Ever since I started running risk management training workshops and teaching Executive MBA students, I had been looking for a textbook that walked the middle ground between plain English, as few mathematical equations as possible and exactly the right topics I needed to teach. It had to be concise and to the point yet cover…
Category: Alchemy stuff
Business Plan Cheat Sheet – Two business plans up for a half baked sale
We learn by doing, seeing and at time imitating. For that is what it took for me to write my first business plan. The course that made it happen was Glen Hubbard’s Entrepreneurial Finance at Columbia Business School. For the past three terms I had been working on the outline of an idea and using…
I quit.
A few months short of forty, my most recent product launch almost put me into the ground. While the details are hazy and there are many candidates responsible for making me miss a week of work, the conclusion this afternoon was clear. I am too old for the life I have been leading the last…
How not to move your blog in ten easy steps…
It would be funny if I hadn’t lived through it. When I first started thinking about moving Learning Corporate Finance from its original home I didn’t think the move would take more than two weeks. A week to pack up, research a good SEO optimized name, another to regroup, redploy and redirect. A quick dry…
FinanceTrainingCourse.com is now live
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…
Quick question: How much should one pay for a peek at a real business plan
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…
APICTA ICT Awards, Kula Lumpur Malaysia – Pictures and Snapshots
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…
Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2010 – After thoughts at 10,000 meters in the air…
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…
PASHA ICT Awards 2010 – List of winners and runners up.
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…
PASHA ICT Awards 2010 – List of winners and runners up.
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 &…