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 and as few mathematical equations as possible. It had to be concise and to the point yet cover the basics of quantifying risk, implementing risk policies,…
Risk Applications and Frameworks: Dedication
Risk Applications and Framework went to print today. This is the third book we have sent to print this year. The first one (Reboot) took three years. Every new effort gets easier and easier. Full credit for this “Just Ship It” goes to Uzma Salahuddin and Agnes Paul on the content, editing and production side…
Startup Guide: Lessons from a failed startup
Looking through the wreckage of an old folder, found this post for the really early days of Reboot – the original list of lessons from a failed startup that became the book. Here is the list, with one new addition, five years later. 1) Technology is not a competitive advantage. Focus on the business problem…
Columbia Business School, 10th year, class of 2000 reunion update…
Frank Byrd was the portrait of a southern gentleman at Columbia. Cultured, polite, smart, likeable and very down to earth. I remember at least a handful of my class mates who used to swoon, every time Frank would pass by (don’t worry my lips are sealed, Frank make it worth my while and I will…
The Google Adsense update: Banner Exchange
Two new banners designed by the outstanding Nida Faizi that we started using yesterday on the Brinkin Banner exchange program as well across the rest of our domains. I had always felt that decently designed banners and images sometimes (not always) work better than simple text links on your blog rolls. Let’s see what happens…
The next generation of technology entrepreneurs…
In 1989 I was one of the fortunate few who found the then mostly unknown BCCI FAST ICS (now National University of Emerging and Computing Sciences), tucked away in a shady street between an Allied Bank branch and a commercial office complex. An unassuming collection of two thousand square yard bunglows, the foundation funded school…
Quick update on Oil Insights, the Google Adsense project
So for 25 short minutes (as this went to press), the latest crude oil insights post, made it to position number one on Google Blog search on the key word crude oil prices. For a semi-literate, sleep deprived, out of touch geek wannabe member of management, this is as sweet as it gets. I was…
Four conversations or my Google Adsense journey
My first introduction to using Google to make money was Zafar Khan and Sofizar at MITBAP. About a year ago I asked Zafar the inevitable SEO optimization question and got a few answers; up went a few pages at our home page business domain, representing the little I actually understood of the entire process around…
Desi Back To Desh is back on Alltop.
I still remember the day when thanks to Khan Atif, Mohtashim and Desi Back to Desh made it to Alltop on the same day. The office watched in horror as Mr. Shim and I jumped up and down, slapped each other on our backs and whopped with joy. One crazy fan did what we never…
Introducing Startup Insights – the new dedicated startup blog
Last night I finally got tired of searching for my old entrepreneurship posts on the Desi Back To Desh blog. Of the 430 plus posts here, there are about a hundred that focus on entrepreneurship. I thought that it was about time that these old nuggets should get a new home. Some of them are…