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FinanceTrainingCourse.com is now live

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Jawwad

Eight months ago I asked myself a simple question. Is it possible to make money online selling content and advertising to people I haven’t met with only Google as a facilitator. The general answer I had received over the past few years was yes but the details about “how” were missing. Three friends held out…

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Quick question: How much should one pay for a peek at a real business plan

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jawwad

Just tweaking an idea that has been bothering me for the last few days? How much would you pay for a peek at a real business plan that picked up funding, investors and partners? 10 dollars, 30 dollars, 50 dollars or more. How much more? The plan focuses on a technology and product business (so…

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APICTA ICT Awards, Kula Lumpur Malaysia – Pictures and Snapshots

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Jawwad

Great snaps taken by the team at myoffstreet.com and Jehan. With the Pakistan delegation, or what was left of it after the awards. Junaid, Maliha, Naureen and the Care team are missing. With Jehan, Yousuf and Badar Khushnood from Google at the night of the awards. With Zafar of Sofizar at the Judges briefing on…

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Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2010 – After thoughts at 10,000 meters in the air…

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Jawwad

At the CIP Lounge on Sunday night, just before boarding my Emirates flight to Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, I had a single thought in my mind. It would be nice to get some sleep for a change. The week leading up to the departure of our delegation to the APICTA 2010 awards scheduled at KLCC had…

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PASHA ICT Awards 2010 – List of winners and runners up.

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Jawwad

Interesting to note the clean sweep by CARE and CASE together at the ICT Awards and the win by Ali Abbas Sikandar, the Tameer Bank CIO for the PASHA ICT Awards CIO of the year award. While Islamabad companies have always done well at the award, this is the first time that one entity picked…

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PASHA ICT Awards 2010 – List of winners and runners up.

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Jawwad

  The complete list of winners and runners up.   Research & DevelopmentProduct: Massively Parallel Fingerprint Matching SystemCARE (Center for Advanced Research in Engineering)www.carepvtltd.comWinner Research & DevelopmentProduct: HozaaTEchArete(Pvt) Ltdwww.techArete.comRunner-up Research & DevelopmentProduct: BlastSimHikmah Techwww.HikmahTech.comRunner-up Tools and Infrastructure ApplicationsProduct: TangoElixir Technologies Pakistanwww.elixir.com www.tango.elixir.com Winner Tools and Infrastructure ApplicationsProduct: WebSilo Document Collaboration SuiteFolio3Http://www.folio3.com Runner-up   Tools &…

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Learning Corporate Finance – APICTA and Manthan Awards nominations

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Jawwad

Learning Corporate Finance, a side project at Alchemy that we started to support our learning practice picked up two awards last week. Learning Corporate Finance (LCF) will be representing Pakistan in the e-learning category at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards being held in KL, Malaysia early next week. We were very lucky to be also…

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New Option pricing using spreadsheets course at Learning Corporate Finance

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Jawwad

This course focuses on an alternative method of implementing a two-dimensional binomial tree compared to the traditional method of building a binomial tree in excel presented in most option pricing text books.   The alternate approach is based on the techniques documented by Professor Mark Broadie at Columbia Business School as part of his coursework in…

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The Online Finance Course store goes live

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Jawwad

A full ten years after I wrote my first finance course, the Online Finance Course store is now live at the Learning Corporate Finance Portal. Over the last 30 months, our model for selling content online has taken some unexpected routes. Figuring out word press hacks, digital rights management and payment gateways in this part…

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Business School Applications: The Four core components of your b school application

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Jawwad

Here is another installment of my notes on your business school application. Here is a brief summary of to topics I cover in the sub posts that follow. The B School timelines post covers the personal profile and attributes that help you get through the application process. Success or failure of your application is dependent…

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