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: Actuary, Columbia Business School, Cookaracha Guides, FAST ICS, MBA, Memories, New York, small business, Startup Posted in: Blue Screen, Columbia Business School, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Failure, Personal shit, Writing, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business 
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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
Tags: Columbia Business School, Columbia University, entrepreneurs, Failure, New York, Reboot, Southern California, Startup, Technology Business Posted in: Alchemy stuff No Comments
The road not taken
Beware of the Ides of December.
10 years ago, this month, packed up and got ready to move to New York.
9 years ago, the same month, received my first six figure offer and said no.
The next time the month came along, I found myself in Tokyo, pitching to the third largest bank on the planet, [...]
December 13, 2008
Tags: Dubai, entrepreneurship, new ventures, New York, small business, startups Posted in: Alchemy stuff 4 Comments
