Startup Checklist

What did I need to get started?

Capital - Didn't have any. For website hosting asked Will to help out for the first few months and he put aside a folder on his site for Alchemy. For logo design and letter heads Sama and Nadeem volunteered. Business cards and stationary - wasn't too sure if I really needed them at this stage. First few presentations just dumped the logo on word and used that as a makeshift letter head.

Office space - Put a beach chair in an empty room upstairs in our home and sat down with my laptop. The HP deskjet printer went in the kitchen. Books, directories, paper went right next to the beach chair

Phone lines - For now home number would have to do.

Staff - To do what, we were hardly open for business.

What was I going to do?

Iteration one - Consulting actuaries - focusing on human capital and traditional actuarial work in Pakistan and the region