Nowfal Ebrahim on July 1st, 2009

snow lights. Testing the 2twitter api from flickr http://flic.kr/p/5Ld3ai

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Nowfal Ebrahim on April 30th, 2009

There are some old sayings
“It doesn’t matter if you fall, it’s whether you get back up”, another one
“The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall”….
To be honest, in the run to be the first to get money out of investors, there is no chance to fall. If you fall [...]

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A perfect pitch, so here in short as a startup or a pitcher. You have a good and great pitch, you have won half your battle. You got it in you, you can make it.

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Nowfal Ebrahim on March 20th, 2009

I always wonder what to do with facebook and twitter. Not that I dont use them, I know what I use twitter for, but for some insane reason, lately facebook is becoming more like twitter. You can post updates, move with time and life. I need to draw a line between both of them on [...]

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Nowfal Ebrahim on March 8th, 2009

Its quite funny an experience I have had today. Meeting up with one of our investors gave us more insight into the world of money.
All these guys, money guys had lots of money, virtual money. Guess what they have today, money which is really virtual. How true.

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The mother of all inventions is not first time ideas, part of it is also reinvention.
Do you think the iPod was invented, wrong – mp3 players existed. Apple took the idea created something everyone fell in love with. Do you think touch screen phones did not exist, wrong – the first touchscreens were PocketPC by [...]

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on February 26th, 2009

A wall street journal article today, “money managers lived large on fraud”, is this news, the world knows who is to be blamed, wake up…

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Nowfal Ebrahim on February 25th, 2009

For all those futureman’s – great job guys, we will always have the nuts in the mix. I do not know who to give credit for this picture, was pulled from a tinypic url.

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Nowfal Ebrahim on February 25th, 2009

Always start with one investor, make an impression. Try out all that you have up your sleeve in your pitch. Any defects you have on this pitch will immediately be seen and reflected by the investor. From here on, improve your pitch defects and start your presentations to other investors.

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on February 20th, 2009

Going a startup all alone, get ready for an uphill task. Investors stay away from one man team shows. So a good team wins, that’s what it is

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