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Ken Morse is in town

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Jawwad

Ken Morse was in town the last two nights on his signature whirlwind trip to Karachi. Luckily enough we were able to catch up with him at the Pre-BAP dinner at Farrokh Captain’s home and then again yesterday at the MIT CEF Innovation Confernece. During his Keynote at the conference Ken reinforced the points he…

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MIT BAP, Ken Morse, TAN and Pakistan

Posted on February 29, 2008August 26, 2014 by Jawwad

The setting was a small conference room at the Marriot in the year that was 2006. We had heard Ken Morse was making a brief stopover in town on his way to Isloo and Nida my MIT sister had managed to pick up four invitations from the MIT Club in Karachi. We were a very…

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Ken Morse and MIT on selling in Karachi

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Jawwad

Ken Morse, Bill Aulet and David Spector, from MIT E-labs conducted a two day crash course on selling for new ventures in Karachi. The two day workshop had 80 odd registered participants, all of them pre-qualified by the organizers. It was well worth it. Ken and Bill will be back in June to do a…

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Pitching for startup – Making winning business plan presentations

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Jawwad

  I finally went ahead and did it. The Pitching for startups: Making winning business plan pitches is now live. I actually went step ahead and even did a Business Plan Pitching Case Studies supplementary course where we put everything we covered in the first course on 4 of my favorite pitches over the years….

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Finding the voice of the customer

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Jawwad

Startup Insights – Finding the voice of the customer I have been teaching entrepreneurship as a practitioner for 8 years and the format that I follow is very simple. Start with a group of students willing to express their ideas in less than one hundred words. Mix in between 18 to 36 hours of instruction….

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Learning Corporate Finance or memory lane meets online education meets content…

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Jawwad

It was instruction at a level that I had never been exposed to. I had come across some truly great teachers in my prior life but this whole relationship driven, hands on learning approach was the new new thing. The professor was not a professor, the course was not a course. It felt like being…

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From Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to Reboot – revisited

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Jawwad

The original BSOD manuscript took a page out of the Memento playbook. Rather than starting off at the beginning like normal authors do, the book started at the end. Memento style. Kris, our editor, convinced me to switch to the normal world. Her other big suggestion was to bring Alchemy into the story. Failure is…

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MIT CEF BAP 2009 – Finals (unofficial, unsanctioned, undercover coverage)

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Jawwad

I have been spoilt rotten. After blogging about the PASHA SI session as well as the Tech Crunch Awards live, I expect events to be blogged about instantenously. My pictures, my videos, my time. Which is why when I decided to gate crash the MIT CEF BAP party, I brought my own camera. Though by…

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The presentation cheat sheet – Three – The Problem Statement

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Jawwad

The presentation that I am most proud of however is the one that we made together as a team for the first MIT BAP competition in Karachi. The judges panel included Ken Morse, Bill Aulet and Imran Saeed, all three from MIT E-Labs. Despite earlier failed attempts to impress Ken, this time we managed to…

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PASHA CEO Lunch and TPS Tower

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Jawwad

I have always had a soft corner for TPS. I met Sohail, Owais and Shahzad for the first time when they were nominated for the APICTA ICT Awards in Macau. Then we together crashed and burned in front of MIT’s E-Lab’s Ken Morse elevator pitching our products. However Sohail came out as the star of…

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