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Why Investors Avoid Cutting-Edge, University-Born Innovation

There’s no doubt that some of our most valuable innovations started in university settings. However, in my experience, many game-changing innovations never make it to market, even if the science supporting them is strong. Here’s what I’ve been seeing. University

Arshad March 5, 2020 Fundraising & Equity Read more

Why Tech Startups May Be A Safe Haven For Investments, Even Amidst A Pandemic

Following a 9-year uninterrupted bull run, the stock market faces a major correction caused by COVID-19 prevention measures and panic. With markets falling, is investing in startups sane? Living and working in Hong Kong, I’ve had a front-row seat to

Arshad February 28, 2020 Fundraising & Equity, Strategy Read more

Why We’re Not Leaving Hong Kong Amidst the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus Outbreak

Why We’re Not Leaving Hong Kong Amidst the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus Outbreak

At the time of this writing, the Novel Coronavirus outbreak is still in its early days and could soon become a global pandemic. Its exponential growth continues in China and has now spread to 28 countries. It can be transmitted

Arshad February 5, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

Drought: Anticipating A Parched Future

Drought: Anticipating A Parched Future

In May, 2019 a close family friend who I’ll call Auntie N (to protect her privacy), was, in her beautiful Connecticut home, deeply distraught. “Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani” (that’s what Wikipedia calls it) had just struck Odisha, India, where her

Arshad January 29, 2020 Climate Adaptation, Environment, Predictions Read more

New Decade, New Domain Name

When I first launched this blog in July 2010 (with a post on the value of a plan), I used my full name because I wanted to control what people saw first when they googled my name. A search for

Arshad January 23, 2020 My Projects Read more

What Are Unit Economics?

Unit economics are the direct revenues and costs associated with a business on a per-unit basis. The unit economics of a shirt, for a fashion company, for example, relate to the all the costs of making it, the costs of

Arshad January 23, 2020 Best Practices, Strategy Read more

Notes from Dhaka: Bad Air

Notes from Dhaka: Bad Air

Air pollution has now been a daily fact of life in Asia for over 20 years, with a permanent brown-tinted haze doming entire cities and blotting out blue skies and sunshine on most days. My frequent travel to Dhaka gives me

Arshad January 20, 2020 Climate Adaptation, Environment Read more

How You Can Build A Smarter Team In 2 Days

How You Can Build A Smarter Team In 2 Days

Some teams are better at decision-making than others, and groups of smart people are just as capable of making bad decisions as groups of less smart people. But what drives those differences has been a mystery until the relatively recent

Arshad May 16, 2019 Best Practices, Culture, My Projects Read more

Earth Is Burning And You’re Working On What?

Earth Is Burning And You’re Working On What?

The Paris Climate Agreement aimed to avoid a “catastrophic” 2ºC increase in global temperatures. We have just a decade left to cut current carbon emissions by half, and unfortunately we are nowhere near achieving this goal.  Here’s what happens if we

Arshad April 26, 2019 Climate Adaptation, Environment, Predictions Read more

How CEOs Can Create Instability & Anxiety

The most common challenge for a startup CEO is to stay focused. This is especially true in early days, before a company has found product-market fit, when the CEO expresses insecurities about their business with endless experimentation. More moving parts

Arshad October 8, 2018 Best Practices Read more
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