Archive for the ‘MIT BAP’ Category

Finding the voice of the customer

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. [...]

March 28, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Desi Startup, MIT BAP, PASHA ICT Awards, Sales guys, Startup, Startup Insiders, TIE, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  7 Comments

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

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 [...]

November 14, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Karachi, Ken Morse, MIT BAP, entrepreneurs  3 Comments

The Presentation cheat sheet – one

Pitching Perfect

November 9, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Desi Startup, Ken Morse, MIT BAP, entrepreneurs  No Comments

MIT BAP, Ken Morse, TAN and Pakistan

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 [...]

February 29, 2008   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Education, Ken Morse, MIT BAP, PASHA, Pakistan, Sales guys in suits, Startup, Training, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  5 Comments

Zafar Khan

You heard it here first. There will come a day in all of your lives when you will say, I know Zafar Khan, I shook his hand and I wear his T-Shirts. A lucky few will say, I heard him speak at LUMS. Fewer still will declare, I lost to Zafar, one fine day in [...]

February 26, 2008   Posted in: Desi Startup, MIT BAP, Pakistan, Startup, Uncategorized  6 Comments