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…
Tag: Reboot
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…
She beat me to it…
There is nothing to make your day like a taste of good old fashioned mutual admiration society (MAS). And when it comes to blogging to send a little bit of MAS your way, no one does it better than my friend Jehan. Now if only some of my other missing in action friends (yes, this…
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 closed itself…
Foreword to the second edition
What a difference three years and an economic cycle make! When the Blue Screen first came out in March 2006, we certainly didn’t expect the reactions or the reviews. Three years later it is being used as a text book as well as background material for case studies at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS),…