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Startup Insiders – Pixsense – 6:00 pm, Thursday, 17th January 2008

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Jawwad

PASHA and Green and White host a two hour, free for all, ask what you want, insiders only session at Pix Sense on the how, why and where of starting your own technology venture in Pakistan. Bring yourself, your friends, your team members and your soul mates to show them the cool geeks you hang…

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Predictions for 2008

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Jawwad

Building up on predictions for 2008 at Tech Lahore We will once again witness a broad based equities melt down on NASDAQ and NYSE, but with a limited fall out in emerging markets.   Despite conditions back home, we will see an increase in the reverse brain gain into the country.   2008 will see…

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The next 50 years or Student output – its extrapolation and impact on our future

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Jawwad

In the course of my meandering search for Pakistani datasets, I came across the HEC website where I found to my surprise that: We produce about 150,000 students every year from our nationwide University system. The actual number was 118,000 in 2004 and projecting growth for 2005, 2006 and 2007 at the prior three year…

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Light up the darkness

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Jawwad

“It is better to light     a candle         than to rant             about the darkness”                     (Chinese proverb)   I have done my bit for today, go on and light a candle, before you go to sleep tonight…

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Murphy’s law

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Jawwad

On the eve of the day before making the single largest pitch in our history as a company, in a different city, I find out that I am booked to travel the day after the pitch is supposedly being made. How is that for timing. These are the days a great travel agent is made…

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Beat that Ms. Project Manager

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Jawwad

Having trained for the last five years with our aggressive technology project schedules at Alchemy Technologies, Fawzia Salahuddin our resident, in house, PMP, had no problems at all in taming and feeding a fully grown tiger cub in less than 15 seconds. If you want a similar job, please perform a similarly outrageous feat and…

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Oopss

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Jawwad

That by the way was post number 100 on wordpress…

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Business Plus spot on, Wednesday, 09 January 2008

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Jawwad

Three words. Don’t miss it.  Nayyab and I go on for about 15 minutes talking about working for your self….

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So what can you do…

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Jawwad

In the immortal words of Bob Marley, (as delivered by Will Smith, in I am Legend)     Light up the darkness…

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Hell hath no fury…

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Jawwad

670 bank branches (out of 5000)… 900 Cars…burnt after their CD players were stolen. FAST Institute of Computer Science Campus…Set alight after robbing it of newly delivered computer servers and workstations. 58 killed via bullets, knives and fire including 8 burnt alive at work… God knows how many miles of railway track, rail engines and…

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