Escaping the Corporate Vox 2009-02-23T13:44:26Z Azeem Zainulbhai http://azainulbhai.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cd96fc07c04cd5/ Seriously, It's happening Moving to a New Site . . . . escapingthecorporate.blogspot.com tag:vox.com,2009-02-23:asset-6a00cd96fc07c04cd50110180ac6ff860f 2009-02-23T13:44:26Z 2009-02-23T13:44:26Z Azeem Zainulbhai http://azainulbhai.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Editing off of the blogspot site is much easier then the Vox site. Sorry Vox! Please come read me at my new site . . .

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]]> Leaving the Corporate - Part Deux; or, How to exit Private Equity tag:vox.com,2009-02-02:asset-6a00cd96fc07c04cd5011017a6658f860e 2009-02-02T16:48:58Z 2009-02-02T16:48:58Z Azeem Zainulbhai http://azainulbhai.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom After a two year hiatus I’m back! My initial dream of escaping the corporate didn’t happen according to plan. The “telecom services” startup actually got started but I did something unfortunately a lot more corporate at the same time. We la...

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]]> Tyranny of the Minority tag:vox.com,2006-12-04:asset-6a00cd96fc07c04cd500cdf7ea1dd5094f 2006-12-04T06:54:43Z 2006-12-04T06:54:43Z Azeem Zainulbhai http://azainulbhai.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Grand slam for free market capitalism. Whenever one group of people finds an arbitrage opportunity to make a lot of money, another group of people will inevitably claim that the gains are ill-gotten or achieved through malintent. How many times...

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]]> Can we Get the Ball Rolling? tag:vox.com,2006-12-01:asset-6a00cd96fc07c04cd500cd978bc898f9cc 2006-12-01T12:08:55Z 2006-12-01T12:08:55Z Azeem Zainulbhai http://azainulbhai.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom We continue the long, slow, and circuitous route of trying to start this venture. Coming from a banking background, the most frustrating part is that we have not ground out the details. I understand what the overall vision of the Company is (th...

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]]> Maintaining Innovation tag:vox.com,2006-12-01:asset-6a00cd96fc07c04cd500cd9700ebac4cd5 2006-12-01T12:01:24Z 2006-12-01T12:01:26Z Azeem Zainulbhai http://azainulbhai.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom A little background on what we are trying to do. Initially the concept, as I understood it, was to license a piece of software that had been developed in the U.S. for exclusive resale in India. With that in mind we would basically be a sales an...

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]]> Back At It tag:vox.com,2006-12-01:asset-6a00cd96fc07c04cd500cd978bc807f9cc 2006-12-01T11:54:06Z 2006-12-01T11:55:49Z Azeem Zainulbhai http://azainulbhai.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Finding the time to write is tough. . . . buuuut, now that I’m unemployed that may change – may because I’m kind of a, you know, procrastinator. The plunge has been taken and I just walked out of my extremely fancy offices in Nariman Point for ...

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]]> Escaping the Corporate tag:vox.com,2006-11-15:asset-6a00cd96fc07c04cd500cd96fc0a764cd5 2006-11-15T10:07:54Z 2006-12-13T21:27:01Z Azeem Zainulbhai http://azainulbhai.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom "I Quit!" I wish it could have been as dramatic as that, but it went off more smoothly. I think it is only because Investment Banks realize that maintaining an alumni network will win them goodwill and business. Unlike NYC, of course, where le...

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