Archive for the ‘PASHA’ Category

Pakistan Macro Economic Update – January 2010

The figures for July- December 2009 are guardedly encouraging as there are some signs that the economy is on the road to recovery. Trade deficit has narrowed due to a decline in imports (because of reduced oil and commodity prices in this period as well as the slowdown in economic activity) which have outweighed [...]

January 31, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Karachi, Liquidity Risk, PASHA, Pakistan, the economy stupid  No Comments

Talent ,Technology, Management

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 [...]

January 23, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, I can't hack it, Karachi, PASHA, Pakistan, Startup, Startup Insiders, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  2 Comments

Telecompk on Reboot

Babar Bhatti covers Reboot on the Telecompk blog.

November 24, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Columbia Business School, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Failure, PASHA, Pakistan, Startup, Writing, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  No Comments

Heal Thyself or TIECON 2009, Karachi

The best of friends are the conspring kind.

When Sabeen and Jehan conspired together to get me to speak at TIECON 2009 in Karachi, the original plan was to do my presentation, stay for the post presentation Q&A and then head out. I even parked in Sheraton’s outdoor parking to ensure that I wouldn’t [...]

November 5, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Failure, Karachi, PASHA, Pakistan, Startup, TIE, entrepreneurs  7 Comments

And the winner is

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 [...]

October 14, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Desi Startup, PASHA, PASHA ICT Awards, Pakistan, Startup, entrepreneurs, new ventures  One Comment

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

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 [...]

October 14, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Karachi, PASHA, PASHA ICT Awards, Pakistan, Startup Insiders, entrepreneurs, small business  One Comment

Springfield/Vimble/Umair Khan Jadoon

How to break into social media when you are underpaid, under appreciated over worked blogger.

The return of Lassi as a key presentation theme

October 14, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Failure, PASHA, PASHA ICT Awards, Pakistan, entrepreneurs  No Comments

Product placements

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.

September 25, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Desi Startup, PASHA, PASHA ICT Awards, entrepreneurs  No Comments

The PASHA ICT Awards are here…

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 [...]

September 1, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Far East, PASHA, PASHA ICT Awards, Pakistan, Sales guys in suits, Singapore, Thailand  One Comment

Yusuf Jan goes and breaks out a song…

Yusuf Jan took out two weeks out of his busy expat schedule in Karachi to trounce the geeks can’t sing and produce jack myth. His Green and white song is slowly climbing the viewing numbers on Youtube and was played on a number of FM stations today in Karachi. Yusuf is conspiring [...]

August 14, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Karachi, PASHA, Pakistan  One Comment

An abridged history of the technology industry in Pakistan, three

When the time came for us to graduate things had started to get exciting. GUI tools were getting more impressive. Borland was getting the whacking of a life time at the hands of Microsoft in everything other than development environments and was returning the favor in IDE’s (Integrated Development Environments). The era of Word [...]

May 1, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Karachi, PASHA, Pakistan, computer science, entrepreneurs, small business, the economy stupid  2 Comments

An abridged history of technology industry in Pakistan, two

1991 is the year when the world changed for me forever. At the beginning of my fourth term at FAST ICS my father went out and bought me an Intel 286 DTK computer. He borrowed 30,000 rupees from two elders in my extended family. For us as a household, it was an unthinkable amount [...]

April 29, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, PASHA, Pakistan, computer science, the economy stupid  2 Comments

An abridged history of technology industry in Pakistan – one

Every now and then someone comes along and questions how far we have come as an industry or what have we achieved as a group over the last two decades. I have been thinking about doing this post for a while but a recent exchange on CIO Pakistan reinforced the urge. Here [...]

April 29, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Karachi, PASHA, Pakistan, computer science, entrepreneurs  No Comments

You were saying, a rejoinder four…

Look here and here. There is more behind the G-20 and Nato protests than these selective images show case. The violence is hard to ignore but it overshadows the cause, the concept, the organization or the impact.

So if I was the only source of information you had, my commentary the basis of [...]

April 5, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, I can't hack it, Karachi, PASHA, Pakistan, the economy stupid  One Comment

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