — Signal
    No. 03
  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — Bend the plan
    No. 04
  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — Inside the round
    No. 05
  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — Premium, allegedly
    No. 06
  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — The long game
    No. 07
  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — Built here
    No. 08
  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — In confidence
    No. 09
  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — A seat at the table
    No. 10
  • Startup Pakistan Magazine, dummy cover — Off the record
    No. 11

  • The people

    Founders, chairpersons and the operators who actually run things, in their own words. Interviewed, not interpreted.

  • The paper

    Heavy stock, wide margins, no pop-ups. Some stories deserve to be held, not scrolled past at a red light.

  • The record

    What was promised, what was built and the distance between the two — measured politely, printed permanently.

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Issue 01 is being cast.

Founders, leaders and companies with a story worth printing: a few lines here, and the editors take it from there. We read every note and answer the ones that make us curious — which, to be fair, is most of them.

Interested in

What is sent here stays with the Startup Pakistan team. It is used only to talk about the magazine — never sold, never shared, never added to a newsletter nobody asked for. Ask, and it is deleted.

Startup Pakistan · The Magazine · Issue 01