Startup

The Death of Yahoo

3 mins read It’s been a week since launch.  I have more war stories to tell. The most interesting one deals with Yahoo

Startup School: It's that time of the year again. Lets launch a business in January

6 mins read Three calls and an email and we have a contract. Twenty days later we have an app.  I understand how Pepper does what it does; 5 top black berry applications in as many years.  We work together to get them their and our first winner on the iphone and the android market place.

Forty Five days in total and we have a business that is generating cash. Not as much as we needed, but still cash.

Checking in from Bangkok. The Fourquants.com and FTC marketing tour of Thailand.

5 mins read We first spoke about it in November when I had stopped over in Bangkok for a day to spend some time with Somkiat and given a short brief of what we are. We then exchanged a few emails and then had a kick off session for the next three days as soon as I landed. Within the next 6 hours based on our discussion Somkiat had managed to lock in almost every thing that we had wanted to get out of the Bangkok trip. We worked 12 hours for 3 straight days, spent a lot of time on the road in Bangkok, evenings enjoying Thai cuisine

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

3 mins read The pitching for startup series used with my students at the SP Jain Inst. of Management and Research in Dubai, for the P@SHA delegation at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards in Thailand and the P@SHA Social Innovation Fund Grant competition is now available for free.

Full disclosure. No I did not make 10’s of millions of dollars in a heartbeat by following this method. Neither will you. Like me, you will most likely fail a few times despite the fact that you memorized the pitching tools and techniques mentioned here. But that’s all right, success has always been over rated.. 🙂