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Reboot first shipment sold out

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Jawwad

Thanks to friends, the most powerful and convincing agent in Pakistan and our distributor in Lahore, the first shipment of Reboot to Pakistan has now been sold out. The next shipment will arrive from Singapore, immediately after Eid.

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Reboot on ITLOW and CIO WebStudio

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Jawwad

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.

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Reboot. Advice from a failure

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Jawwad

Hunting the great white shark deep in the barrier reef, bare handed, is not a common hobby. It is just as common as starting up organically, bootstrapping, working for yourself, and taking crazy risks not just with your life but with your entire family’s future. Yet we all dream of it when fate brings us…

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Reboot – first set of copies are here

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Jawwad

First print run is here in Karachi, landed this afternoon. Copies available Monday at the PASHA secretariat, CIO and Alchemy offices in Karachi. Copies available at Vahzay’s offices in Lahore on Tuesday afternoon. Now taking advance orders for the next run in Singapore.

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Reboot – Order forms

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Jawwad

You can now fax or email us your purchase order forms for Reboot – In search for the land of opportunity. The book has been priced at Rupees 990 per copy or 13 US$ plus shipping. Finally we get to see the print edition. All thanks to Abdul Malick, an SP Jain student who fortunately…

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Building an online content business – Case Study – Finance Training Course

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Jawwad

I had always wondered about these instant blogging millionaire case studies. Guy meets blog, blog meets Google Adsense, bank account meets dollars and every one lives happily ever after. These happy stories with all the twists and turns of a good mission impossible episode were only supplemented and surpassed by publishing and bestselling author case…

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Career Advice and Guidance

Posted on January 14, 2011December 17, 2014 by Jawwad

Career advice Sitting down this afternoon with a widely traveled friend I realized that there is a lot that we now know and take for granted that we didn’t know as fresh graduates. Simple things like the specialized courses we should take, the career focus we should build and the jobs that we should turn…

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Career choices: From banking and consulting to Startup land in southern California

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Jawwad

New York 1999. I am a business school student with a combination of dangerous ideas, irrelevant experiences, incomplete education and out of control ambitions. In any other country I would be institutionalized. In New York City, I am the startup guy, the dude with the business plan. While a few leads from Goldman and an…

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Career choices that I made – early professional consulting career – lessons learnt

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Jawwad

Career Lesson One – Opt for computer science The reason why I have such a soft corner for computer science is that I don’t think it is an optional undergraduate degree. I think it is a mandatory skill set that teaches us how to think and approach problems and then gives us an opportunity to…

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Business Plan Cheat Sheet – Two business plans up for a half baked sale

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Jawwad

We learn by doing, seeing and at time imitating. For that is what it took for me to write my first business plan. The course that made it happen was Glen Hubbard’s Entrepreneurial Finance at Columbia Business School. For the past three terms I had been working on the outline of an idea and using…

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