Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category

Memories, Cookaracha Guides or Venture number two…

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 [...]

February 5, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Columbia Business School, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Failure, Personal shit, Writing, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  One Comment

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

A review, a review, my kingdom for a review

Finally, courtesy of Salman Latif at the Book Review blog, a review of Reboot, Second edition.

‘Reboot – in search for the land of opportunity’ is not the sort of book you usually find on stores. Take a quick walk down the shelve-lanes of bookstores and you’d find hundreds of self-help books with success stories [...]

September 27, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Columbia Business School, Failure, Writing, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  One Comment

Reboot now available on Readers Club, Karachi

For those of you who were waiting to get a copy from your local friendly library, here is the link to the book on the Readers Club site in Karachi. The book is in stock now.

September 25, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Columbia Business School, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Writing, entrepreneurs  No Comments

Here you go Mohtashim

Here is my well thumbed copy of Reboot (the book) on my startup bookshelf along with other well thumbed titles.

And for those of my friends who have difficulty reading anything other than IBM manuals on Strategy in Bulgaria and Dubai (yes that means you Adnan), this edition also has lots of pretty pictures, at [...]

August 30, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Blue Screen, Pressing words, Startup, Writing, new ventures, small business  No Comments

Omen II?

289 Posts, 666 comments, 300,000 page hits, 3 years after I discover blogging as an outlet for my rants…

And my top twenty referrals are from the evil search engine from the evil empire in Redmond, named after my favorite features editor from Fortune.

August 25, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Pressing words, Writing  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

Building your brand, Engro Foods and Omore…

Donald Sexton’s International Marketing class was scheduled for Thursday evening, an hour before happy hour at Columbia. In 12 sessions spread over twelve weeks Don planned on teaching us everything we ever needed to know about building global brands. Each class would start and end with Don’s personal collection of the best [...]

April 19, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Food, Pakistan, Sales guys, Sales guys in suits, Writing  2 Comments

Outliers…

Malcolm Gladwell is better known as the author of Tipping point. Outliers promises to be the book that would out shadow the success of his first best seller. Here is a quote from the last page

“It is impossible… for any other outlier for that matter, to look down from their lofty perch [...]

December 20, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Personal shit, Pressing words, Writing  No Comments

My dream vacation

Unlimited supply of fresh coconuts, white sandy beaches, 10 dollar rooms, no pressure, 25 degree weather and a new book to write…

March 12, 2007   Posted in: Writing  One Comment