Talk given by myself @ GDG CiSTech Karachi in NEDUET. The objective of this talk was to introduce and enhance the understanding of technology entrepreneurship and was tailored for an audience made up of students. The slides are fairly simplistic and were only meant for guiding the flow of the conversation rather than restrict it.

1. the quest
the journey from a student to a
technopreneur
syed shoaib ahsan
snr software gujjar
nexdegree private limited

2. people who have traveled this path before you

3. why?
“he who has a why to live can bear almost any how”
friedrich nietzsche

4. why?
lets talk about the negatives first, i.e.
why not

5. why?

6. why not?
salary

7. why not?
benefits

8. why not?
work schedule

9. why not?
administration

10. why not?
risk

11. why?
job security

12. why?
freedom

13. why?
flexibility

14. why?
impact

15. why?
risk

16. how?
“
some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream
things that never were and ask why not?
”
george bernard shaw

17. how?
identify a problem

18. how?
come up with a solution

19. how?
refine the solution

20. how?
build – measure – learn

21. how?
repeat

22. how?
timing

23. how?
deliver value

24. failure
“we have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
rudyard kipling

25. failure
embrace it

26. failure
learn from them

27. get in touch
syed.shoaib.ahsan@gmail.com
facebook.com/shoaibahsan
pk.linkedin.com/in/syedshoaibahsan

28. resources
- p@sha (http://pasha.org.pk)
- open karachi (http://www.openkarachi.org)
- dotzero (http://www.dotzero.pk)
- tie karachi (https://karachi.tie.org/)