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Investing in Pakistan's IT Businesses:
Opportunities & Challenges

Altaf Khan

© Altaf Khan 2005-2006
 
Summary

IT sector is heating up and is attracting huge investments. If you are interested in making an investment, you first need to pick the right sub-sector that meets your individual needs. This presentation offers a simple framework that can be used to make such decisions.
   
 
Internet has catalyzed a huge, world-wide demand for IT products & services. Stories of individuals making immense wealth quickly, has caught the imagination of the masses. Limited-supply, huge-demand for IT pros has made it the hottest profession. Underdeveloped countries see it as a quick fix for their decades-old miseries. All these factors have made IT as one of the hottest investment sectors.

Fabulous fables of Silicon Valley VCs, entrepreneurs and possibility of early, huge returns is catalyzing the investment process. This trend is destined to continue as the large IT market is growing at a fast clip. due to the two factors: All businesses now require IT products and services to improve profitability; Internet makes it easier to address the global market.

If you are interested in making an investment, you first need to pick the right sub-sector that meets your individual needs. This presentation offers a framework that can be used to make such decisions. This framework is a vocabulary, describing objectives and constraints of investment opportunities. Elements of this vocabulary act as a committee of critics, each member trying to influence the outcome in an individualistic and selfish manner. An opportunity is selected if it satisfies most of the critics in the investor's committee to a reasonable degree, without overly upsetting the remaining ones. For further explanation, take a look at the presentation:

A. H. Khan. Investing in Pakistan's IT Businesses: Opportunities & Challenges PPT. Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Lahore, Pakistan, February 2001.

 

 
    

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