Art, Build Community, Inspiring Stories, learning, Life etc, marketing, Pencil and Paint, Profession, Starta
Kelli Anderson is an artist. She gave this TEDx talk and right at the beginning, she tells the audience what is the purpose of her work: People arrive at experiences with expectations. And when we make things we are actively choosing what to do with those...
Business, Business Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Inspiring Stories, learning, Life etc, Lifestyle, Newsletter Archive, pakistan, Profession, ProHobbyist, Starta
The following is taken from the Milk Distribution Case Study, a detailed breakdown of how one can start their own small milk brand. Read more about that here. +++ 200 kilometers away from home, my Mehran parked under the shade, I watch as the tractor pulled away. The...
Build Community, Business, Inspiring Stories, Interviews, Life etc, Lifestyle, Newsletter Archive, pakistan, People, Pro Blogging, Science, Society
Tell me if you know someone like this: doesn’t work that much, just enough. But the “higher ups” are friends with him, they like him. He gets the promotion. Or you know a hard-worker, who does great work, but he doesn’t know the “right people”, so no one...
Art, career, Inspiring Stories, Life etc, Newsletter Archive, People, Pro Blogging, Profession, ProHobbyist, Self, Travel
I recently had a discussion with Yasir Nisar over a cup of warm tea and hot samosas. Yes, tea and samosa. Yasir is a professional photographer here in Pakistan. His pictures can sell upwards of 50,000 rupees each. Each. His calendar for the next few months, by his own...
Inspiring Stories, Newsletter Archive, People, Self, Society
I had just arrived in Islamabad via Daewoo, and the old friend who came to pick me up was having car trouble. The car’s headlights were just not functioning, and it was getting dark. We assumed the problem to be the simplest: a fuse had shorted and a simple...
Books, Business Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Helpers, Inspiring Stories, Newsletter Archive, People, Reviews, Self
I am re-re-re-reading The Lean Startup as I am preparing a workshop on business growth. I noticed the Acknowledgments section which I had of course seen before, but haven’t read read it. Then I took out my pen and listed the people Eric Ries acknowledges. About...
