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Day 20: Interview Jet Early Learnings

Early-stage companies often raise money in a seed round for the sole purpose of figuring out if their business will scale to something big. If, before the money runs out, they think the business scales, they then raise more money

Arshad October 2, 2012 My Projects No Comments Read more

$100,000 & 100 Days

We closed our last venture, ClearGears, with $100k in the bank and a very low burn rate. We could have closed the company and returned the remaining money to investors. I decided to keep the team together because we have

Arshad September 12, 2012 Failing, My Projects 2 Comments Read more

Why We’re Closing ClearGears

Over the past decade, I’ve been on a mission to improve life at work. Many of my solutions are experimental and weird (MetroNaps, for example), so I expect my failures to outnumber my successes. It’s therefore vitally important for my

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10 Products In One Year

This has been a great year for my wife Anika and me. We’re iterating super fast on products and projects to learn more each day. So far this year we’ve already built: ClearGears – a totally new redesign. RollCallMe –

Arshad May 2, 2012 My Projects 2 Comments Read more

My Formula For Building Fast

I just built another project from concept to launch within one week, and I’m starting to hit on a repeatable formula for the non-technical CEO to use. In this post I’ll describe the project, and then share a dialog I

Arshad April 11, 2012 Best Practices, Culture, My Projects 4 Comments Read more

How I Built a Business in a Weekend

RollCallMe.com RollCallMe.com makes it easy to collect the contact info from everyone in the room, fast, by text message. It replaces sign-up sheets and business cards at the same time. The website looks gorgeous, the system works smoothly with all

Arshad March 12, 2012 My Projects 13 Comments Read more

So Long Suyash

I’m extremely lucky to have met and hired Suyash Ramineni. He’s wildly qualified: he has a BS and Masters in Computer Science, is co-authoring on a book on the Linux Kernel, codes in six languages, and is a very nice

Arshad November 22, 2011 Culture, My Projects 1 Comment Read more

The Value of a Plan

If You Don’t Have Your Own Plan, You’ll Become Part Of Someone Else’s. My first job after college was as an Analyst at Deutsche Bank in New York City in 1998. The stock market was at its peak, banks were

Arshad July 6, 2010 My Projects, Strategy No Comments Read more
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