Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
We’re launching MyHongKong.com in 2012
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For the longest time, I’ve hidden this secret from friends & family.
Its always bothered me but I’ve endured it, thinking things will get better. Unfortunately its only getting worse.
I’m ready to tell you my secret now …
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Job: Product Marketing Engineer
DoubleSpring is a new media startup, specialized in building sustainable businesses online. Our development process combines the most powerful aspects of research, design, technology and marketing to deliver elegant interfaces, thoughtful features and positive ROI.
- We operate Bangalore’s most popular portal: http://mybangalore.com
- Our content management solution powers about 12 local portals in North-America: http://doublespring.com/localengine/
At this time, we are focussed on building AdHome, an online platform that could be a game-changer for the outdoor advertising industry. AdHome is a global marketplace for outdoor advertising. (website: http://adhome.com )
We’re looking for a sharp “product marketing engineer” to join our team
Job Description:
As the product marketing engineer working on AdHome, you will have two responsibilities;
a) Product Marketing – This will be your primary responsibility.
- Develop go-to-market strategy, including launch plan
- Market Research
- Create customer messaging & positioning, including collateral
- Develop content for the various constituents (sales, marcom, customers, blogs, etc.)
b) Product Management – This will be your secondary responsibility.
- Create technical documents such as product briefs, datasheets, guides
- Partnering closely with engineering to define marketing requirements documents (MRD’s) and drive data-driven feature/benefit analysis
- Making feature/schedule/cost tradeoffs during all stages of the product lifecycle
Preferred Qualification:
We’re looking for a candidate with entrepreneurial drive. Taking ownership of the product and getting things done should be in your DNA.
- Excellent communication skills and an analytical bent of mind.
- Atleast one year experience in a startup environment
- BE/MBA
Contact: Shuhaib ( info@doublespring.com )
The world’s first online marketplace for Outdoor Advertising … Coming Soon!
You Gotta Be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhyZzfG5QOQ
Listen as your day unfolds, challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
Lovers, they may cause you tears
Go ahead release your fears, stand up and be counted
Don’t be ashamed to cry
Martin Zwilling has authored an interesting piece for FORBES here:
A Growing Startup Should Only Hire Entrepreneurs
Agree with most of his views, except that I think “Entrepreneurs are born, not made“; Martin disagrees.
We’re launching MyGurgaon.com soon!
At this time we are looking for strategic partners in Gurgaon. Interested parties can connect with us here:
http://doublespring.com/contact/
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http://www.facebook.com/mygurgaon
This piece from Dick Costolo (Former Googler, Founder of FriendFeed, Currently: CEO, Twitter) pretty much sums up my experience with doing a startup
” On a psychological level, I think a lot of people confuse fear of failure with not having enough confidence in the ultimate success of their idea. They thus conclude that they aren’t confident enough in their idea or their strategy because it seems to have holes and flaws for which they don’t have answers. This is a tremendous mistake. While I won’t pretend to speak for the entrepreneurs I mentioned above, I bet if you asked them if they were confident on day 1 that they had a winner with each of their previous successes, they would look at you sideways and say “of course not”. Speaking for myself, I can say that my co-founders and I try to find a market opportunity that seems like it will need to be addressed and for which we think we have some angle and then we just pull out shovels and start digging and figure other things out as we go.
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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing!
- Muhammad Ali