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Category: PASHA ICT Awards

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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And the winner is

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Jawwad

MindStorm Studios and Cricket Revolution did a clean sweep today at the PASHA ICT Awards. In addition to picking up the winner slot for the digital media category they also sweeped the PASHA Tech Crunch Gong Award for a 1,000 US$. Mindstorm/Babar combo was deadly enough for Chairman PASHA to give up his welcome address…

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Steve Jobs in Karachi or why I feel old or welcome to the future

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Jawwad

Yesterday for the first time in many years I actually felt old and irrelevant. As part of the pre-PASHA Award event we took a sneak peak at the 10 odd companies that were competing at the PASHA TECH CRUNCH GONG show on 14th October. Two of participants were very good. The first pitched their idea…

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Springfield/Vimble/Umair Khan Jadoon

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Jawwad

How to break into social media when you are underpaid, under appreciated over worked blogger. The return of Lassi as a key presentation theme

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Product placements

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Jawwad

Imran Zia does a totally ingenious product placement for both Reboot and Tell My Story on the TMS Blog. Take the red pill and then press the red button to see the slideshow. The book has started popping up in all sort of interesting locations.

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The PASHA ICT Awards are here…

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Jawwad

2005 – We are nominated for the financial application category and to our surprise pick up the first prize. 2006 – Seven of us land in Thailand on two separate flights after a wild night of crises set at the airports in Bahrain, Karachi, Bangkok and Chiang Mai. We represent PASHA and Pakistan on day…

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