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Customer Persona of a MBA Student: What does a typical business school student looks like?

9th March 2012 by under B School, Business School, Pitches, Startup     

We have spoken about building customer persona’s before on this site.

Last week we ran another detailed customer persona exercise for the Starting up class I teach at SP Jain. Here is the output from the class session.

The primary question posed to the group was:

What does a typical North American MBA student look like at a top 10, top 20 business school? How would you start building a customer…

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The iPad application that is trying to teach computational finance to the world.

12th February 2012 by Jawwad under B School, Business School, FourQuants, Online MBA Resources, Smart Phones and Education     

Let’s get all the weird stuff out of the way first.

A four man team based out of a bungalow in Karachi is doing interesting stuff in Finance. They are trying to teach it to the world.

What started off as a personal journey to understand why oil hit 147 dollars in 2008 and why the global financial crisis brought the world down on its knees,…

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The Pitching for Startup Course – A guide to presenting winning pitches for your business plans

10th October 2011 by Admin under B School, Business School, Online MBA Resources, Recommended Reading, Small Business, Startup     

The buy now page for Pitching for Startups Training Course is now live

Pitching for Startups: The Background

Arui Levi was the first board member I had who understood the process of fund raising. “A great idea and a great story are not enough, you need more than that for someone like me to take out my check book and sign away a part of my net worth to your…

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Business Plan Pitches: SP Jain EMBA Students take a shot at pitching their dreams

21st August 2011 by Admin under B School, Business School, Small Business, Video     

Here is the second round of our annual business plan pitching competition courtesy of my EMBA students at the SP Jain campus in Dubai.  The entrepreneurship crash course was conducted in mid July 2011 and had 45+ students submitting 45+ business plan pitches each from two batches (Batch 17 and Batch 18) for a final haul of 90 presentations.

This post presents the top five pitches and an honorable…

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US Credit Rating Downgrade: Commodities price impact: Using gold to price oil

8th August 2011 by Admin under B School, Business School, Featured, Middle Office and VaR     
Downgrade impact: Looking at historical correlations across Asset types

In the short term we believe that as markets adjust to the US credit rating downgrade news historical correlations are likely to break down. Eventually though they would likely return to around historical levels as the world economies adjusts to what analysts are calling the “new normal” for US sovereign debt. Which allow us to answer my questions about the price…

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US Credit Rating Downgrade: Impact on financial and commodities markets

7th August 2011 by Admin under B School, Business School, Credit Process & Analysis, Middle Office and VaR, Recommended Reading     
US Credit Rating downgrade: Impact assessment The Rating Downgrade

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgrade of the US sovereign credit long-term rating by a single notch on Friday evening, 5th August 2011, after US markets closed has been the topic for the last 24 hours. The rating agency downgraded the US from its coveted triple A (AAA) rating to a double A plus (AA+) rating with a negative outlook, the first…

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Start up School: Customers personas and profiles or building the foundation for your pitch

29th July 2011 by Admin under B School, Business School, Small Business     

Every year before we start our weeklong entrepreneurial crash course at SP Jain I ask my audience two questions

What is holding them back from following their dreams? What is the one question that they would like to know the answer to after they are done with the course?

The most common answers to the two questions above (more questions) are:

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Startup School: Understanding Customers, Painting your Mona Lisa or who is the hero in your movie?

19th July 2011 by Admin under B School, Business School, Small Business     

Over the last two weeks as I have run the latest batch of my victims through a course on entrepreneurship, one question keeps on stumping all of them.

How do I build a verbal and visual portrait of my customers and what level of detail is enough? Why is this important? Are there any short cuts that I can use?

Let’s start with question number 2 first?

If you think of your pitch as…

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Startup School: My EMBA Entrepreneurship students take a shot at pitching their dreams

12th July 2011 by Admin under B School, Business School, Small Business, Video     

In the 5 years I have been teaching the Entrepreneurship course at the SP Jain Campus in Dubai we have come a long way. Both students and their facilitator.

When we started we could only manage to do 10 – 12 group presentations on our final night. That night ran all the way till 2 am. We then switched to camtasia 7 and youtube and this year we have increased…

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Education Technology: Graphic Tablet and Interactive Whiteboards – a non-iPad, non-iMac, non-tablet PC based quest inspired by the Khan Academy.

7th July 2011 by Admin under B School, Business School, Small Business, Video     

(If you are here because of Sal Khan – Khan Academy screen recording recipe and you want to do it on a PC, its Camtasia, Wacam Bamboo or Genius Graphic Tablet and Smooth Draw or if you have issues with Smooth Draw, Uniboard. There, just saved you a few minutes of reading the full post)

Ever since I saw Salman Khan at Khan Academy at work I wanted…

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