http://www.obaidahmed.com Pakistan, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Food and more... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:42:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5dcdb41fe2216800f9e9d8980585c425?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536 http://www.obaidahmed.com The day is finally here. This morning our first internal application is out in public. Champions is a cricket application that gives you the power to get up-to-date game information quickly and easily. Our aim was to provide easy to use interface... Read more

]]> http://www.obaidahmed.com/2010/03/05/our-first-iphone-application-champions/ While browsing through my online news-feed I stumbled upon this statement and it just struck with me. I just had to write a blog post around it. I truly believe that the statement is extremely true for what it says. You are responsible for your own... Read more

]]> http://www.obaidahmed.com/2010/02/12/you-are-responsible-for-your-own-experience/ I have been using iPhone since the first one came out. I have been following cricket since I can remember. Naturally when I got my iPhone I was excited to follow my cricket from anywhere, anytime. Cricinfo has been the leader (and the only website)... Read more

]]> http://www.obaidahmed.com/2010/02/08/cricinfo-iphone-application-review/ Sorry for the lack of updates on the blog. I have been super busy since last month. I am excited about our upcoming projects. I will be posting about these projects on my blog soon, hopefully after we start to launch some of these... Read more

]]> http://www.obaidahmed.com/2010/02/01/whats-happening/ I have been meaning to write this post for a while now. Last year in November, I was in Pakistan for my quick tour through Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. I had posted about this on my blog and on my twitter account and made an open invitation for... Read more

]]> http://www.obaidahmed.com/2010/01/05/trip-to-pakistan-part-1/ Those of you who follow my twitter feed would have known that on Nov 28 my father passed away. I had planned to write a lot of blog posts about my recent trip to Pakistan where I met a lot of people. But on Nov 28, the time just froze. Literally... Read more

]]> http://www.obaidahmed.com/2009/12/09/the-day-the-time-stood-still/ People who think their startup's success is going to follow from their immensely valuable secret idea are disproportionately likely to have bad ideas. Paul Graham -... Read more

]]> http://www.obaidahmed.com/2009/10/29/ideas-are-over-rated/ are little ideas that no one killed too... Read more

]]> http://www.obaidahmed.com/2009/10/29/big-ideas/ It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and... Read more

]]> http://www.obaidahmed.com/2009/10/26/it-is-not-the-critic-who-counts/ Check this out... Something is freakishly wrong with the marketing department at Microsoft. It is very similar to an Apple store. Why would they do this? This is a disaster for... Read more

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