Ken Morse, Bill Aulet and David Spector, from MIT E-labs conducted a two day crash course on selling for new ventures in Karachi. The two day workshop had 80 odd registered participants, all of them pre-qualified by the organizers. It was well worth it. Ken and Bill will be back in June to do a…
Murder on the wordpress express…
Well not so dramatic but we sort of got derailed by a errant line of code and were down for the past two weeks. We are up again, once again, thanks to Mohtashim and his weekends.
The Faisal Chohan Posts – II
The second post was written 5 days later for Friday times. Friday times ran a shorter, edited and modified version. Gist is still valid today. Forget PTCL and PSO, give technology a chance and you will not recongize Pakistan 10 years from now. Three technology entrepreneurs, one in Adiala Jail, one in Stanford, one on…
The Faisal Chohan Posts – I
Here is a series of posts that went around in early December 2006, on the Faisal Chohan and Cogilent issue. They are dated, but to some extent still relevant. This first post, is the note that went out earlier in December when we were still trying to get Faisal out of Adiala Jail. By the…
My dream vacation
Unlimited supply of fresh coconuts, white sandy beaches, 10 dollar rooms, no pressure, 25 degree weather and a new book to write…
Freedom
Early December is when blogger nuked me first with blogger beta and then with the new blogger. For some one with an opinion on almost every thing and used to sharing it with the rest of the world, it was being chained and put in a cell. To add to my misery this is about…
I am back , on WordPress…
I kicked out blogger and moved to wordpress! my updated blog, on wordpress. click on “older posts” to see my previous posts done through blogger.
Older Posts (Blogger)
Click below for my older posts https://blog.alchemya.com/blog/
About me
I am a self employed Karachiite with a questionable work ethic and a penchant for founding companies that run into trouble. After spending all of four and a half years outside Pakistan, I headed back home on New Year’s eve ’02 to find that it was far easier to live and do business at home……
To Fawzia
Here is to a loving wife, who let her gamer husband play CIV 4 all the way till 2 am at night, funds his various misadventures, takes him shopping to Makro and still comes to work with him to ensure that he doesn’t sink the boat when no one else is looking.