Ahmed Bilal

Seth Godin’s Tribes is the manifestation of the business / marketing industry understanding more and more about what works best and how people and communities work. The ideas in Tribes are nothing new, but they have finally been expressed in a easy-to-understand, ‘common-sense’ way that is Seth Godin’s forte.

Tribes talks about three things – creating communities around causes that are bigger than any individual, providing strong leadership for these communities and how to finetune your leadership of these communities so that you can achieve your goals.

The book is a combination of anecdotes designed to sell you on the power of communities – but if you already believe in tribes and want to figure out how to make the ideas work for you, you have to do the following:

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I first heard about Cricket Revolution in February 09, when I met Babar Ahmed of Mindstorm Studios at the Startup Insiders session at LUMS, organised by P@SHA.

The first question that popped in my mind at the time, perhaps a bit unfair, was: “Will this be better than the current crop of cricket games in the market?”

Having played the game over the last weekend, the answer is yes and no. Let me explain.

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For the last two years I’ve recommended TigerTech as THE website hosting company to go to in every single discussion on webhosting.

2 years as a blogger and consultant is a long time, and I’m proud to say that given the chance, I would have started out with TigerTech in the first place instead of wasting time and money at various ‘good but sometimes unreliable and often clueless’ web hosting companies for 6 years.

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