Ravi’s Blog

I have been 6 months into this start up adventure. I started with a brilliant idea and kept working on the product. This has been a great learning experience about startup life, starting a company, working with folks across the oceans and a whole lot of other stuff.
The great news is that the company’s idea is refined, we are focused, and pushing forward towards the new vision. We could use more hands in building this great product.
I could try some hyperbole about how our product will do everything that you ever wanted but the reality, is that we are very focused. It’s a fun product, great set of ideas. We are working in an area that hasn’t seen real innovation for a while.
So, if you are an engineer who

wants to work where your ideas get to product as soon as you code them

give me a shout - ravi at azooba.net. Send me your resume.
I’ll explain the idea to you and we can chat. If we connect, may be we can work together.

Things to note:

I have been working on my startup and making some progress. I don’t have a product ready to launch, but i am no where near giving up and searching for a job either. However, a lot of recruiters contact me and try to talk me into considering some job or the other.

As a startup guy, i know recruiting talent is hard for small companies. Having a recognizable brand name like yahoo! or google makes it much easier for hiring managers. I mean half their job is done, in terms of attracting talent to their company. I have seen several startups resorting to some kind of hyperbole about themselves in order to attract talent. Some make claims about imminent funding, unique idea, patent or something else. I know it, i have done the dance and i am still doing it. My point is we start ups tend to exaggerate things a little bit to make ourselves more attractive.

I recently received a company profile as they tried to hire me. I’ll just put the actual text here and try not to comment on it

This platform, the source of the company’s competitive distinction, provides a collaborative, persistent, contextually integrated, always available (on any device), completely actionable (with any service), private and secure environment. The platform supports a matrix of mutually supporting business models, and is strategically designed for sustainable competitive advantage based on significant network effects.

Wow! What a platform!
They are looking for a VP of development to build this platform. Are you up for it?