Startup Guide: The startup crash course in 7 posts or less
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 understood. Here is an initial draft, will add to this as we move along.
Startup Guide: Finding the voice of the customer
Startup Guide: Strategy and Tactics
Startup Guide: Describing your product
Startup Guide: Linking pain, product, segment and reach
Startup Guide: How to win a business-plan competition
Startup Guide: Funding for dummies
Startup Guide: Hiring Great Talent
And when you are done reading these posts, if you still want more from the same keyboard, take a look at some of my earlier classics from the DesiBackToDesh blog
On Entrepreneurship
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
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
On Surviving
There goes your coolant, here comes your core
Things they never taught me at Columbia Business School
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
Baan Deva Montra, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Building relationships; sticky rice with mangoes
The Larry Ellison Fix in Karachi
The best free entertainment in Singapore
On Alchemy
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