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Resume Gaffes

A couple of years back I had posted about some of the idiotic things that people write in their CVs. Lessons were not learnt it seems … till date we see thousands of such resumes with grammatical...

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Saving your Paper Trail

In the course of our lives, we create a large paper trail which we take with us as a means of identifying who we are, this trail involves Identification proofs such as driver’s license, pan cards, UID...

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How to Ace a Job Interview

When I was going for my first interview, no one told me this … however as time went by, all of us learnt the hard way. Always sit upright in the chair, slightly lean forward Never cross your arms or...

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Creating a safe working place for Employees

I read about the recent Julie Horvath issue which is out there on the internet, and thought that I might share some of my experiences on this topic. In case if you are not familiar with the Julie...

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The difference between a Good vendor and a Great vendor

9 months into this business, here’s a gem of a lesson that I have learnt. It’s good to have vendor’s guilt (you need to be clued in on Amit’s blog for this term, he is going to has shed more light on...

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The new office!

We recently shifted our office to Sakinaka to a larger, much open space. Shifting to a commercial property has its charms, and it has its overheads as well. This office will see us through for atleast...

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Happy Diwali 2014

Some highs which makes Diwali all the more sweet for me – More than a year complete at 13 Llama Studio We shifted to a brand new office We are going to our alma mater for summer placements All’s well...

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Maker’s schedule v/s Manager’s schedule

At 13 Llama Studio, we are a young and energetic team who works on multiple ideas at the same time. We are makers … people who tinker with code, libraries and see if we can put all of them together and...

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Notes from Pune Digital Marketers Meetup

March has been an exciting month so far, with multiple speaking opportunities both for 13 Llama Studio and me. On the 1st of March, I was invited arm-twisted into speaking at Pune Digital Marketers...

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My plunge into Start-ups

This brilliant Ad about how Housing created it’s logo takes me back by almost a decade. The video itself has a nice peppy feel to it, and then there is hope … hope and enthusiasm of starting something...

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Path to Scale

Every entrepreneur dreams of creating something scalable. Leaving behind a legacy which people look back in wonder and say … how did they achieve this. What do we mean by Scale? Scale could mean...

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Taking WordPress to Scale

I originally wrote this post on the 13 Llama Blog.   Having your own website and maintaining it has its own set of wins and losses. If your site is not popular enough, that’s a heartburn. Then one fine...

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After the Dust settles

Have been staying away from posting these days. This is not going to be a post on what should have been or what could have been. The past couple of months have been the hardest to tackle, on the...

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From Self Actualization to Selfies

As a student of Human Behavior at Work and as an Entrepreneur who has to drive his team to greater heights, I felt I had a firm grasp of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. An Aside: Maslow’s hierarchy of...

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2016 – A Year in Review

As the year whittles down to a close, I’d like to look back towards both the highs and the lows of this year. Hopefully, I can then celebrate more such highs and try not to repeat the mistakes of the...

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The Case of the missing Engagement Glue

This is a narrative to highlight how we somehow miss the element of human engagement in our day to day interactions. In an economy such as India, where 56% of GDP comes from services – missing human...

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Comfort Zones

In case, if you haven’t really been following my blog, I generally tend to write about tech, games, some personal thoughts, some thoughts about my work at 13 Llama and some analytics. What I do not...

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Solving the problem of Discovery

The real problem that Google solves, is the problem of availability. When you have a problem and are searching for the solution, Google provides you with a list of most likely content that can address...

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Why Working Class Indians Still Struggle to Buy a Home & What Can One Do?

There’s room at the top they’re telling you still But first, you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill A working-class hero is something to be John Lennon...

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Working with markdown and gitbook

For those of you who don’t know yet, I have shifted tracks to heading a tech team in a start-up. This firm focuses on helping first time home buyers with the largest hurdle in home buying, the down...

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