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Reboot goes on sale online, gets featured at CIO, the Standard, Network World or the Ides of March

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Jawwad

What a week it has been. Last night was the first night in 7 days that I slept for 7 hours. My average naptime for the week was an astonishing 4 hours, excluding the time I spent power napping waiting for the red traffic light to change to green, on hold waiting for customers to…

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From Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to Reboot – revisited

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Jawwad

The original BSOD manuscript took a page out of the Memento playbook. Rather than starting off at the beginning like normal authors do, the book started at the end. Memento style. Kris, our editor, convinced me to switch to the normal world. Her other big suggestion was to bring Alchemy into the story. Failure is…

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The Reboot presentation at TIECON, Karachi – Revisited

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Jawwad

The TIECON 2009, Karachi, 4th November 2009, Reboot presentation was the first time I was able to shrink the story in under 20 minutes. Spent three days putting the presentation together but it will be a while before I am able to get to an editor that will run the presentation and the video coverage…

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From Blue Screen of Death to Reboot; evolution of a presentation

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Jawwad

Ashburn Farms is a quite planned neighborhood. The type of town you are likely to hide in after a heartbreak or earth shattering failure or both. Small, private and not at all commercial; hospitable but not invasive; alive in a suburban sense, but not quite there if you are looking to feed off the high…

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Telecompk on Reboot

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Jawwad

Babar Bhatti covers Reboot on the Telecompk blog.

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Reboot presentation @ TIECON

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Jawwad

Here is the slide share version of the Reboot presentation I made yesterday at the TIECON 2009 event in Karachi. Had a lot of fun putting this together. Alchemy Reboot @ TIE CON Karachi View more presentations from jafcbs.

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Robert Ferrigno, Reboot and me…

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Jawwad

My favorite hangout is a large format bookstore. Think anywhere in the world, think library stacks, think of Borders, think of me. Three years ago on a business trip to Malaysia, a new fiction release caught my eye. It had an interesting cover, sort of a patchwork of the US flag and the Islamic Crescent…

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Glenn Hubbard, Reboot and me

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Jawwad

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 out during…

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Reboot now available on Readers Club, Karachi

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Jawwad

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.

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Reboot now available on Amazon, soon to be released in India.

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Jawwad

Apparently, you can’t do things in one’s or two’s in the publishing Industry. Not when you have as powerful an agent as I do. And then there is brother Vickram who single handedly closed the largest distribution deal in India for Reboot. The book by the way is now also available on Amazon. Quick update:…

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