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		<title>Entrepreneurs can think big but thrive on small stage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 17th January 2011.
The question of whether entrepreneurial skills can be taught in college has vexed many a brilliant academic. 
Peter Thiel, who co-founded PayPal, certainly doesn&#8217;t prescribe to the learning at college route for entrepreneurs. Last November he launched a programme where he pledged US$100,000 (Dh367,300) each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Threat to internet neutrality imperils freedom of choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 3rd January 2011.
Information technology often brings together innovative hobbyists seeking &#8220;to do some good&#8221;. Over a period of time their labours of love create new industry elements the rest of us consume. The technology migrates from accessible free channels created by entrepreneurs to tightly controlled ones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quality of life means more than the bottom line ever will</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 27th December 2010.
It&#8217;s that time of year again, the end of the Gregorian calendar. It&#8217;s when executives calculate their expected bonuses. Companies tot up their end-of-year financials and congratulate themselves on how well they have done. And people at a personal level set new-year resolutions, such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep in the ocean, internet networks hang by a thread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 20th December 2010.
Anyone who has read of the adventures of Captain Nemo in Jules Verne&#8217;s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, can only have been left with a sense of wonderment as to the mysteries of the deep. The journey to an incredible underwater forest, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A moral compass to navigate the corporate ladder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 13th December 2010.
The road to senior management is littered with landmines concerning business ethics. Well, it is if you speak to academics teaching MBA courses at business schools. It is not if you ask most of the students, who really could not care less. 
The reality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India can still prove to be a bridge too far for businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 22nd November 2010.
Sometimes customers are crying out for your products and services but the barriers to serving those customers are just too difficult to overcome, so companies don&#8217;t bother.  My parents&#8217; home town is one such place. 
Over the past week I&#8217;ve been travelling in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking big in business &#8211; but not losing sight of the personal touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 15th November 2010.
One of the pleasures of dealing with a small entrepreneurial business is the energy and enthusiasm that one encounters, particularly from its founders. 
The passion on display and the work ethic they maintain is often missing at larger, more staid organisations. Among the challenges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big business needs to be nimble and stay on its toes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 8th November 2010.
It is often said small organisations are more innovative. Yet to bring about significant change, large organisations must also innovate. 
The trouble, as the US President Barack Obama found out last week at the American mid-term elections, is if you try to innovate on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple taste soured by lobby group&#8217;s worker abuse report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 1st November 2010.
If you are an aficionado of Apple computers, then is this a great time or what? 
Loyal customers have witnessed the launch of eye-popping consumer and crossover business products such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Private and institutional investors in Apple have seen the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born to be wild, but a little bit of random promotion helps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 25th October 2010.
You see a middle-aged guy cruising on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle down Jumeirah Beach Road on a weekend and what&#8217;s your first impression? 
You wouldn&#8217;t be wrong if you thought he was a forty-something successful corporate type. The bike&#8217;s mythology today belongs to these well-to-do, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assimilation of enterprise may leave little to cling on to</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 18th October 2010.
The lore of Star Trek postulates the existence in space of an Alpha quadrant, home to the United Federation of Planets &#8211; called simply &#8220;the Federation&#8221;.  There is also, among three others, a Delta quadrant dominated by villainous cybernetic humanoid drones, the Borg, whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building innovation may be a foundation for Dubai landlords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 11th October 2010.
It is estimated that about 30 per cent of all energy used in commercial buildings is wasted, partly as a result of the materials used in construction. 
The buildings materials industry is not one that immediately springs to mind when we think about innovation. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehankhan.com/building-innovation-may-be-a-foundation-for-dubai-landlords/</link>
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		<title>Social values yield a different kind of return on investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 6th October 2010.
Love, beauty, honour, truth, justice. Aren&#8217;t these some of the core values that we aspire to attain at times in our lives? They are universal beliefs that tie us together which we, as parents, wish to impart upon our children. 
These values transcend geographic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incubators should be run by those with drive and daring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 4th October 2010.
Thousands of business incubators have been set up around the world, mainly by governments and universities, which is probably one reason that they do not succeed in creating viable entrepreneurial businesses. 
At least half of the incubators have traditionally been in the US, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed approach is right way to merge best of both worlds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 27th September 2010.
Last week, Vince Cable, the UK coalition government’s business secretary, made a scathing attack on the “murky” world of high finance in his speech at the Liberal Democrats conference in Liverpool. 
He admonished the “spivs and gamblers” in the City of London; accusing them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye candy provides sweetest results for online marketers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 20th September 2010.
Stand in any public thoroughfare and you will notice at least half the business people present are surfing online. They are with you in body but not in mind.  Plugged into their mobile phone and smart devices, they are uploading a post on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Pakistanis are reluctant to invest in their country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 13th September 2010.
Last week some Pakistani banker friends of mine described their country as a basket case. Over the years, their country has become a lost cause, they said. 
It cannot feed its people, safeguard its borders, manage its finances or provide a secure environment for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Built for commercial success means built to nurture people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 6th September 2010.
Any entrepreneur will testify that two of the greatest barriers to success are regulation and access to resources. 
Regulation tends to be about the cost of doing business as determined by government policy. Access to resources will in most cases be related to finance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just when you think you know what a &#8216;budget slasher&#8217; is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 30th August 2010.
A friend of mine has recently structured a US$100 million (Dh367.2m) film fund to finance slasher/horror movies. The fund is forecasting solid returns for this genre, which is always in demand.  I put it to him that there were many parallels between bad managers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The long suffering of football fans and homebuyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 26th August 2010.
The modern game of football, especially in the Premier League, is riddled with change. But we football fans don’t particularly like change. 
We pick our football clubs at some early, impressionable age when we can’t tell the difference between half-time and extra time, and [...]]]></description>
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