Glenn Hubbard, Reboot and me
I was a brash and ambitious desi with a business plan at Columbia. Glenn was part of the entrepreneurial faculty at the school. We met and exchanged notes on the sidelines of Amar Bhide’s chat about his upcoming book, “The origin and evolution of new businesses”. A few months later when I lost [...]
October 27, 2009
Tags: BSOD, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, entrepreneurship, Glenn Hubbard, Pakistan, Reboot Posted in: Alchemy stuff 
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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: Columbia University, Reboot, Reviews, Startup 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: Columbia University, Reboot, Reviews, Startup Posted in: Blue Screen, Columbia Business School, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Writing, entrepreneurs No Comments
The original Blue Screen of Death Launch post
A walk down memory lane, old backup drives and fossilized emails produced this mail shot from early 2006. How’s that for perspective?
At the business school orientation for new arrivals, a fellow student asked me why I was at Columbia. My response drew a look of confusion – “I always wanted to write a [...]
September 19, 2009
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Reboot on ITLOW and CIO WebStudio
Jehan does a very flattering post (all of it is true) and a great interview on the CIO webstudio covering the book. More pictures of the book (for you Mohtashim) and moa.
September 7, 2009
Tags: CIO, CIO Pakistan, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Failure, Jehan, Reboot, small business, Startup Posted in: Alchemy stuff No Comments
