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Think your university is doing the craziest tech work in the country? Prove it.
Some of our readers at Green & White have funded university-based startups or student projects in the past, so here’s what we’ll do.
You guys tell us about your project (use “Request Coverage” above), and we’ll add some perspective and cover it here with your contact info.
Then you tell us if you get connected.
I love what Qurtaba are doing in a niche area of Urdu Language. Although their start was from Nan-Map for which they now have an iPhone App.There love for Urdu language related apps has been flourishing in recent months. Most of their apps are doing very well on app store, some impressive numbers for their popular Urdu apps are as follows.
Urdu Writer: 10K downloads in 3 months – average 200 downloads…
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I happened to be in Quetta on a business trip last month with no idea of where to dine alone. Being a typical Lahoriite, a die-hard food lover, it matters to me that I try the best food of the place I visit. So this is where FCPakistan came to my rescue. I simply logged in, typed in my desired specifications and got atleast 5 suggestions.
The listing included their opening times, specific facilities like ease for physically disabled customers, credit card acceptance, smoking areas, take away facility, whether valet parking was available or not, and even directions to get there! What more could you want.
Although that was the…
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If you have any thing to do with entrepreneurship, its impossible you have not come across Jawwad Farid either in person or in virtual world of his blogs and judging different events realting to startups in Pakistan. He is also the author of Reboot which we reviewed a while back.
Jawwad has been writing on Finance, Risk and Treasury for some time now on learning corporate finance.
I guess that has lead to FourQuants.com. FourQuants helps people understand concepts related to finance. Following topics are mentioned in about us section of the website
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OLX is a global online retailer and auction site. They have an impressive footprint in a little less than 100 countries, each with their own specific domain (like .pk for Pakistan and .in for India).
In Pakistan they have been operating under olx.com.pk for some time with people using it to sell things online.
Recently they have started advertising heavily on Television, a medium seldom used by online businesses previously. The ads (two of which have appeared ) are witty and fun to watch.
The most important factor of these adds is that they are being advertised on media which previously none of our online businesses have used.
Most of…
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Round 1 of TiE is about to reach its completion on 22nd of Jan, 2012 at Marriott, Islamabad in which ten teams will participate. Four teams will be shortlisted for the level 2. I also had the opportunity to participate in TiE All Asia Business Plan Competition 2012 along with my team members in the first few stages of level 1. Although we didn’t have the chance to go beyond stage1 but just participating helped us understand our own idea better and to polish our proposed technique along with development of a solid business plan. TiE all Asia Business Plan Competition provides a platform for generation and development of new…
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TenPearls has announced the successful delivery of mobile apps for Dawn.com on multiple platforms, including Apple iOS (iPad and iPhone), Android and Symbian (Nokia). The mobile apps have received great feedback from the users from around the world. It may be worth mentioning here that DAWN.COM is the #1 English News website from Pakistan averaging over 16 million page views a month, and 3.1 million unique visitors from around the world.
More details can be accessed at mobile apps for Dawn Media Group by TenPearls.
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CIO Pakistan started blog awards last year. Its is a good sign when some one takes initiative and starts some thing new. However its also difficult to introduce this into an already budding field of new media in Pakistan. Last years (or two years back now since its 2012) Awards were initiated so as it is expected it faced initial growing up pains. It always takes time for such thing to wins the trust of the community. And bloggers are one of the most hard people to win over, most of these are rebels in their own rights people who have started blogging to show the world their opinion…
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Pakreport.org a tool which was instrumental in gathering statistics during the massive flooding in Pakistan, has created another study/stats gathering tool for our electoral activities. Interestingly its called do we vote
With political scene in Pakistan heating up it provides very valuable information to party supporters and their leaders. A quick look at it shows the all known facts that people in rural areas take their voting more seriously than all of us supposedly educated and enlightened urban population.
Pakreport.org was an initiative launched by Faisal Chohan of BrightSpyre during the floods, the effort enabled people on the ground to send sms (the most spread out communication medium in country)…
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This is a revelation that came to me when I recently quit my comfy corporate job for the second time. If you are below 40 and some one asks you about how is your job going and your answer is not in tune of “I like my job because I love the work”.
You need to pause and asses your career, last time I answered this question my answer was “I like the job, because the benefits are good”, and that made me think (offcourse there were other factors as well). But if you are doing a job in which to satisfy your own self you have to look at…
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7:28 pm
Somehow, I get the feeling that the folks at Green & White feel that they are ultra-smart, highly-educated and well-linked guys while the rest of the world is very dumb and needs guidance every once in a while.
I wonder what the last line—Then you tell is if you get connected—means!
I would be a very happy reader if Green & White’s focus is more towards real world stories and discussion on them by CEO’s and the high-ups.
7:35 pm
Not to be too harsh or anything. I like some parts of what Green&White has been doing, but I do agree with Jaywalker. You guys should focus on what existing companies are doing rather. I doubt that anyone who thinks they have a “killer project” will share it here.. lets talk about what these universities are offering and how can they improve, lets talk about how startups are functioning, how established companies are functioning, this will help future startups to organize better, learn from others mistakes and make better decisions.
7:47 pm
Ah Jaywalker you’re right… so let me give some guidance here! kidding.
Here’s the deal – you guys are forgetting that most successful startups begin as good university-based projects that grow into companies — a certain company with two G’s and an OO in the middle comes to mind.
There are people that I know read Green & White who’ve offered upwards of $100k to university based killer projects – that’s funding that most good startups would kill for here.
I’m not asking for your average MIS system – I want to get those guys funded — read: “connected with funders”.
If you guys dont know of any, be patient! We’ll come to you when the investors are ready to come to you (i.e. when you can demonstrate a successful prototype that you dont abandon after showing it off initially).
Another tip: Dont think that just showing a small demo and going into hiding is going to get you funding or support – building traction and trying to scale out might. Proving that you can make money will.
If you guys have any recent customer successes to share from your products feel free and we’ll highlight them.
In the meantime, let other people who deserve the funds, get the funds, eh?
12:20 am
Osama: You mention in the post “Some of our readers at Green & White have funded university-based startups or student projects in the past”.. i personally haven’t seen any mention of such companies in your blog (and i have been following your blog for a while now).. it will be great if you can highlight these companies and what they do.. i am excited to see Pakistan grow and would love to know about these companies and others.
No one said that your idea was bad, the suggestion was to focus more on what the current startup and other mature-companies are doing in Pakistan and maybe highlight their achievements and failures..
3:10 pm
Yes Obaid I haven’t mentioned them, because they have not wanted coverage yet.
There is a lot of angel activity in this country but most of it is still very hush hush.
7:22 pm
Yes the angel investment scene is really big (at least that’s what i have been experiencing so far) .. hopefully i will have some good news to share with you by early next year