Comments on: My Startup Story Series… Alchemy Associates http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/ Coffee Sessions for the Industry! Sat, 12 May 2012 08:39:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mohammed Mudassir Azeemi http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/comment-page-1/#comment-5228 Mohammed Mudassir Azeemi Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:14:11 +0000 http://greenwhite.org/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/#comment-5228 “I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” Thomas Jefferson quotes So the Luck is all about Hard-work, and persistence! “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” Thomas Jefferson quotes

So the Luck is all about Hard-work, and persistence!

]]> By: http://alchemya.com/wordpress2/2007/09/30/the-alchemy-story-redux/ http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/comment-page-1/#comment-4437 http://alchemya.com/wordpress2/2007/09/30/the-alchemy-story-redux/ Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:49:13 +0000 http://greenwhite.org/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/#comment-4437 Dear Guru It's the starbucks story. The vision from day one was to build an unconventional company where our team members should not have the same complaints and issue we had with our previous bosses. The product and technology background was a means to an end. Take everything that was right and could not be done in the Pakistani market and go ahead and do it. Weather it was flexi timing for working mothers, active support for continuing education, zero tolerance for not delivering value to a customer or tangible profit sharing with employees in the form of bonuses and above market average increments. We did it. As far as luck is/was concerned. I would rather be lucky than right. Yes hard work will take you so far but in professions and businesses that are scalable, building scale is a combination of so many complex factors. You would be an egomaniac to think that you did it just by yourself. I am sure there are individuals who have, but I certainly didn't. Do a google search on Nassim Taleb and Fooled by Randomness. He puts it much better that I can. Jawwad Dear Guru

It’s the starbucks story.

The vision from day one was to build an unconventional company where our team members should not have the same complaints and issue we had with our previous bosses. The product and technology background was a means to an end.

Take everything that was right and could not be done in the Pakistani market and go ahead and do it. Weather it was flexi timing for working mothers, active support for continuing education, zero tolerance for not delivering value to a customer or tangible profit sharing with employees in the form of bonuses and above market average increments. We did it.

As far as luck is/was concerned. I would rather be lucky than right. Yes hard work will take you so far but in professions and businesses that are scalable, building scale is a combination of so many complex factors. You would be an egomaniac to think that you did it just by yourself. I am sure there are individuals who have, but I certainly didn’t.

Do a google search on Nassim Taleb and Fooled by Randomness. He puts it much better that I can.

Jawwad

]]> By: Guru http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/comment-page-1/#comment-4435 Guru Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:13:55 +0000 http://greenwhite.org/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/#comment-4435 I think this is more of a 'it happened' success story. Luck played a major role in making this company a success, as the writer himself has claimed. I fail to see a vision or why the company was actually formed (or it's not told in this post), apart from the 'proving something to others' factor. Yes, luck does play its role, but should a new startup be left to the mercy of the 'luck' factor? I think this is more of a ‘it happened’ success story. Luck played a major role in making this company a success, as the writer himself has claimed.

I fail to see a vision or why the company was actually formed (or it’s not told in this post), apart from the ‘proving something to others’ factor.

Yes, luck does play its role, but should a new startup be left to the mercy of the ‘luck’ factor?

]]> By: Desi Back to desh » The Alchemy Story - redux http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/comment-page-1/#comment-4318 Desi Back to desh » The Alchemy Story - redux Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:47:22 +0000 http://greenwhite.org/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/#comment-4318 [...] day I come back and check out my favorite blogs, I find that we received great coverage first from Osama Hashmi at Green and White, then Jehan at her blog, and finally Babar Bhatti did a piece on the [...] [...] day I come back and check out my favorite blogs, I find that we received great coverage first from Osama Hashmi at Green and White, then Jehan at her blog, and finally Babar Bhatti did a piece on the [...]

]]> By: http://alchemya.com/wordpress2/2007/09/30/the-alchemy-story-redux/ http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/comment-page-1/#comment-4313 http://alchemya.com/wordpress2/2007/09/30/the-alchemy-story-redux/ Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:54:58 +0000 http://greenwhite.org/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/#comment-4313 [...] The day I come back and check out my favorite blogs, I find that we received great coverage first from Osama Hashmi at Green and White, then Jehan at her blog, and finally Babar Bhatti did a piece on the entrepreneurial [...] [...] The day I come back and check out my favorite blogs, I find that we received great coverage first from Osama Hashmi at Green and White, then Jehan at her blog, and finally Babar Bhatti did a piece on the entrepreneurial [...]

]]> By: Hussain http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/comment-page-1/#comment-4261 Hussain Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:56:21 +0000 http://greenwhite.org/2007/09/26/my-startup-story-series-alchemy-associates/#comment-4261 Truly inspiring!!! Truly inspiring!!!

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