This is the personal website of Tarun Matta (tarunmatta at gmail dot com). The views expressed here are my personal views and not of my present or any past employer. MBA JobsFinance JobsMarketing JobsHR Jobs var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-2175565-8"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @tarunmatta)http://hiorbit.com/<p><ol><li>Distribution is everything.</li> <li>The only way to scale is by focusing on a narrow problem.</li> <li>If you can&#8217;t grow organically, you might as well not grow.</li> <li>Features are easy; adoption counts.</li> <li>Keep moving, times will change.</li> </ol></p>http://hiorbit.com/post/16753343936http://hiorbit.com/post/16753343936Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:02:00 +0530“There was no use worrying about the possible difficulties to come, they always loom very large and terrible in the distance, but when one arrives at the foot of a wall there is always some foothold that enables one to climb it.”<br/><br/> - <em><h6 class="uiStreamMessage"><span class="messageBody">Adventures of a Red Sea Smuggler, by Henry De Monfreid</span></h6></em>http://hiorbit.com/post/3655776050http://hiorbit.com/post/3655776050Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:06:21 +0530<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6kcqzdt5d1qztg4io1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Hindustan Times - Aug 3, 2010</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/896830857http://hiorbit.com/post/896830857Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:00:34 +0530<a href="http://strat.in/2010/06/mba-salary-survey-2010-from-iimjobs-com/">MBA Salary Survey 2010</a>: <p><a href="http://strat.in">Strat.in</a> talks about MBA Salary Survey 2010. Check it out.</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/729061315http://hiorbit.com/post/729061315Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:17:22 +0530<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4gbmwicFs1qztg4io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Indian Express - Jun 21, 2010</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/727969332http://hiorbit.com/post/727969332Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:38:56 +0530<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l401gedGjF1qztg4io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ahmedabad Mirror - Jun 11, 2010.</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/697045045http://hiorbit.com/post/697045045Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:37:26 +0530<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3orm9ARnp1qztg4io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Business Standard - Jun 6, 2010</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/675927456http://hiorbit.com/post/675927456Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:31:21 +0530<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxukt7C76B1qztg4io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Financial Express - Feb 14, 2010</p> <p><a href="http://www.financialexpress.com/news/leap-of-faith/579394/0"><a href="http://www.financialexpress.com/news/leap-of-faith/579394/0">http://www.financialexpress.com/news/leap-of-faith/579394/0</a></a></p>http://hiorbit.com/post/389422037http://hiorbit.com/post/389422037Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:28:19 +0530<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv04m11JEt1qztg4io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mint - Dec 21, 2009. Page# 12</p> <h3 class="GenericStory_Message"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.livemint.com/2009/12/20220357/Back-to-the-learning-curve.html"><a href="http://www.livemint.com/2009/12/20220357/Back-to-the-learning-curve.html">http://www.livemint.com/2009/12/20220357/Back-to-the-learning-curve.html</a></a></h3>http://hiorbit.com/post/293280967http://hiorbit.com/post/293280967Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:43:00 +0530<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksocihErh71qztg4io1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Crest - XLRI’s magazine talks about iimjobs.com</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/234705002http://hiorbit.com/post/234705002Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:55:00 +0530<a href="http://itmagz.com/index.php/technopreneurship-mainmenu/interviews-techno-ship-mainmenu-44/534-iimjobcomstrive-to-create-something-people-will-like-to-use.html">itmagz talks about iimjobs.com</a>: <p>Oct 12, 2009</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/213053265http://hiorbit.com/post/213053265Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:33:00 +0530<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kriq7dLifG1qztg4io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Business Standard - Front Page</p> <p>Oct 14, 2009</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/213052092http://hiorbit.com/post/213052092Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:32:01 +0530<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koy1ryHREQ1qztg4io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>HT Shine - Aug 25, 2009</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/171439203http://hiorbit.com/post/171439203Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:25:10 +0530<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koxboiC7rh1qztg4io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hindustan Times - Aug 25, 2009</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/171163181http://hiorbit.com/post/171163181Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:01:30 +0530<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/OBy5Kdvedq5s76gyvcey8m5so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hindustan Times - July 21, 2009</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/145883999http://hiorbit.com/post/145883999Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:50:35 +0530<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/OBy5Kdvedpvmj6bmCHj6eqGAo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ahmedabad Mirror - July 14, 2009</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/141199569http://hiorbit.com/post/141199569Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:14:15 +0530<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lh4Imk3KjQY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>ISB Placements 2009 on CNBC Awaaz on May 30, 2009</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/137649272http://hiorbit.com/post/137649272Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:58:32 +0530<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/OBy5Kdvedpne3jh7f5Irr45mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hindu Business Line on Monday, July 6, 2009</p>http://hiorbit.com/post/137648572http://hiorbit.com/post/137648572Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:56:00 +0530<p><a href="http://www.livemint.com/2009/04/05211933/Firms-prepare-training-module.html?h=A4">Mint</a> 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.</p> <blockquote>Tarun Matta, who graduated from IIM-I in 2003 and recently quit his day job to nurture <a href="http://iimjobs.com">iimjobs.com</a>, a portal for job seekers, said that IIM graduates are under “loads of pressure to land good jobs” and many of them would have accepted offers simply to let their school complete the placement process.<a href="http://iimjobs.com">iimjobs.com</a> has 25-30 resumes from fresh IIM graduates, indicating they are in the market for new jobs, even after all the six IIMs declared placements closed. Matta expects job portals to get more popular because of this churn.</blockquote> <p>You can read the article here - <a href="http://www.livemint.com/2009/04/05211933/Firms-prepare-training-module.html?h=A4">Firms prepare training module, hope all recruits will turn up</a></p>http://hiorbit.com/post/93388191http://hiorbit.com/post/93388191Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:42:00 +0530“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”<br/><br/> - <em>Theodore Roosevelt<br/>“Citizenship in a Republic,”<br/>Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910</em>http://hiorbit.com/post/92540653http://hiorbit.com/post/92540653Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:29:25 +0530