When I first met Don Sexton, Mark Broadie, Ralph Biggadike and John Whitney at Columbia, a few things stood out at once. All four were very successful, well established and well respected professionals. They had touched professional peaks I couldn’t even dream about and had nothing left to prove. All four changed my life. 8…
Narcissism Incorporated or “Here to looking at me, kid” or “Me on Sale”.
Of all the bad pictures of me out there in a suit, this baby probably takes the cake… Faisal Khan please down load and save for posterity Now for the real topic of this post… Adnan Haider at Lootmaar has finally pulled the ultimate stunt by putting me on sale. The deal includes lunch for…
Speaking at SZABIST Today
7:00pm – 8:00pm today at the 100 Clifton Campus in the Entrepreneurship class. Bring your questions.
The Startup Insiders series returns to Isloo
This Friday, April fourth, the SI series returns to Isloo with Bright Spyre and NUST. More details on Jehan’s blog.
I thought I’d seen everything…
To Fawzia, my partner in crime and everything else… “I thought I’d seen everything – til I saw youI thought I’d been everywhere – til I’d been with youI thought that everyone knew what I knewI thought I’d seen everything – til I saw you…” Sometimes you don’t need poetry, just a sappy, mushy song…
Extra, Extra…
FQ finally gives up and sues Jedi. Read all about it here As is the case with most great scandals, there are rumors of some nasty pictures involved.
SI 7 – roundup the usual suspects
I think of all the sessions we have done so far in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, we finally hit the right mix with the audience and the format with SI 7. It helped that we had a reasonable number of repeat offenders in the group listening to an equally offensive number of repeat CEO’s. We…
Adnan – Our Pixsense host for SI 1 and SI 7
Adnan and I have this secret deal. The day I will put a half decent picture of his on my blog, I will get a few shares of Pix sense at the series A valuation. I have also successfully cut the same deal with Dr. Umar Saif at LUMS and BumpIn (but sadly enough Jehan…
How to catch a bad pitch – SI 7 – Karachi – one
Just follow FQ’s reaction as Yusuf Jan, Jawwad Farid, Owais Zaidi pitch their wares at the role playing session on pitching and trip miserably. Faisal played the rude and rough customer role, riding all over our combined egos and our pitches on Saturday. Luckily we were only able to get Mr. Zaidi’s plight on camera….
I luv Roasters
The I love Roasters sub-committee at PASHA caught in action at the new Roasters outlet at Sindhi Muslim. There is a God in the heavens…. Not visible – Owais Zaidi since he volunteered to catch the guilty parties in the act. (The fat guy in blue is Jawwad (moa), followed by Zia, Jehan and Yusuf…