Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

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

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 [...]

March 13, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Columbia Business School, Desi Startup, Education, Failure, Pressing words, Startup, Startup Insiders, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  No Comments

The second best job in the world, part two…

To the three batches (Division A, Division B, and EMBA Batch 13), who made me feel like a rock star two Thursdays in a row. Thank you. Keep them pictures coming J

December 20, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Columbia Business School, Education, Failure, Startup, Startup Insiders, Training, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  No Comments

Dreamers in Dubai

Kumar, the soft spoken driver from Kerala, has been picking me up from home and dropping me back for the last seven days. On Wednesday night he finally asked if I was working the hours I was working by choice. Starting the day at 8 am and landing on Villa 16, Cluster 35 [...]

December 12, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Education, Failure, Startup, entrepreneurs, small business  No Comments

The Reboot presentation at TIECON, Karachi – Revisited

The TIECON 2009, Karachi, 4th November 2009, Reboot presentation was the first time I was able to shrink the story in under 20 minutes. Spent three days putting the presentation together but it will be a while before I am able to get to an editor that will run the presentation and the video [...]

November 27, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Columbia Business School, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Education, Failure, Pakistan, Startup, TIE, computer science, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  No Comments

Hans Rosling, Gapminder & Google.

Two days ago I received a cryptic email from a prospective client. It had a link and a simple “Take a look at this please.”

I did.

I recommend that you do the same.

Hans Rosling and Google together have done more for statistics with their tool, their presentation and their data aggregation than all of the [...]

September 25, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Education, Risk, Risk Training, Training, the economy stupid  No Comments

The Society of Actuaries interview

Sam Philips interview for the Actuary was the first published review received by BSOD/Reboot. Though a little dated, it is still relevant. Sam also talks about the book in a sidebar

September 19, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Education, Failure, entrepreneurs  No Comments

My crazy ride to see my word in print

For more than a decade of my life I was a professional student (which means that I worked, took exams on the side for a professional designation and waited for a very long time to add three letters against my name). A chapter that started in the monsoons of ‘89 in Bombay finally [...]

August 25, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Education, Failure, Personal shit, Pressing words, Startup, Startup Insiders, Writing, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  8 Comments

Myths about Pakistan or an infrastructure rejoinder, three

Jehan did a post on This too is Pakistan, in October 2008. At the peak of distrust, despair and negativity coming out by the buckets in that month, she went out to highlight some of the many things that are right with this country. I didn’t get round to doing a follow up [...]

April 5, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Education, Karachi, PASHA, Pakistan, life style, the economy stupid  3 Comments

The essence of a business plan competition

Professor Grandhi at SP Jain is a new friend who had been after me to share my thoughts about what business plan competition at a business school should look like. The post goes out to him and all other promoters of entrepreneurship who believe that we should catch this generation young. Preferably [...]

March 10, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Education, Failure, entrepreneurs  One Comment

Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment workshop on the 14th of March

Sad, that the only post that I have been able to take out time for in the last two months is a marketing plug for the Alchemy ICAAP workshop.

More, non-plug materials to follow, post the workshop. Hang in there….

March 10, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Basel II, Education, Liquidity Risk, Pillar II  No Comments

Teaching the dreamer course again

In Dubai, teaching the entrepreneurship course from today till the end of the month. More later

January 24, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Education, Failure, entrepreneurs  No Comments

Funding for dummies…three

We met Wilson Tan on a trade trip across China. In just over a week, thirty technology companies from the Asia Pacific region covered 3 cities and one hundred Chinese partners, trying to understand the opportunity that was China. Wilson was the President of the organizing body, (the outgoing President of Mercury [...]

January 18, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Education, Startup, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  No Comments

Funding for dummies…one

You dream, you write, you pitch.

If you put your heart in it and have an idea with merit you collect, build, sell, retire and live happily ever after. You never have to ask, borrow or steal another dime since the millions of dollars you have put aside as a result of your efforts [...]

January 16, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Blue Screen, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Education, Failure, PASHA, Startup, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  One Comment

Dreams…

“Let’s just say I dare to dream bigger dreams”, said a spunky student when the rest of the class was done with introducing themselves.

Quite a few sunsets and students later, the dreamer called again.

This time he wanted to be a sponge and observe in first person the special sauce that made a technology company, [...]

December 20, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Desi Startup, Education, Startup, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  One Comment

Scenes of mayhem…

I get to teach another course at S P Jain in Dubai and end up with a group open book, open laptop, open network final on a fine Friday morning after teaching till mid night the night before.
Here are some scenes of anguish, pain, denial, rage and suffering from my lovely students.

Nilesh (below) was [...]

June 3, 2008   Posted in: Education, Training  2 Comments