Running a small business is difficult. No one ever said it would be easy. You sleep less and work harder and that is the part you actually enjoy. Everything else is a struggle. If your small business is a technology company it just upgrades your nightmares to a different class – your personal nuclear reactor…
Category: Alchemy stuff
And here we go again…
Can’t keep an alchemist away from food for too long. Since July and August are birthday treat and new hire months at Alchemy, we have had an exceptionally wild week. Early this week was the 18 pie pizza party thrown by Sarang, Hammad and Mussadiq. Which was quickly followed by Arif’s kunnah (an exotic north…
PASHA Career Expo Today
Once upon a time in an industry far far away, there were only four technology companies, only one programming language and a single half way decent computer science program. That was once upon a time (two and a half decades ago) in an industry far far away. Today at the PASHA Career Expo, more than…
PASHA Study out on paper
After 18 months of joint effort by two consecutive Central Executive Committees and an outstanding Pakistani origin consultant in UK, the PASHA review of software industry is out in print. A soft copy of the executive summary is available here. Printed copies are available from the PASHA secretariat at a small cost. Built on the…
The last lecture screening at Alchemy
Today at about 12 pm we did a snap screening of the last lecture. It sort of served as an office warming party, an orientation for the most recent member of the Alchemy team and yet more free food. Some of us had already downloaded and seen Randy’s performance at CMU. This was a chance…
Men in Black
All it takes is one suit to start an epidemic. After Imran’s (far right) arrival in February we became a much more respectable firm. Grey hair tends to do that. Four month’s later the Alchemy pitch is now being made by a team of MIB agents, one short of half a dozen. From left to…
New Alchemy Campus Sneak Peak
Here is what has been keeping me busy for the last two months… The new Alchemy campus. 6000 square feet, trees in full bloom, ample breathing space. Our own rockery, stonelaid paths and multiple table tennis tables. More pictures and the story behind the campus to follow once we have moved in and there is…
Kill your ego…
When I first met Don Sexton, Mark Broadie, Ralph Biggadike and John Whitney at Columbia, a few things stood out at once. All four were very successful, well established and well respected professionals. They had touched professional peaks I couldn’t even dream about and had nothing left to prove. All four changed my life. 8…
How to catch a bad pitch – SI 7 – Karachi – one
Just follow FQ’s reaction as Yusuf Jan, Jawwad Farid, Owais Zaidi pitch their wares at the role playing session on pitching and trip miserably. Faisal played the rude and rough customer role, riding all over our combined egos and our pitches on Saturday. Luckily we were only able to get Mr. Zaidi’s plight on camera….
Hamaray Zamanay main (In our times…)
When I came out of school There was no PASHA. There was no Startup Insiders. Access to MIT was an expensive unreachable vision. The internet existed but we weren’t aware of it. A high end computer was defined as something with the cutting edge x286 processor in it. And yet, some of us still went…