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Five years ago we started this practice to make a difference in our clients’ lives as well as set the standard for risk advisory services. We started with three guiding principles – making a contribution, multi dimensional thinking and implementation over inspiration. We ourselves thought we were too idealistic and were not sure if we would be able to maintain a balance between delivering value to our customers and being true to ourselves.
Five years later with the support of an amazing team of professionals and an even more amazing group of clients, today Alchemy is a national leader wherever risk management is mentioned. The Alchemy story and values are now quoted as the case study for work life balance and sustaining thought leadership.
To our teams and our clients, without whom this story would
have never been written. Thank you.
Jawwad Ahmed Farid
CEO
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Bluescreen of Death - A book about failure
For most of
us, failure represents the stuff of nightmares. What will happen
when there is no money in the bank account? Who will cover the
bills? School fees and day care, insurance premiums, milk? When
will they cutoff electricity, phone, natural gas and water? How
bad is that eviction notice? Starting with this list of
questions Jawwad weaves a tale that takes readers from New York
to California in search of the deepest fear of a new
entrepreneur - What if I fail? A touching confession that
alternates between the bittersweet reality of a dying venture
and the promise of multi million dollar valuations, the Blue
Screen of Death is a journey of self discovery that every
entrepreneur can relate to. It is a book of questions and
answers that will force us to re-examine our personal prejudices
against failure.
To order a copy of Reboot - in search for the Land of Opportunity please click here.
Reboot now available on Amazon.com
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Jawwad's
Blog
Oil Insights
The best of Jawwad Ahmed Farid from the Desi Back to Desh blog
On Entrepreneurship
* Kill your Ego
* The myth of a unique idea
* On Hamlet, Horatio and Shakespearean mythology
* A penny for your thoughts, pretty woman or the myth about raising
capital
* Strategy & tactics or winning for itsy bitsy teeny weenie little
Pakistani mom and pop tech shops
On Starting up
* Have fire, will travel or why you should listen to your heart
* Memories, Cookaracha Guides or venture number two
* Startup Insiders - Through the pictures
On Pitching
* APICTA, PASHA Awards - Do's and don'ts - old post re-hash
* Why customers say no
* The essence of a business plan competition
* The presentation cheat sheet - one
* The presentation cheat sheet - two
* The presentation cheat sheet - three
On Raising Capital
* Funding for dummies - one
* Funding for dummies - two
* Funding for dummies - three
* Funding for dummies - four
On Surviving
* There goes your coolant, here comes your core
* Things they never taught me at Columbia Business School
* Gary Travnicek
* Things to do in a down market, when you are not dead
* Stepping out of your comfort zone
On the Economy, Politics and Pakistan
* The rise and fall of the Pakistani rupee
* Student output and its extrapolation
* John LeCarre, this country and the elections in November
* Emergency - a guide for our non-local friends
* Myths about Pakistan or a middle class rejoinder
* You were saying, a rejoinder - part four
On the Pakistani technology scene
* Strategy for technology companies
* An abridged history of technology industry in Pakistan - one
* An abridged history of technology industry in Pakistan - two
* An abridged history of technology industry in Pakistan - three
On Travel
* Jakarta Impressions
* Baan Deva Montra, Chiang Mai, Thailand
* Building relationships; sticky rice with mangoes
* The Larry Ellison Fix in Karachi
* The best free entertainment in Singapore
* Red Light zones in Dubai
On Alchemy
* The alchemy story
* My loverly, not a typo, team
Personal
* Chotay Nana
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