Startup Insights

Imagine a world where you are extremely unhappy with your broadband service and you disconnect it. The service provider confirms that it has been done. You receive an email confirming that your request has been received. You hear nothing for the next few weeks. In August you find out that the service provider has been taken over for PTCL. Actually …Read the Rest

National ICT Policy There are many ways to approach and develop a national ICT policy framework. Over the last eleven years a number of initiatives have been undertaken in this area by individuals and groups sponsored by our technology industry association (P@SHA), Ministry of IT (MOIT), by the state (the Planning Commission), local and expatriate Pakistanis. Within the list of …Read the Rest

Welcome to the weekend and three spanking new courses live at Finance Training Course.com In the Pitching Case Studies course (55 minutes) we review common challenges faced by startup and venture teams in making an impression, including: Making a pitch real Breaking the “They can’t do it mindset” Presenting and pitching financial models Visualizing customer pain and choice Building credibility …Read the Rest

Do you like to travel to exotic location with strange people? Do you like to write and take pictures and record videos? Can you move social media with a flick of your pen? Make founders and geeks clamor for your attention? If you fit the bill, take at look at the P@SHA Making History Project. Free ticket, boarding and food …Read the Rest

Here is the abbreviated pitch for Toffeetv.com and a short note to my friend Salman and his team. The market There are 7 million expat Pakistanis outside Pakistan. This number does not include the second or third generation or extended families and is limited to current NICOP and Passport holders. If you include Pakistani origin individuals and families the number …Read the Rest

Please note that these are my private opinions as an individual and do not reflect the views of P@SHA or its membership body. Every year the P@SHA ICT Awards ceremony hosts 500 hundred plus souls for a night. We have now been doing this for 8 years and the show as well as the number of entries has grown many …Read the Rest

The job – Video transcribers, content editors and content writers Alchemy Technologies has a client who needs transcription services for a number of English videos. This is an ongoing assignment that will carry well into the next year. In its first phase about 12 hours of videos need to be transcribed in English.  If you are interested and feel that …Read the Rest

Three new posts at the Finance Training Course portal this week that broke the popularity graph. Continuing Profession Education (CPE) online learning solutions for actuaries Stress testing crash course for Board of Directors and Board Risk Committee members Cross selling treasury products Two new online video based courses – The Stress Testing, ALM and Capital Adequacy Crash Course and the …Read the Rest

Crazy doesn’t even come close… Monday morning Jehan reminded me of my two commitments to judge the P@SHA Launch Pad event as well as stumble my way through 2 feet (yup that is how high they stack) of applications received for the P@SHA Social Innovation Fund. As I dressed and rushed to leave home on our daily 18 kilometer trek …Read the Rest

Here is the model we used last year to dissect the projected price behavior of oil. This was a fundamentals driven model that examined supply and demand gap, future supply sources and shocks, core demand growth drivers and relative value effects. The same approach was used later this year in building our fundamentals driven model for gold price forecast. Our …Read the Rest