Jawwad Farid

Jawwad Farid

Serial Has been.
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Serial has been and also ran. If at first you don't succeed, blow up again. Making, building, shipping since '91. Now write, mentor, teach and experiment with fastest ways of losing large amounts of cash without gambling, banking, trading, alcohol or wheels. Startups: Ed-Tech 1999. Risk-Tech 2003 - 2022. Incubators 2014-2023. A product focused personal history? Neural networks and microcode simulators in C, on AIX, '91. dBase Clipper '92. Back office systems '93. Delphi '95. Online Ed '99. B2B Exchanges '00. Insure-Tech '01 / '21. Treasury '03. Reg-Tech '04. Wiped out '08. Wiped out redux '12. Exit '13. Earnout '16. Empty Nester '22. Professor of Practice '23. Bragging rights. From a wheelchair to two half marathons in 37 months at age 46. 5 books, 4 continents, 1 cross border exit.

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Jawwad Farid

5yr ago

Founder Puzzles, Revised Edition - Building better financial models for founders

In the end financials models we build for our startups represent the journey's we seek. What do you seek?
A serial founder deconstructs the logic behind numbers required to make a business work for fellow founders and startups.
Jawwad Farid

1yr ago

Reboot. 3rd Edition. A founder story. - A time capsule from 1999. From the days of BSoD

Writers write, sprinters sprint, founders fail. Failure is our most common outcome as builders. In 2001, in the days of Blue Screen of Death, I ran into a personalized edition of the screen. Reboot is my story.
Jawwad Farid

1yr ago

Craft. Ideas are easy, products hard. - The search for great products

In search of the X factor that makes products great. Process? Mindset? Both? A look through nuances of personas, segment and feature selection, trials, conversions, validation, traction, scale and product market fit. From one builder to another.
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