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Finance Training Course case study – Daily SEO Task list and Content Focus

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Jawwad

This is the second post in building an online content based business series. For the first post, please see building an online content business While Finance Training Courses started attracting traffic from day one (23rd February 2010), it only started generating revenues when we had a psuedo business model of sorts. Once we figured who…

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Building an online content business – Case Study – Finance Training Course

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Jawwad

I had always wondered about these instant blogging millionaire case studies. Guy meets blog, blog meets Google Adsense, bank account meets dollars and every one lives happily ever after. These happy stories with all the twists and turns of a good mission impossible episode were only supplemented and surpassed by publishing and bestselling author case…

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Business Plan Cheat Sheet – Two business plans up for a half baked sale

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Jawwad

We learn by doing, seeing and at time imitating. For that is what it took for me to write my first business plan. The course that made it happen was Glen Hubbard’s Entrepreneurial Finance at Columbia Business School. For the past three terms I had been working on the outline of an idea and using…

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Startup Guide: The Darden Reboot Chat – Videos are here

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Jawwad

And they are here. Seven episodes due to the youtube 10 minute rule. Many thanks to Uzma for burning the midnight oil, encoding the video and solving the volume problem once and for all. Thank you Adnan for ensuring that the session gets recorded for the family (as well as agents and friends) and shipping…

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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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Reboot goes on sale online, gets featured at CIO, the Standard, Network World or the Ides of March

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Jawwad

What a week it has been. Last night was the first night in 7 days that I slept for 7 hours. My average naptime for the week was an astonishing 4 hours, excluding the time I spent power napping waiting for the red traffic light to change to green, on hold waiting for customers to…

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I feel like a rock star – part ii

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Jawwad

I don’t like narcissist posts on principal. After all what is the use of having a fan club/site/page if you have to blow your own horn all the time. But this morning when the SP Jain student feedback quietly sneaked into my mailbox and I saw the most generous comments I have ever received as…

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Dubai Tech Nights – 9th February 2010

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Jawwad

It ended up being an evening full of surprises. When Adnan first checked with me about my availability on the 9th for Dubai Tech Nights I thought we were talking about a small gathering. So when I walked in at 5:45pm after following some really colorful directions to Room 212 at the RIT campus at…

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Memories, Cookaracha Guides or Venture number two…

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Jawwad

Much before Reboot and the Blue Screen of Death, before the Alchemy discussion on our family dinner table and the wild dreamy bet that turned out to be Avicena, before blogging and before DesiBackToDesh, in a land far far away (then marked as Geocities in Jedi lore) there was once a venture named Cookaracha Guides….

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Talent ,Technology, Management

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Jawwad

Ages ago for an upcoming PASHA career expo I did a piece on hiring. A few months earlier I had done a presentation on knowledge workers at Zayed University Campus in Abu Dhabi. Today at the Nutshell forum I used ideas from both pieces to do a different take on talent management within the technology…

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