January 2012
1 post
5 things I learnt being an entrepreneur
Distribution is everything.
The only way to scale is by focusing on a narrow problem.
If you can’t grow organically, you might as well not grow.
Features are easy; adoption counts.
Keep moving, times will change.
March 2011
1 post
“There was no use worrying about the possible difficulties to come, they always...”
– Adventures of a Red Sea Smuggler, by Henry De Monfreid
August 2010
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June 2010
4 posts
MBA Salary Survey 2010 →
Strat.in talks about MBA Salary Survey 2010. Check it out.
February 2010
1 post
December 2009
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November 2009
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October 2009
2 posts
itmagz talks about iimjobs.com →
Oct 12, 2009
August 2009
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July 2009
4 posts
April 2009
2 posts
Press Coverage
Mint talks about first time recruiters at IIMs this year. Some of them are concerned that eventhough students have accepted the offers, they may not turn up when the joining date comes in May.
Tarun Matta, who graduated from IIM-I in 2003 and recently quit his day job to nurture iimjobs.com, a portal for job seekers, said that IIM graduates are under “loads of pressure to land good jobs” and many...
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt “Citizenship in a Republic,” Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
March 2009
4 posts
Ten Lines Of Code...
Fred Wilson talks about the recent bit.ly funding
But just because something is simple to build doesn’t mean it won’t be a good venture capital investment. I’ve heard many people say they could build twitter in a weekend. I don’t doubt it. But twitter is more than code, it’s a popular communications service and an API that thousands of developers have built...
Press Coverage (contd ...)
Ahmedabad Mirror talks about fresh MBA graduates from premier business schools uploading resumes on iimjobs.com
“The rise in the number of applicants on our website shows that the students are clearly looking for better job opportunities,” says Tarun Matta, founder of iimjobs.com
It also dicusses the plight of students pursuing MBA from foreign business schools, struggling to land a good job...
Press Coverage - II
Economic Times talks about Fresh MBA graduates posting their resumes on iimjobs.com
The number of IIM students tapping job sites such as TimesJobs, Naukri and IIMjobs have doubled in the last few weeks, according to the webmasters that ET spoke to. Some are even signing up for the supplementary services that they offer to build better resumes, a first for IIM graduates, say portal managers....
Press Coverage
Mint quoted me in an article about ongoing placements at IIM Ahmedabad
Tarun Matta, an IIM graduate who runs iimjobs.com, a jobs portal, said in an email that while IIMs would manage to find jobs for all graduates, “fresh graduates from tier-II and tier-III would be the ones that’ll get affected the most”.
You can read the whole article here - Day Zero at IIM-A quiet, but with positive lessons
January 2009
1 post
Communities
Fred Wilson writes a story about Mark Zuckerberg while he was still a student at Harvard. It goes like this:
At Davos, Mark told the story of an art class he took at Harvard. He was busy starting Facebook and didn’t have time to attend the class or study. The final exam was a week away and he was worried about flunking. So he went to the Internet and downloaded images of all the art that...
December 2008
8 posts
Adsense doesn't scale
Here’s plot of my pageviews and adsense earnings for last couple of years.
Interestingly, there doesn’t seem to be any correlation between pageviews and earnings! What does that mean?
Web hosting
Got this mail from my hosting provider -
Actually we have checked and found that at a time 200-300 mysql queries are running through your site so thats why you are getting this issue so i suggest you please take VPS server from us because some time your site taking more CPU and memory usage of the server so please check and update us if you require further assistance
Guess its time to move to...
emails
finally…
after struggling with the mail server and dns records, I could set up my emails last night - tarun (at) hiorbit (dot) com is the new email id. It certainly helps to read the documentation.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....”
– Steve Jobs
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2 tags
What business are we in?
How often do we ask this question?
More Importantly, does everybody in the organisation has the same answer to this question?
“For big brands and marketers with significant budgets, the internet represents a...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/12/confusing-activ.html