Chicago. Windy city, where the river meets the lake; Keeanu Reeves and Chain reaction. This April the location for Society of Actuaries, CAS & PRMIA’s join Enterprise Risk Management Symposium.Two and a half days of catching up with old friends and new and some very interesting lunch conversations. More to follow but for now [...]
Once upon a time in a galaxy far away, the search was on for a cure for blues. Turned into a global catastrophe, the blues sapped productivty & smiles everywhere you looked. Spending decades scouring the universe for an antidote, a depressed nation of aliens discovered that happiness comes in four flavours. And they [...]
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 [...]
Missed you Fawzia. Wish you were here.
It’s a reunion we had planned forever.While I made many good friends at Columbia, four were very special. Ken Uesugi who went back to Tokoyo to work for Lands End. Qamar Bakrin who now rules the Private Equity world in West Africa. Arno, my friend from the banking world and Ken Bates, the wisest of [...]
I had always wondered what it would feel like to be shot by the remarkable Zaka Shafiq.Zaka is a Columbia Business School Class of 2013 candidate who is really handy with a lens. We have all seen his work over the last two years as he documented his business school education through his camera lens.This [...]
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 [...]
Ever wondered what it feels to go through the failure of your startup? How do entrepreneur deal with it? Was it really as bad as you thought it would be?Come see my short lecture Columbia Business School this evening (16th April) and at the OPEN fireside chat on Thursday (18th April) in DC.Format is [...]