I had always wanted to do this.
Take my favorite posts from over the years and put them in one easy to find place where I can go hide when I wanted to run away from the world. Tonight I decided to do something about it. For the benefit of my newly minted ranks of blog readers who had missed out on my earlier rants and raves as well as my regular readers who may have missed out on some of these during self imposed blackouts when my barely adequate wordpress skills crashed my blog
Here are my favorite posts from the Desi Back to Desh blog. 42 posts, 10 categories, 3 years.
Enjoy and don’t forget to drop me a line.
On Entrepreneurship
- Kill your ego
- The myth of a unique idea – one
- On Hamlet, Horatios and Shakespearean mythology…
- A penny for your thoughts, pretty woman, or the myth about raising capital
- Strategy and tactics redux 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 rehash
- Why customers say no or How to turn your customers into repeat buyers?
- The essence of a business plan competition
- The Presentation cheat sheet – one
- The Presentation cheat sheet – two – impact
- The presentation cheat sheet – Three – The Problem Statement
On Raising Capital
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
- The next 50 years or Student output – its extrapolation and impact on our future
- John LeCarre, this country, and the elections in November
- Emergency – a guide for our non-local friends, and our local friends who are no longer local…
- Myths about Pakistan – a rant, or a middle class rejoinder – one
- You were saying, a rejoinder four…
On the Pakistani technology scene
- Strategy for Technology companies – Part I or THE RANT
- An abridged history of technology industry in Pakistan – one
- An abridged history of technology industry in Pakistan, two
- An abridged history of the technology industry in Pakistan, three
On Travel
- Jakarta Impressions…
- Baan Deva Montra, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Sticky rice and mangoes or building relationships
- The Larry Ellison Fix in Karachi…
- The best free entertainment in Singapore
- Red light zones in Dubai…
On Alchemy
- The Alchemy Story or How I became rude, mean and abusive
- My loverly (not a typo) team or the secret behind the spike in my posting frequency
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