Startup School – The funding mindset – capital and partners
4 mins read The fundamental mistake that sunk Avicena was the mindset that the only way to succeed and compete in this business
Frontier and Emerging Markets Enterprise Risk Management: A practical perspective
10 mins read Once upon a time in a different world, the profitability generated by regional banks in the union of city states known as the Emirates surpassed the combined profitability of the same banks in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
The year was 2006. I had just stepped into the treasury of one of the largest banks in the Middle East. The treasurer I was meeting was a referred lead. Our conversation started of pleasantly, but then I mentioned that I built and sold risk systems for a living
Tracking Correlations: Risk, Trailing correlations, correlation coefficients and Trading decisions
< 1 min read Agnes recently did a lot of work in putting together a short course on correlations from a risk and trading
VaR Historical Simulation Approach – EXCEL
5 mins read In this post on value at risk we will start off with a data series for the USD-EUR Foreign currency exchange rate and see what a tool like Value at Risk can tell us about both the likely as well as the worst case movement for this exchange rate.
Grading Entrepreneurial Jedi – May the force be with you…
3 mins read My first pitch in front of Ken Morse was a total disaster. The second was no better. The third was
Teaching Entrepreneurship online
5 mins read Can you teach Entrepreneurship online? Forget teaching, can you learn something about starting a business online?
The debate started when Jehan and I first started talking about doing a series similar to the work we have been doing with computational finance on Learning Corporate Finance. I ran a couple of trial videos but wasn’t happy with the results so killed the work we had done in March. Then April somehow became the month of speaking engagements – first for Microsoft/PASHA Catalyst, then NUST and TAN and finally the PASHA – CIPE Young ones round table this Monday morning.