Author: Jawwad

Winning is a funny thing. Sometimes you have to lose to really appreciate what you have. This of course comes from a guy who wrote the book on failure that failed to become a success. Just like Akamai we picked up the runners up prize at the MIT BAP award. The winners were an algorithmic…

We lost. But we came in as the runners up team behind two obscenely bright guys from Caltech with a business model that basically prints money. We didn’t mind losing at all, because there is honor in losing out to Caltech. And how can you possibly beat a printing press for cash. Here is the final ranking…

Guys, listen. Yes it is a big deal. Yes it means an enormous amount to go through what we are going through. No, this does not mean that life in Pakistan will come to a standstill, that your interests will be hijacked or held hostage or that we will not deliver on our contracts or…

Dear Osama Living in this country require that we take what destiny, fate and our combined stupidity and greed throw our way, in our stride and move on. I have now been a thinking state resident of Pakistan for about 20 years. My earliest recoverable memories are from school days; getting on G-3 at Regal…

City is calm and peaceful. I drove between 20:00 hours and 23:00 hours from Hassan Square, Sea View and back via Karsaz and Shahrae-Faisal. The traffic is normal, no major deployment of police, army or rangers and it feels like just any other busy night. We had a pre planned class dinner with an old…

Oh sorry, my mistake, I don’t have one anymore… One step forward, ten years backwards and the sorriest speech I have never heard… In essence, here is the deal and the rationale. Since the Judiciary went Rambo, and the media got out of hand and the investors were leaving in droves, it was thought prudent…

PASHA ICT Awards 2007 Winners. Best Brand, Best Growth and Best Employer will be announced on Awards night in December. Financial Applications: Winner: Kolachi Advanced Technologies – Product: XTreme Merit: Netsol Technologies – Product: LeaseSoft Communication Applications: Winner: PixSense – Product: Pixsense PSP General Applications: Winner: Core Digital Frameworks Pvt Ltd – Product: CDF Snip…

MIT Enterprise Forum’s Business Acceleration Plan (BAP for short) has been doing the rounds since late July this year. From 25 companies we came down to 17, from 17 to 11, from 11 to 5 over three rounds. Yesterday the MIT Enterprise Forum Pakistan announced the eagerly awaited list of final five. We made it….

Now teaching live in Singapore at the SP Jain Campus. And yes I have finally switched to Blog Jet.

Since the initial post went out, we have now raised Rupees 2.45 million in ten days. The computer lab is now taken care of courtesy of a benefactor from Canada. Another 9.55 million to go. Keep them coming.