Sometime during the full moon winter night of January 12 2007, when most of us were asleep, PaGaLGuY.com added its 100,000th user. The road to a lakh users took 4 years, 4 months and 10 days and a total advertising budget of less than Rs 10,000. No rocket science there really, your users market you [...]
Office Trip for Inzane Labs
When: 25th – 29th January, 2007
Where: Along the Konkan Coast
How: Road. One Indica. Two bikes.
Stay: Tents and Hotels
Who: Apurv, Bijay, Divya, Ekalavya, Rohit, Sonam
Day One:
Between us, we shared 12 cans of Kingfisher, 2 Smirnoffs and a lot of drunken revelery.
The PG gang
Lessons learnt:
1] If Rohit invites you for lunch/dinner, carry your [...]
The biggest challenge a startup faces! – Ramping it all up and keeping it right and sane. Any startup faces very similar challenges at a certain time in its life. Some of the ones we’re facing are:
1) Hiring – Damn.. We can’t have enough of the right folks!
2) Scaling up – Resources, office space, revenue [...]
What happened in here? Firstly, I just checked back at work and found that everyone who works for us now regularly forgets to update their own blogs. I think the workload is making them dizzy and/or most of them dont have anything to gripe about regularly
In between all that hiring and partying and [...]
We’ve been interviewing people rather frequently now, not with much success I might add. Here is a conversation I had today with a potential marketing ‘guru’. (PMG)
pmg: um.. so what are you looking for in people?
I: A bit of genius, the spark to think beyond the obvious and yes , a bit of disgruntlement.
pmg: huh?
I: [...]
Slap!!!
That’s what I do to myself everyday. Am no Yem-BA from a top notch institute or a guy born in a family having the genetic disorder of understanding money. Then what am I doing here as the Head of Marketing of India’s Largest MBA… err… Youth Forum ?
I think am understanding the value of myself. [...]
Welcome people!
Strange noises and weird smoke has been spotted emanating from a certain third floor office building on the busy Modi Street in Fort, Mumbai. This blog shall serve to pacify the neighbouring offices of Inzane Labs (yeah, the creators of PaGaLGuY.com and PaGaLGirL.com) that it is not time to call the cops yet. This [...]
