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Khurram Zafar is currently the Executive Director of the LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship. Prior roles include CIO at Lahore Stock Exchange and founding board member of Plan9 and innovation fellow at the Pakistan Innovation Foundation.

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Promising Pakistani Startups

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The most promising Pakistani startups are gaining a global footprint in terms of funding and customers.     Appography is transforming the way customers interact with call...
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Technology Business Valuations – A Hurdle to VC Deals in Developing Markets of Asia

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Ask prospective investors in Pakistan or Bangladesh for a $200K investment at $800K pre-money valuation and see the jaws drop. Most investors will question...
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The Next Startup Nation: Pakistan?

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Recently dubbed ‘the next big thing’ in Asia with restored investor confidence, favourable conditions for private sector growth and a plethora of talented engineers,...
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How Quantum Supremacy will Impact the Public Relations Industry

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What is this quantum supremacy thing? Some have already seen the headlines; a Google paper leaked that their research team...
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AirPods Are A Powerful Symbol of Our Unsustainable Economy

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A tweet last month by Midas Kwant about Apple’s AirPods did a napkin analysis of the earphones’ profitability: if instead of being launched by Apple in 2016, they...
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How to Build a Personal Brand

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Looking to evolve your personal brand? With the internet, we all have the tools we need to build...
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Critical Mass in Social Media – How Many Followers Do You Really Need?

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How many followers is good enough? Everyone wants more followers in social media. Businesses, too. At the same time,...
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How I Used Machine Learning to Predict Football Games for 24 Months Straight

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Can machine learning make you rich from sports betting? Two years ago, I asked myself if it would...
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What the Online Grocery Wars Really Mean?

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The online grocery wars are heating up and the stakes are far bigger than any battle between Amazon and Walmart. The real...
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The Rise and Fall of Tech Companies

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Over the years since its creation in 2007, Glassdoor, the site that allows employees of companies in the United States to anonymously provide...
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How Quantum Supremacy will Impact the Public Relations Industry

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What is this quantum supremacy thing? Some have already seen the headlines; a Google paper leaked that their research team...
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Cryptocurrencies: Let’s Not Gamble on Their Future

Tether, the cryptocurrency I researched a couple of months ago, has overtaken bitcoin in monthly transactions by more than 18%, making it the most...
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The Business Model for Content Startups

A business model helps to clarify a company’s main purpose, such as who they’re serving, how they help, and how the company can sustain...
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Saket Singhi, President of Quick eSelling Inc.

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Saket Singhi, a serial entrepreneur, has 17 years of experience in successfully incubating and building new teams and ventures.
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Ina Bajaj, Owner of Spring Spa

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A trip to Bali in 2003 prompted Ina Bajaj to buy land, build a home and later build a successful spa business....
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Eleanor Yap, Founder of Ageless Online

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An advocate for seniors, Eleanor Yap, wants to make her future and others around her better. What's your story?...
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Delphine Lefay, Co-Founder & CEO of OnTheList

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Delphine and Diego noticed a lack of options for brands looking to dispose of excess stock and with that they started OnTheList,...
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Carla Snajder Naisbitt, Owner of Carla Personal Styling

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Carla Snajder, an image consultant, brings personalized shopping and styling experiences to clients in Hong Kong and Singapore. What's...

Bryan Koh, Executive Producer of Graphiss Media

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For Bryan Koh what started off as a hobby, a one-man show has grown into a successful video production company with a...

Damien, Founder of Denzy Gelato

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What's your story?Cooking has always been my escape. I used to work as a recruiter and when I was stressed out chasing...

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Natalia Segura’s true love for photography and the demand from private clients motivated her to start her own business focusing on wedding photography. What's your...
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Edmund Ser, founder of EDMUND SER

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Rice Bowl Startup Awards 2015

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What China’s Stock Market Crash mean for Startups

The China stock market downturn and currency changes have started to impact the global market. With 50+ startups in my firm’s global portfolio and...
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Women on Top in Tech – Angela Margaret Solomon, Founder/CEO at Jaleesa & Director at Angela M. Solomon Communications.

(Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the...
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Reversing the Lies of the Sharing Economy

There’s nothing resembling a “sharing economy” in an Uber interaction. You pay a corporation to send a driver to you, and it pays that...
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Big Data Science in 5 Minutes

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There is no doubt that data is behind of any successful company. Data have been around for decades. Companies...
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The Startup Odds of Raising V.C. Investment

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We offer terms to 0.2% of the opportunities we see. The chances of raising VC investment are far lower than getting into that high...
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7 Clever Online Marketing Strategies

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Marketing a start-up is an important and crucial part of building a business. Much of the popularity of the start-ups doing great business today...
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Overcoming Depression The Startup Way

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Depression sucks ass. J.K. Rowling’s dementors are the only way I’ve seen depression described that really demonstrated how it feels. Now — if only there was...
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The Rise and Fall of Tech Companies

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What Everybody Should Know About Building Great Apps

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The mobile app development market is slowly getting crowded with start ups and also big IT companies. As in every other industry, there are...
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