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Startup Training: Free Pitching for Startups video series. Pitching your dreams to investors and customers

28th January 2012 by Admin under Business School, Case Study, Small Business, Startup

Learning how to sell for startups: Sales and Investors Pitching free online workshop

Four videos.. 2 Hours, 40 minutes and change…No fees.

Two things made this happen.

The first was seeing the full 50+ session series online for course 600 at the MIT OCW site. This is how they teach computer science at MIT (a course I once dreamed about attending). Discovered it while testing our Android Application on our…

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Startup Guide: Code Launch: The 10 step guide to bombing your product launch

21st January 2012 by Admin under Business School, Small Business, Startup

1. Write a check – buy stuff and shit and run your meager bank account into the ground.

2. Add a team – grow to 10 people before you know it – do everything in house.

3. Add features like there is no tomorrow.

4. Forget the product, ship your launch date every time you get close to the launch date.

5. Buy hosting on Go-daddy.

6. Opt for Hamlet mode (Hands off I…

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Building Financial Models – Introduction

17th January 2012 by Admin under Business School, Finance, Small Business, Startup

In the first video session of our Financial Modeling training course we cover the following topics:

A quick review of the reasons why financial models are built and used. Principles for designing a great financial model How the financial modeling process may be applied to 3 very different situations. We look at retail spaces, a… Premium Courses Ratio Analysis$16.69Selling Derivative Products$199.00Credit Analysis - Financial Institution - EXCEL Example$29.00Credit Analysis & Credit Process - Package$49.00

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Business Plan competitions – The reasons why you didn't win

25th October 2011 by Admin under Business School, Small Business, Startup

Business Plan Competitions – The reasons why you didn’t win

This weekend at an out of town engagement an old friend and mentee asked me a simple question. Why do you decline or reject participants to the various business plan competitions you judge here, in the Middle East as well as in the Asia Pacific region.

Today when I finally finished judging the P@SHA Social Innovation Fund shortlisted entries my thoughts…

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More sample pitches: Toffeetv.com makes it case

12th October 2011 by Admin under Business School, Case Study, Small Business

Quick update on ToffeeTV.com

First, checkout their Eid special with Zeb and Haniya

Its a great example of two outstanding team collaborating to make beautiful music together…Four women, One in Lahore, one in Isloo, two in Karachi. Jazz, kids animation, e-learning, Kohat, Lahore and Karachi. Who would have thought?

Second the ToffeeTV.com Facebook page went ballistic this week and is well on its way to crossing…

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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: 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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US Credit Rating downgraded: Impact on commodities trading – outlook for the next week

6th August 2011 by Admin under Business School, Credit Process & Analysis, Middle Office and VaR

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday evening that S&P took the unprecedented step of downgrading the US credit rating from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook. While markets have been talking about this for some time now, the event and its timing explains the rout and turmoil in financial and commodities markets over the last two days.

The post market close rating cut on Friday evening should create…

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