SUCCESS STORIES OF FIVE

ENTERPRENEURS IN PAKISTAN
 Entrepreneurship In Pakistan
► Corruption cautions the
investors

► Usually they dream of

becoming rich quickly

► Women are looked as the

“food-makers” rather
than the “food-earners.”
ATIQA ODHO
MESSAGE: The market is still abundant in opportunities for new
entrants and that she likes healthy competition
 Product line
► 35 Lipstick colors
► 20 Loose Eye-shadow
colors
► 25 Pressed Eye-
shadow colors
► 10 Blush-on colors 8
Cake Face Powders
colors
► 8 Eyeliner colors,
and Mascara.
 SUCCESS STORY
► Stepped into her
working life as a make-
up artist
► Training in England.
► Beauty parlor and
appropriately named it
“Cuts and cappuccino”
► Launched own
cosmetics line.
 REASON FOR BECOMING
ENTERPRENEUR

► Beliefthat a woman
understands another
woman’s needs

► Tiredof what was

available in the
marketplace. 
Monis Rahman (chairperson of naseeb
networks and founder of rozee.com)
 HIS VISION
► “Pakistan has a huge
perception challenge
► Individual ability to
raise capital
► “It was my life
obsession and dream
to work at Intel,” 
► Started thinking about
a life beyond Intel
 SUCCESS STORY
► In2005, he launched
Web platform, this
time through his own
funding, a job-search
site, Rozee.pk

► Over30,000
employers, including
U.S.-based firms such
as McDonald’s and Coc
a-Cola, advertise on
Rozee.pk.
 CHALLENGES AND EFFORTS
► Needed more capital
► In 2007,Pakistan’s situation was very
uncertain on all grounds
► Two firms in California's Bay Area, Draper
Fisher Jurvetson and EPlanet
Ventures, backed not so much Rozee.pk, but
Monis Rahman.
► Organized TiECon 2010 Pakistan 
 IFFAT RAZA
► Company profile:Ideal Star
► Business type:Plastic recycling
MESSAGE
“Never say sky is the limit,the moon has foot
prints “
 SUCCESS STORY
► Driven by courageous patience
► At 45, single parent of four children
► She had to chose her own destiny
► 2005, pet bottles crushing unit has her own
enterprise in district Lahore
► One of the few women in this business type
 CHALLENGES AND EFFORTS
► Manufacturing of decorative plastic material
out of plastic waste.
► Manages income out of this being
economical and frugal
► Funding was a problem
► Now successfully running her own
enterprise
► Almost 15 employees for picking, crushing,
drawing and packing processes.
 Problems she faced
► Marketing challenge
► Removal of middle man
► No idea of documentation
► Attendeda lot of
seminars on women
business
development centre

► Training
in business
development

► Company linkage
with trade
development
authority of
Pakistan
Rehan Ahmed Allahwalla 
 SUCCESS STORY
► Started a firm call Pakistan
computers
► First ever off-line email service to the
people of Karachi by the name of
Brain Net.
► Pakistan Computers started
countless number of new services
including email to fax Internet
Phones
► Today ,a Successful Business Man
and own over 200 companies in
different parts of the world.
► Major stake is in the Super
Technologies Inc. Pensacola USA
and DIDx.org.
 SUCCESS STORY
► Nominated by over 3000
for winning the 2010
Mashable Entrepreneur
Award.
► An entrepreneur from Kara
chi and runs & own Super
Technologies Inc and
many other companies.
► Involved in small science
projects
► Innovative ideas
Qurat -ul -Ain
► Company profile:
institute of hotel and
tourism management
(IHTM)
► Business type:
Professional education
MESSAGE
“Whenever you see a
successful entrepreneur,
one once made a
courageous decision”
 SUCCESS STORY
► Inspired from the
growing hospitality
industry
► Established a
professional education
institute in 2005 which
running very
successfully
► Confidence boosted
when her institute got
affiliated with TDCP
(Tourism corporation
development of
Pakistan)

► This institute was even

acknowledged
internationally ICHRIE
 Challenges and efforts
► Financial support

► Issue of recognition of institute

► She had a lot of trainings like from EDEW

► For
running enterprise you are the boss
yourself