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The Myth of Unique Ideas
How important is it to
start off with an idea that no one has ever thought of before.
Something absolutely unique, different and able to stand up on
its own. A concept that would win you grudging respect from your
friends, colleagues, class mates and neighbors.
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The Alchemy Story – Redux
This has been an
interesting week. I was out for a week in Dubai teaching our
second course on derivative pricing at the EMBA program at SP
Jain. The day I come back and check out my favorite blogs, I
find that we received great coverage first from
Osama Hashmi at Green and White, then
Jehan at her blog, and finally
Babar Bhatti did a piece on the entrepreneurial movement in
Pakistan on Pakistanyat that mentioned us as well as the blog
threesome Adnan, Osama
and I ran for a few days in end June.
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Have Fire, Will Travel
It is bad enough that I have been asked to stay inside my room
by my team, that Osama Hashmi at
Green and white and I are
playing tag, that I am not playing by the rules, now
Adnan Haider
(lootmaar.com) is jumping in to this debate to turn this into a
threesome.
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The Alchemy Story
Year One. On 1st January 2003,
I came back home to Karachi. I had 16,000 dollars in credit card
debt from venture
number one, Avicena, an asthmatic three year old, another
one in beta (we were expecting Salwa) and an IBM Thinkpad T-30,
that I had bought with the last two thousand dollars in my bank
account. Over the phone in Virginia I had received two semi firm
offers and three solid introductions that I hoped would lead to
decent interviews in the city.
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