Roads are open, some schools are closed, traffic is variable depending on the neighborhood, given the unrest in the city last night. Lighter traffic in Gulshan going towards NIPA, reasonable going towards the city. I filled up from a PSO petrol pump on University Road and then drove through the Baloch colony express way onto…
The Google checkout update
One plus of the travel bug is that my body is thoroughly confused about the time zone I am in and the right time for me to sleep (these days it is anytime, all the time). Insomnia and Google Checkout go well together as I found out tonight experimenting with the checkout gadget. Took four…
27,000 Kilometers and counting
On 19th April when I boarded the Emirates flight to JFK, I had no idea that for the next three weeks I will be on the road. My one week trip to the US to explore new markets somehow mutated into a three week trek involving mid night flights to UAE, early morning wakeup calls…
New copies of Reboot in stock
I have managed to siphon twenty copies of Reboot from the most recent print run in Singapore on its way to Dubai and the US. Please grab your copy for 1,100 plus shipping costs from the Reboot site before they run out.
Startup Guide: The Darden Reboot Chat – Videos are here
And they are here. Seven episodes due to the youtube 10 minute rule. Many thanks to Uzma for burning the midnight oil, encoding the video and solving the volume problem once and for all. Thank you Adnan for ensuring that the session gets recorded for the family (as well as agents and friends) and shipping…
Crude Oil price outlook: Euro breaks 1.3, Oil slide to 82
Euro slides to 1.2960, while crude oil prices fall on inventory update and strong dollar after staying in the 86 neighborhood for the last few trading days. More pain ahead for Euro and Oil bulls?
Confessions of a Luddite
All these years I thought I needed a decent cell phone to be on twitter…Last night when I finally took the plunge, it was painfully apparent that as I get closer to 40, my need for a brain transplant is becoming more visible and apparent. My antiquated Nokia was not a necessary or sufficient condition……
Teaching Ethics to business school students
If there was one mandatory course that all business school students are allergic to, it would be ethics. Not that business school students have a personality flaw that makes them hate the subject, it is just that we intensely dislike being preached to. We are smart, intelligent and savvy enough to figure out what is…
Startup Trek: Pitching lessons
If possible always have multiple sales pitches for a meeting. A pitch could be for a product, a service, a referral or even information about the industry that isn’t widely available. For the US trip it was Alchemy Risk Manager, Outsourced research, two investment banking deal and selling Pakistan as an investment destination (product ideas…
Startup Guide: Darden Reboot Chat – transcript of the EVC, DSAS event
Thank you very much for showing up for my chat. My name is Jawwad Ahmed Farid and I am a failure. Before I became a member of Failure anonymous, I always wanted to be a winner. I wanted my own world record; see myself where you see Mr. Usain Bolt; ideally with a medal or…