Startup Insights

We learn by doing, seeing and at time imitating. For that is what it took for me to write my first business plan. The course that made it happen was Glen Hubbard’s Entrepreneurial Finance at Columbia Business School. For the past three terms I had been working on the outline of an idea and using the spare time available at …Read the Rest

Eight months ago I asked myself a simple question. Is it possible to make money online selling content and advertising to people I haven’t met with only Google as a facilitator. The general answer I had received over the past few years was yes but the details about “how” were missing. Three friends held out their hands so that I …Read the Rest

Just tweaking an idea that has been bothering me for the last few days? How much would you pay for a peek at a real business plan that picked up funding, investors and partners? 10 dollars, 30 dollars, 50 dollars or more. The plan focuses on a technology and product business (so not a dry cleaner or deli) and includes …Read the Rest

At the CIP Lounge on Sunday night, just before boarding my Emirates flight to Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, I had a single thought in my mind. It would be nice to get some sleep for a change. The week leading up to the departure of our delegation to the APICTA 2010 awards scheduled at KLCC had been exciting as well as …Read the Rest

Interesting to note the clean sweep by CARE and CASE together at the ICT Awards and the win by Ali Abbas Sikandar, the Tameer Bank CIO for the PASHA ICT Awards CIO of the year award. While Islamabad companies have always done well at the award, this is the first time that one entity picked up five awards at the …Read the Rest

  The complete list of winners and runners up.   Research & DevelopmentProduct: Massively Parallel Fingerprint Matching SystemCARE (Center for Advanced Research in Engineering)www.carepvtltd.comWinner Research & DevelopmentProduct: HozaaTEchArete(Pvt) Ltdwww.techArete.comRunner-up Research & DevelopmentProduct: BlastSimHikmah Techwww.HikmahTech.comRunner-up Tools and Infrastructure ApplicationsProduct: TangoElixir Technologies Pakistanwww.elixir.com www.tango.elixir.com Winner Tools and Infrastructure ApplicationsProduct: WebSilo Document Collaboration SuiteFolio3Http://www.folio3.com Runner-up   Tools & Infrastructure ApplicationsProduct: SysDocFlowSystems Limitedwww.systemsltd.com/ Runner-up …Read the Rest

Binomial Trees This course focuses on an alternative method of implementing a two-dimensional binomial tree compared to the traditional method of building a binomial tree presented in most option pricing text books.   The alternate approach is based on the techniques documented by Professor Mark Broadie at Columbia Business School as part of his coursework in Security Pricing and Computational Finance …Read the Rest

Basic Accounting Crash Course: Small Business Accounting training: General Journal and General Ledger   As mentioned before, all the transactions that do not involve cash or do not deal with inventory will go to the general journal first and then to the relevant ledgers. Examples of such transactions can be the sale and purchase of fixed assets, adjustments that need …Read the Rest

This course focuses on an alternative method of implementing a two-dimensional binomial tree compared to the traditional method of building a binomial tree in excel presented in most option pricing text books.   The alternate approach is based on the techniques documented by Professor Mark Broadie at Columbia Business School as part of his coursework in Security Pricing and Computational Finance …Read the Rest