Sam Philips interview for the Actuary was the first published review received by BSOD/Reboot. Though a little dated, it is still relevant. Sam also talks about the book in a sidebar
Category: Desi Startup
My crazy ride to see my word in print
For more than a decade of my life I was a professional student (which means that I worked, took exams on the side for a professional designation and waited for a very long time to add three letters against my name). A chapter that started in the monsoons of ’89 in Bombay finally closed itself…
An abridged history of the technology industry in Pakistan, three
When the time came for us to graduate things had started to get exciting. GUI tools were getting more impressive. Borland was getting the whacking of a life time at the hands of Microsoft in everything other than development environments and was returning the favor in IDE’s (Integrated Development Environments). The era of Word Star…
An abridged history of technology industry in Pakistan, two
1991 is the year when the world changed for me forever. At the beginning of my fourth term at FAST ICS my father went out and bought me an Intel 286 DTK computer. He borrowed 30,000 rupees from two elders in my extended family. For us as a household, it was an unthinkable amount and…
You were saying, a rejoinder four…
Look here and here. There is more behind the G-20 and Nato protests than these selective images show case. The violence is hard to ignore but it overshadows the cause, the concept, the organization or the impact. So if I was the only source of information you had, my commentary the basis of your opinion,…
Stop press
2nd Edition of the blue screen of death has now gone to the press. Expected release date, somewhere in the next 8 weeks. You are looking at the million dollars, 4 color, fully automated Mitsubishi printing work horse in Singapore that will be responsible for bringing this fine piece of scholarship out in the form…
The essence of a business plan competition
Professor Grandhi at SP Jain is a new friend who had been after me to share my thoughts about what business plan competition at a business school should look like. The post goes out to him and all other promoters of entrepreneurship who believe that we should catch this generation young. Preferably corrupt their minds…
Teaching the dreamer course again
In Dubai, teaching the entrepreneurship course from today till the end of the month. More later
Rupee dollar parity – two
As per Ansar’s request, here is a breakdown of our imports for December 2008. All figures in ‘000 US$. Food Groups 236,176 Machinery 486,280 Mobile phones 10,149 Transport 107,040 Petrochemicals 403,592 Textiles 132,305 All others 761,520 …
The Rupee dollar outlook
The slow down and the correction has finally hit the trade numbers. The bad news is that compared to the previous month, December exports fell by about 14% in dollar terms. The good news is that imports fell by 22% and the balance of trade is now down to only 800 million US dollars. Foreign…