Yahoo-Tumblr acquisition – How did the math work out?
I think there are multiple methods at work here: a) Traffic Integration - What is Tumblr’s Traffic worth to Yahoo? What can Yahoo sell to these customers or sell these customers for? Over the next 5 years how much revenue would this traffic add to Yahoo’s bottom line? Read the [...]
Everything you wanted to ask about startup failure but were afraid to ask
You were wondering what the fuss is all about? After all its just a book? So what if its on the iPad? Why does that make Reboot special? We put together a special section answering common questions around Reboot that have been asked. [...]
Pitching for startups?
Reboot, 3rd edition for iPad with a brand new chapter and 7 new videos on Pitching for startups is now available at the iTune store. Download it at the launch special $4.99, valid till 31st May 2013.
It started as a labor of love.
Part obituary, part therapy, part getting the record for history right. [...]
Why do startups fail?
No, really, why do we fail?
Why isn’t an even mix of ambition, inspiration, hard work, talent, drive, commitment and creativity enough? And why more often than not, a superior mix of the above ingredients fares much worse than a much more boring, passé combination.
I have spent a large part of the last [...]
Thursday night fire side chat on startup failure organized by the OPEN Washington DC chapter turned out to be a brilliant experience. In the end it’s the audience that determines how well a session goes and the OPEN DC audience was everything a speaker could ask for. Receptive, interactive and generous with their feedback [...]
This Saturday, at midnight, somewhere over the Persian Gulf, I stooped to an all time low.
Our creative and editing team had been burning the midnight oil for the last week to ensure that we were able to ship Reboot, 3rd edition for the iPad before I headed out to New York. At 254 pages, 8 [...]
Risk Training’s new interface for 2013
We asked, you answered, we delivered.
Based on your feedback, the absolutely essential Google page analytics tool and our friends at Pingdom.com we have been hard at work for the last few months. You, dear readers, asked us to deliver:
A faster, more responsive site.
More focus on risk, risk training and risk [...]
700 risk model training pdf and excel downloads later.
A year ago, just before the ids of March kicked off we booked our biggest month of sales. While FinanceTrainingCourse.com had evolved and grown ever since its humble beginning as a wordpress blog, last year was special. We had scrounged to put together a workable budget for [...]
Jawwad Farid
In the last 17 years of teaching I have never seen a batch of students come together so well.
Yes I have seen classes that do well and gel well. I have groups that have outstanding performers. Some who have become good friends over the years. Others that we sneak out with and grab a [...]
Jawwad Farid
Selling Financial Content to Smart People – The evolution of a financial training platform
You have all seen the new design changes at FinanceTrainingCourse.com. The changes were based on more than 12 month of usability feedback from our users as well as Google Analytics and took over seven months to implement. I thought it would [...]
