Risk Applications and Framework went to print today. This is the third book we have sent to print this year. The first one (Reboot) took three years. Every new effort gets easier and easier. Full credit for this “Just Ship It” goes to Uzma Salahuddin and Agnes Paul on the content, editing and production side…
Category: Alchemy stuff
The Google Adsense update: Banner Exchange
Two new banners designed by the outstanding Nida Faizi that we started using yesterday on the Brinkin Banner exchange program as well across the rest of our domains. I had always felt that decently designed banners and images sometimes (not always) work better than simple text links on your blog rolls. Let’s see what happens…
The next generation of technology entrepreneurs…
In 1989 I was one of the fortunate few who found the then mostly unknown BCCI FAST ICS (now National University of Emerging and Computing Sciences), tucked away in a shady street between an Allied Bank branch and a commercial office complex. An unassuming collection of two thousand square yard bunglows, the foundation funded school…
Quick update on Oil Insights, the Google Adsense project
So for 25 short minutes (as this went to press), the latest crude oil insights post, made it to position number one on Google Blog search on the key word crude oil prices. For a semi-literate, sleep deprived, out of touch geek wannabe member of management, this is as sweet as it gets. I was…
Desi Back To Desh is back on Alltop.
I still remember the day when thanks to Khan Atif, Mohtashim and Desi Back to Desh made it to Alltop on the same day. The office watched in horror as Mr. Shim and I jumped up and down, slapped each other on our backs and whopped with joy. One crazy fan did what we never…
Introducing Startup Insights – the new dedicated startup blog
Last night I finally got tired of searching for my old entrepreneurship posts on the Desi Back To Desh blog. Of the 430 plus posts here, there are about a hundred that focus on entrepreneurship. I thought that it was about time that these old nuggets should get a new home. Some of them are…
The myth of a unique idea – one
How important is it to start off with an idea that no one has ever thought of before. Something absolutely unique, different and able to stand up on its own. A concept that would win you grudging respect from your friends, colleagues, class mates and neighbors. “That is one smart dude” they’d whisper as they…
A walk down memory lane – A case for heading back home – ‘nuff said
“The same conversation at TechLahore needs to be blamed for this walk down memory lane. Dated but still relevant.” BBS and AKU Sunday evening – 20th February 2005 As I write these lines sitting outside the Neo Natal ICU at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), I don’t need any reasons to thank Allah for…
A walk down memory lane…The case for Pakistan in 2006
“Wrote this piece in July 2006, pissed at the Economist’s attempt to writeoff Pakistan, while a little dated, it is still largely relevant. A conversation at techlahore triggered the desire to dig this out from under the many folders it was hiding under…” The Economist piece on Pakistan If you believed the Economist, there…
Linking Pain, Features, Pricing, Segments and Reach
Teaching entrepreneurship is difficult. Teaching it to 50 smart kids can at times get rough. Teaching it to 150 students distributed across 50 groups with very interesting ideas across 25 odd domains will make you get up at 4 am in the morning after catching a few winks past midnight just so that you can…