For the last four weeks I had been thinking about putting together a basic reading guide for mentees that would help them move forward and remove me as a bottleneck. A collection of short to the point posts that introduce them to a basic framework that many of us take for granted and most of us have never seen or …Read the Rest
Startup Guide: Escape to NYC – Pitching game
April 15, 2010
10 days ago I signed up for a second round of duty with the 4 hour plan – two weeks of sleeping four hours or less, in order for me to beat an impossible deadline – making a pitch for a client in a city that I had left 10 years ago, in front of one of the toughest audiences …Read the Rest
Startup Insiders: The Startup Insider session at T2F – highlights
April 15, 2010
It is always a good sign for the speaker(s) when they walk in 20 minutes early and the room is not empty. Armed with a drink and a bite, 5 minutes before show time, a half full room at a day’s notice shows how powerful and influential Jehan’s blog has become. One post is all it takes to fill up …Read the Rest
Startup Plan: Round one goes to Furrukh
April 15, 2010
A brilliant opening move by fresh FAST mentee, the one and only, “Man with an evil plan” Furrukh. A blog competition announced by webmasters that will create an indie community of bloggers, allow Furrukh to exchange link with all of them, create a online herd of follower that will hang on to every word uttered in the blogsphere, drive Google …Read the Rest
Mentoring assignment number three: Show up in strength at the startup insider session at T2F
April 13, 2010
If you are keen on meeting even more kick ass mentors, hear another round of uninspiring drivel from Jawwad Farid and Nauman Sheikh and corrupt even more young minds, bring at-least three friends to the SI session at T2F. Bonus points if all six of you manage to show up with 3 sidekicks each on Wednesday. Your attendance will be …Read the Rest
Startup Insiders: Back in Karachi: Business models that don’t work
April 13, 2010
Jehan is up-to no good again. As part of her desire to increase the number of non-conformist, flower bearing, independent, ultra cool apple product users, she wants as many young ones to work for themselves as possible (assuming that there is a connection, she thinks so). But rather than putting up unassailable success stories, this time she decided to put …Read the Rest
Startup Mentoring – Round two of the plan
April 13, 2010
Now that we have had a weekend to recover, here is the action plan for this week: All six mentees need to ensure that they have a basic blog and a Facebook account and a Facebook fan page up and running. Here is what a Fanpage looks like. I suspect that all of you have a facebook account (but not …Read the Rest
Student mentoring: Round One: Mentors vs Mentees
April 11, 2010
Furrukh came up with his first post of 30, covering the mentoring session. Taha is already on the doodleman coming soon to a pc near you in 29 days. And Rabia, Jehan, CIO and PASHA are keeping score. Let’s see what the coming week holds.
The CIO Mentoring session coverage
April 10, 2010
The CIO coverage of the mentoring session is now up. Rabia snuck a camera inside the session and shot some truly undercover coverage that has stuff which should not have come out in the open. Let’s see if you can find out what I am worried about. Furrukh where is your post; I have done mine, Rabia has done hers, …Read the Rest
Mentoring fellow dreamers – a start up game plan for final year students
April 10, 2010
It is always flattering when people come to you for mentoring advice knowing that you are a total and complete failure. CIO Pakistan did that this Saturday afternoon when they brought 7 impressionable young men with them. Just to make it interesting and worthwhile I had Nauman Shaikh from Credit Chex also over for a chat. Here is the essence …Read the Rest
