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Finance Careers: A tale of two startups.

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Jawwad

You will never know how wrong you were till you actually do it with your own hands and fail. If you are really lucky you get a chance to compare your performance against a benchmark that you can relate to. I was wrong and I was lucky. My first two ventures were inspired by Luke…

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Career choices: From banking and consulting to Startup land in southern California

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Jawwad

New York 1999. I am a business school student with a combination of dangerous ideas, irrelevant experiences, incomplete education and out of control ambitions. In any other country I would be institutionalized. In New York City, I am the startup guy, the dude with the business plan. While a few leads from Goldman and an…

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Career Choices: From Columbia to Goldman and back – Switching from consulting to investment banking …

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Jawwad

So here I was with an offer letter from Columbia, no job (I quit) and no money to cover my Ivy League business school tuitions. Back in 1998 these were days where your email account only caught a handful of emails every day, unlike the raging horde of spam that lands every morning in my…

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Finance Training Courses: Top Posts in December

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Jawwad

Finance Course Store | Finance Training Courses – 453 Views Corporate Finance First Course | Finance Training Courses  – 256 Views ICAAP Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Sample ICAAP report format and table of content | Corporate Finance Training Courses – 248 Views The Derivatives Crash Course for Dummies | Finance Training Courses  – 192 Views Calculating Forward…

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December Traffic update: It is down with a capital D…

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Jawwad

Apparently everyone who has been reading Learning Corporate Finance is stuck at New York airport waiting for their flights, stuck in the subway for the snow to clear or in transit back to warmth and civilization. And those that didn’t venture out have snuck into their blankets with thick warm book. No one wants to…

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Grey, cold and silent…

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Jawwad

The city is grey, cold and silent. I love Decembers, except when I am in New York, when my affections shift to April. I could use a heater in the room since my new bald (Bond, James Bond) look is acting as an efficient conductor of heat seeping outside my system. In the interest of…

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Career choices that I made – early professional consulting career – lessons learnt

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Jawwad

Career Lesson One – Opt for computer science The reason why I have such a soft corner for computer science is that I don’t think it is an optional undergraduate degree. I think it is a mandatory skill set that teaches us how to think and approach problems and then gives us an opportunity to…

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The Career choices I have made – my early professional consulting career: The path of an entrepreneur

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Jawwad

28 December 1992 is the day when I said no to my first and only job offer after 15 years of extremely expensive education. It was late evening on Chundrigar Road (our financial down town) with the December chill lurking around the corner making the world looking a little bit greyer than it really was….

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The Swan Thieves – The other novel by Elizabeth Kostova

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Jawwad

In my old age I am getting crankier and difficult to work with. Little things set me off like a fire cracker. And every now then I take a reaction to heart and go hide behind my laptop. When time gets tough this laptop hiding game becomes even more interesting and frequent. Two months ago…

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On doubling web traffic – guidance note for a new hire and the Adsense addiction

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Jawwad

My state of mind these days is just completely dominated by traffic. Anything to add a few more visitors to Learning Corporate Finance and book a few more sales through my Online Finance Course Store. Once upon a time, before I met Zafar Khan, I was a normal guy. I would get up at 5…

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