I saw this World bank report a few months ago for the first time when it confirmed something that I had suspected all along. We don’t know how good we have it here in this country. If you are too busy being negative here is what you need to know: We are ranked at number…
Startup Insider # 7 – Karachi is here
This Saturday, 22nd March at Pixsense. 3pm – 6pm “The secret of pitching… How to convince customers to give you time, money and respect” The usual SI suspects will be there. Don’t miss it.
TAN is giving away money
MIT EF’s Tech Angel Network is giving away money (for equity in return) to promising technology startups with a credible story to tell. If you are one, send me a two pager explaining why you deserve TAN’s moolah as well as why you should be given a chance to make your pitch of a life…
Hamaray Zamanay main (In our times…)
When I came out of school There was no PASHA. There was no Startup Insiders. Access to MIT was an expensive unreachable vision. The internet existed but we weren’t aware of it. A high end computer was defined as something with the cutting edge x286 processor in it. And yet, some of us still went…
MIT BAP, Ken Morse, TAN and Pakistan
The setting was a small conference room at the Marriot in the year that was 2006. We had heard Ken Morse was making a brief stopover in town on his way to Isloo and Nida my MIT sister had managed to pick up four invitations from the MIT Club in Karachi. We were a very…
SI 6 – LUMS
I think the magic formula that binds us together is that we are all a bit mad. The team that stands and speak. The lads that sit down and listen. The women who walk in and stay. The children who keep on dreaming. Some time it takes just two of us, half a generation apart,…
Road trip
They say the only way to really know anyone is to travel with them. One part 400 kilometer motorway One part steady driving at the speed limit for 4 hours And one part three crazy individuals in the back seat! One crazier than the others….
Zafar Khan
You heard it here first. There will come a day in all of your lives when you will say, I know Zafar Khan, I shook his hand and I wear his T-Shirts. A lucky few will say, I heard him speak at LUMS. Fewer still will declare, I lost to Zafar, one fine day in…
Music in your soul
If the technology industry in Pakistan ever went looking for a face to represent it, I would suggest Fahd. With my eyes closed. To begin with, you can’t buy the sufi rock star look. You may fake it, but if there is no music in your soul, or wisdom in your words, it shows. Then…
Callisto…
If you read one book this week, make sure it is Callisto. Forrest Gump, meets Raymond Chandler in the background of the war on terror and the American Midwest. If you like dark comedies/fiction, Callisto is as dark as it gets. Torsten Krol introduces himself as “Krol is a writer, nothing further is know about…