Karachi United Football Club – Or why I work for myself After four and a half long years of 18 hour days, 7 day weeks, I decided to take a break. The last 12 months have been especially rough. We went through two due diligence trips; the toughest close I have ever had to make…
Author: Jawwad
Cross Border Mutual admiration society
Balaji and I met God knows how a year ago some where on the corners of the blogging world. We met again last week he did post on learning from failure that caught my eye (when my log analyzer hailed the balaji blog and his post as the top referrer to the alchemy domain). Us failures needs to…
PASHA Career Expo – Karachi, 16th June 2007
Three words. Don’t miss it I think it is the only industry event of its kind that not just brings geeks and their potential bosses together but: a) As an employer gives you the mileage and profile you deserve. Last year in Karachi, it was used as a benchmark to guage how well you were doing…
The second floor and Tee-M or Suji ka Halwa
The second floor is Sabeen and ZAK’s latest creation. Off Ittehad (after Axact but before KFC, going towards Korangi road) it is the hideout of the jazziest and coolest of all rebels. With a hunter beef sandwich and a green apple chiller to kill for, the ambiance is that of a stylish, mid market studio with a…
The hiring scene in Karachi
The rumour mill has it: Etilize: 50 plus TPS: 55 plus MIXIT: 15 plus Avanza: 30 plus Prosys: 25 plus Graduating FAST batch: 60 student
Mid life crisis redux
15 years ago when a young woman looked at me, I actually thought that I must be cool. Today when three young (relatively speaking) girls turned around and looked at me, I could read their minds – look at that fat, bald guy dipping his bread in his Wild Mushroom soup and his two cold…
The Blue screen query letter
Project Concept – The Blue Screen of Death For most small business founders, failure represents the stuff of nightmares. What will happen when there is no money in the bank account? Who will cover the bills? School fees and day care, insurance premiums, milk? When will they cutoff electricity, phone, natural gas and water? How…
I am baaaaaaaaack
Amman, Jordan was an interesting experience. So was the new all dug up Dubai… And the teaching gig at SP Jain in Academic City and the two kilometers I had to walk to Karachi airport with 35 Kgs of luggage to catch the 12:15 emirates connection to Dubai to make it on May 12th. I…
TiE comes to Karachi with Light the fire
TiE comes to Karachi with among other things, a business plan show down between LUMS Lahore and IBA Karachi. My money is riding on LUMS Lahore. Long story, short, I have seen more startups come out of LUMS Lahore, than IBA Karachi. If you are in town, make it a point to attend the show….
Alchemy’s first workshop in BKK
Ran a day long workshop on Basel II – Risk Models in Bangkok. Couldn’t be possible without the support and effort of our local partners in Thailand, Wealth Management. We had around 60 participants from the Thai SEC, the Ministry of Finance, the local mutual funds, local banks, and related financial institutions. I am still…