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PASHA ICT Awards 2007 Update

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Jawwad

Jehan did a great post on the Awards, the categories and the process. If you are looking for nomination forms and additional details, here is the entire package in a neat and tidy zip file (APICTAForms.zip). Thank you Yusuf for getting this done.  

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The Alchemy Story – redux

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Jawwad

This has been an interesting week. I was out for a week in Dubai teaching our second course on derivative pricing at the EMBA program at SP Jain. The day I come back and check out my favorite blogs, I find that we received great coverage first from Osama Hashmi at Green and White, then…

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Have fire, will travel or Why you should listen to your heart

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Jawwad

It is bad enough that I have been asked to stay inside my room by my team, that Osama Hashmi at Green and white and I are playing tag, that I am not playing by the rules, now Adnan Haider (lootmaar.com) is jumping in to this debate to turn this into a threesome. For those…

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Strategy and tactics redux or Winning for itsy, bitsy, teeny, weenie, little Pakistani mom and pop tech shops.

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Jawwad

Here are my hard earned qualifications that allow me to speak on strategy. I have never been rich or famous (infamy is separate classification) or successful. Of the last four of my ventures, three were dismal failures. I have been teaching since a crazy afternoon in 1995, when I was asked to substitute for a…

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The Alchemy Story or How I became rude, mean and abusive

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Jawwad

Osama Hashmi at Green and White did a post on support for entrepreneurs and I thought it would be worthwhile to share our story with the community to add to the points I made on his blog. Here is my story. Year One. On 1st January 2003, I came back home to Karachi. I had…

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Marc Andreessen does a blog

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Jawwad

Marc, the Netscape founder does a series on the only thing you ever needed to learn to run your startup. Great validation for the Blue screen of Death.

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Strategy for Technology companies – Part I or THE RANT

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Jawwad

This is my second post on the technology scene in Pakistan. The series got triggered by a request on a report card for the industry in Pakistan. Strategy for technology companies is something that has never really been discussed threadbare in Pakistan.  Most technology discussions start with a quick comparison with India (look how big…

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The Technology scene in Pakistan or The List

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Jawwad

I wanted to do this for a very long time but never got round to it. This morning got up, made a few phone calls and put this post together.  Here is what I have done.  Using very raw numbers wrt to number of employees, average salary per employee, target profit potential, I have gone…

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TiE comes to Karachi with Light the fire

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Jawwad

TiE comes to Karachi with among other things, a business plan show down between LUMS Lahore and IBA Karachi. My money is riding on LUMS Lahore. Long story, short, I have seen more startups come out of LUMS Lahore, than IBA Karachi. If you are in town, make it a point to attend the show….

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Ken Morse and MIT on selling in Karachi

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Jawwad

Ken Morse, Bill Aulet and David Spector, from MIT E-labs conducted a two day crash course on selling for new ventures in Karachi. The two day workshop had 80 odd registered participants, all of them pre-qualified by the organizers. It was well worth it. Ken and Bill will be back in June to do a…

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