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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

Both Sides of the Table

They’re easily impressed when you’re selected for TechCrunch50 but not easily engaged in a detailed discussion about your conversion metrics. In the need to seem smart they divert the board conversation into something that isn’t on the company’s critical path or isn’t of strategic substance.

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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

Both Sides of the Table

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But the conversation rang very true for me.

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What living in different countries has taught me about life (and work)

Austin Startup

You must be able to speak to a client’s language, whether it is breaking a technical conversation into layman’s terms or on the other hand, using examples to showcase your knowledge of the space. The one thing I’ve learned about Pakistan is that family name carries a lot of weight because of our unique culture.

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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

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Interestingly if you add up the Muslims from Pakistan (176 million) and the Muslins from India (167 million) you have a population the size of the entire United States. Ansari also takes up the topic of a young African American woman growing up as a lesbian in our society and the family conversations and struggles that go with coming out.

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Why It’s Time for Les Moonves to Go — You Can’t Charm Your Way out of Sexual Misconduct

Both Sides of the Table

It documents his career in the Obama administration working under Richard Hoolbrook on diplomacy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and under Secretary Clinton in the State Department. He outlines the decline of diplomacy in favor of military-to-military solutions to global problems and the consequences that arise.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. million jobs.

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Exploring The Everyday: Better Meat For a Better Future

View from Seed

I served in Pakistan and Australia. The challenge is very similar to conventional animal agriculture, where farmers often think about how much their feed costs and the conversion rate of that feed to meat. And I think the way that this is done is through honest conversations with people about how we’re making our products.