Just about ready to head out home from work and start packing for the trip. The last two days have been a stretch. Marketing collateral, tickets and power plugs are all in the bag. The Europe Ash affair has really screwed up schedules and the first casualty is the emirates online check in. Here is…
Author: Jawwad
Startup Guide: The startup crash course in 7 posts or less
For the last four weeks I had been thinking about putting together a basic reading guide for mentees that would help them move forward and remove me as a bottleneck. A collection of short to the point posts that introduce them to a basic framework that many of us take for granted and most of…
Jawwad Farid and Reboot: The Columbia Business School session.
It has been a full ten years since I spoke on the CEO platform at Columbia. Thanks to Hasan and Carolyn, I will get to present in Uris again. Really looking forward to it. Breakfast Series: Startup Failure – Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Jawwad Farid’00 See full BIO below Monday, April 19th @ 8:00amUris…
Blogging for startup: Picking up a stats plugin…
Look no further than Statpress. While GA is a mandatory requirement for all self respecting bloggers, Statpress is necessity for all evil minded, nit picking, pseudo psychotic writers (like me) who need to know details about who has been coming and going through their blogs. Real individuals, spiders, crawlers, stalkers and feed readers. If you…
Startup Guide: The Reboot chat at Darden, 22nd April 2010
Many thanks to Adnan and Sana for making this happen. The EVC and South Asian Society at Darden sponsor the Reboot session. Now tentatively scheduled for 1:30 – 2:30 pm on 22nd April 2010 in Room 150. Columbia Business School Monday morning breakfast at 8 am is also on but waiting for final confirmation.
A moment of silence, if you please…
At the stroke of midnight yesterday, Adnan Haider Rizvi, able bodied dreamer, bonded in servitude at IBM, heart breaker of girl friends of East European origins and noted Dubai socialite, pulled the plug on Lootmaar.com. I had been the attending physician, the counsel of record, the peddler on the street, the bearer of signs from…
Mentoring assignment number three: Show up in strength at the startup insider session at T2F
If you are keen on meeting even more kick ass mentors, hear another round of uninspiring drivel from Jawwad Farid and Nauman Sheikh and corrupt even more young minds, bring at-least three friends to the SI session at T2F. Bonus points if all six of you manage to show up with 3 sidekicks each on…
Startup Insiders: Back in Karachi: Business models that don’t work
Jehan is up-to no good again. As part of her desire to increase the number of non-conformist, flower bearing, independent, ultra cool apple product users, she wants as many young ones to work for themselves as possible (assuming that there is a connection, she thinks so). But rather than putting up unassailable success stories, this…
Where have I been: Putting together a pitch document
Putting together a pitch document is a member of the canine species. I had to go back to the four hour plan again. More details later this week when I stop to catch my breath.
Mentoring fellow dreamers – a start up game plan for final year students
It is always flattering when people come to you for mentoring advice knowing that you are a total and complete failure. CIO Pakistan did that this Saturday afternoon when they brought 7 impressionable young men with them. Just to make it interesting and worthwhile I had Nauman Shaikh from Credit Chex also over for a…