Jawwad Ahmed Farid conducted a workshop on New Venture Failure on the Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA) platform on 12th May 2006. The workshop was well attended by industry professionals, entrepreneurs and students. If you would like to organize a workshop in your organization, contact Jawwad.

Read the agenda of the workshop and the speaker profile here.

Following is a review of the workshop by Ms. Jehan Ara, the President of PASHA:

Just to let you know that we had the New Venture Failures workshop at the Karachi Marriott yesterday. It was a 3 hour session facilitated by Jawwad Ahmed Farid. Also on the panel were Yusuf Jan Mixit and Muhammad Sabzwari of Si3.

There were just under 30 participants. These included middle and senior managers from P@SHA member companies. There were also participants from some of our customer base as well as some business students. To keep us there, Jawwad had provided loads of chocolates and biscuits in cute little baskets. The hi-tea was served through the middle of the session.

The main event, however, was the workshop. The content of the workshop was nothing that one could learn from any single business or management book. It was a combination of insights and experiences of an entrepreneur who had been to hell and back, who had drowned and re-surfaced, who had borrowed from every possible source and invested everything into ventures that had failed.

It was riveting! The workshop attendees participated fully and a lot of ideas and opinions and suggestions came out of 3 hours of intense interaction. Thanks Jawwad - haven't felt this alive in a long time. The brain was totally engaged.

Thanks also to Yusuf Jan and Muhammad Sabzwari for livening up the proceedings further.

Attention Lahoris:
Some of you have expressed an interest in this workshop being conducted in Lahore. I have convinced Jawwad to conduct it around June 17. Will sort out the exact date, time and venue and post it next week. I will also be calling a couple of CEOs in Lahore to be part of the panel so watch out!

Best regards,

Jehan