The Amtrak sleeper option to Charlottesville turned out to be a brilliant idea. I had a mile long list of action items and follow-ups that I had to do and if I had taken the LaGuardia or JFK route to CHO (the airport code for Charlottesville) it would have taken 40 minutes and as many…
Category: Alchemy stuff
The Columbia Business School – Reunion – old memories
I feel like a kid in a toy store. There is so much to see and do so many memories to revisit. And at 7 am on a chilled Monday morning the Columbia campus has only a few early risers spread like frostings on a cake on college walk. It is too early for students…
Startup Guide: CEO Club session at Columbia Business School
Thanks to Hasan, Carolyn, Ben and the CEO and SABA members for first arranging the session at Columbia Business at such short notice and then showing up in strenght at 8 am on a Monday morning. I was pleasantly surprised by the size and the enthusiasim of the audience. And as Hasan and Carolyn put…
Columbia College Walk-Cherry trees for Fawzia
It was only when I first saw the cherry trees and realized that Fawzia was not here with me at Columbia that I realized that before Reboot, before startups, and before our California adventure, the Cherry blooms I wrote about reminded me of something far more important than I ever realized. Our first year together…
Oil price outlook: Goldman, Volcanic Ash, and oil prices
Asia takes oil to below 82 on Goldman and travel disruption in Europe on account of the volcanic ash cloud. Expect more pressure as New York opens Monday morning and the entire commodity group heads south. As I said earlier today while Goldman will most likely only suffer a few minor bruises, oil and commodity…
Startup Trek: Dubai T3 Transit: In Search of a Power plug at 2 am
So the first casualty of the trip was my super comfy grey fleece that I lost at Karachi airport. Apparently if I am not wearing something, or it’s not attached to me or my bag pack there is a very good chance that I will forget it somewhere on an airport and realize the loss…
Startup Trek: The 7 days, 5 airport, 16,000 mile journey starts
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…
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…