Project Concept – The Blue Screen of Death For most small business founders, failure represents the stuff of nightmares. What will happen when there is no money in the bank account? Who will cover the bills? School fees and day care, insurance premiums, milk? When will they cutoff electricity, phone, natural gas and water? How…
I am baaaaaaaaack
Amman, Jordan was an interesting experience. So was the new all dug up Dubai… And the teaching gig at SP Jain in Academic City and the two kilometers I had to walk to Karachi airport with 35 Kgs of luggage to catch the 12:15 emirates connection to Dubai to make it on May 12th. I…
TiE comes to Karachi with Light the fire
TiE comes to Karachi with among other things, a business plan show down between LUMS Lahore and IBA Karachi. My money is riding on LUMS Lahore. Long story, short, I have seen more startups come out of LUMS Lahore, than IBA Karachi. If you are in town, make it a point to attend the show….
Alchemy’s first workshop in BKK
Ran a day long workshop on Basel II – Risk Models in Bangkok. Couldn’t be possible without the support and effort of our local partners in Thailand, Wealth Management. We had around 60 participants from the Thai SEC, the Ministry of Finance, the local mutual funds, local banks, and related financial institutions. I am still…
Second brush with the Big Bad Dee
February 2001… I sort of drowned in the pool, off my loverly (not a typo) pool in southern california. Well not exactly my pool and since I shared with 90 other residents in the complex. But at the time of the first big Dee incident, I was the only one in it, it was as…
Travelling again
Off to Bangkok, Dubai and Amman, Jordan. Will be out of action for the next 15 days. In the mean time Life is a crisis, all life long (sung to the tune of Life is a Highway, the Cars song….)
Sohail Hashmi turns 90
Sohail Hashmi of the Breakfast show at 89 (the no breakfast show in Ramadan), turns 90. End of this month, listeners to Classics, Rocket, Jazz, Soul and Golden Oldies will have to find another RJ to enlighten them because Sohail is moving on. Sohail has been a breath of fresh air in our lives. Monday…
Two new covers
Just wrapped up two new cover designs for our new product brochure and our new platform handbook. All credits go to Jehan, Nida and Sabir at Enabling Technologies or ET. ET is so good and efficient that it is scary. In our last two projects it took them less than 48 hours to come up…
At work on Pakistan day
We thought the best way to celebrate Pakistan day would be to contribute to the GDP. Half the team is in the office slaving off for a client pitch on Monday.
Mohtashim joins the cause
It was a long drawn three year pitch but it finally happened in early February. Mohtashim Ahmed finally quit his day job and joined the cause at Alchemy. A veteran of Clear Cube, IBM and Inbox, Mr. Shim will be helping us scale up and get leaner, meanier and nastier.