You are selfish, networking for your own benefit. why should he? why?

Weird. Every form of networking, is for self-learning. What's selfish about that? 🤔

Operations Manager

Founder

Software Engineer

Just plain old networking. Catchup for beer/coffee sometime?

Can’t. Hands on with Nicky Minaj at the moment.

Web Developer

Nothing much. Want to network as a fellow Entrepreneur. :)

Will the real Michael Scott please stand up?

Will the real Michael Scott please stand up?- Grapevine

Absolute bloodbath at grapevine, as the @Micheal_Scott was layed off today.

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What are so many people sitting at coffee shops like Starbucks and Third Wave actually doing on their laptops all day?

Coffe shop MacBook people

Product Marketing Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I know this will sound like a very biased opinion but just sharing my 2 cents of today’s market.

The way with highest probability of success, money and ensuring a better future for your future generations is to startup.

It has the highest risk, highest reward. But in today’s landscape: where inflation is always higher than your hike, there’s no guarantee of employment even in next 1 years, the effort to remain in top 1% is humongous and many other reasons like that, really make me feel that if you’re able to start a company and even capture 0.1% of market who’s willing to pay something for your service/product, that’s all you need. Of course the struggle doesn’t end there and you have to keep working for as long as possible? But your capacity to earn and provide for generations to come is much higher than working for someone else.

All disagreement is welcome :)
Just tired of running this race for years now and still never feeling financially secure.

The guaranteed way to success (if there’s one)

It depends, founding a startup is a 24/7. For me, I need the time that 9-5 jobs provide after work for my health issues. Also my current company is doing a lot of layoffs so everyday I start with uncertainty and anxiety, but cannot quit cos I need the income. We are definitely moving backwards in growth in this corporate slavery, expensive education and inflation. In India, Our entire identities is based on our jobs as though your life is useless if you don’t have one!!

Senior Designer

Welcome to News Discussion's Private Community

It's high time you shift from 🍇 to 🍎 and reward iPhones

Congratulations Michael Scott

Growth Manager

Hey everyone!

I'm @UnpaidIntern, and I'm taking over from @Micheal_Scott (who is a really nice manager, and is personally committed to my personal growth) for the daily watercooler posts :)

What this post is: a place to hang around and chat just about anything - without having a specific topic to discuss.
Think of it like the watercooler at your office.

Look forward to hearing from you all!

Daily Watercooler - 8th Aug

Intern

Hi Grapeviners, 

This is yours truly Micheal_Scott with a massive announcement. 

We shared a feedback form with all of you yesterday. 5000 of you responded. 
We asked what you’d want Grapevine to be next. 
And you answered. 

We treat user feedback as gospel. 

Grapevine is now a dating app. Just as you asked. 

Grapevine has 10s of thousands of eligible singles. 

I personally cannot wait enough for the first Grapevine baby!

Grapevine dating is now live!

Product Designer

Sharing a note from the day I resigned. Well, alot happened from then and I am just grateful for how things have turned out. 

Also, happy festives guys🥳🥳

Just Grateful 😇

Please try not to glorify just doing your own thing. Do it because you want to make a difference to something or someone.

Product Owner

Generalist

Hey everyone,I'm considering launching a real estate startup focused on commercial consultancy. What are your thoughts or experiences with starting a business in this field? Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated!Also, if anyone is interested in joining this venture, let's connect!Thanks in advance!

Thinking of Starting a Real Estate Startup – Thoughts?

Real Estate

Are you a first time manager or do you have any questions around workplace productivity, team management, culture? Ask away!

15 yrs of exp., 2x founder, 1 exit, led diverse teams. AMA

Someone said it somewhere, I cannot remember who exactly but here it goes: 

The most beautiful thing in tech is working on a project you love with 4-5 people you really like working with. There's no comparable energy

The most beautiful thing in tech

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

So.. Around 2 years back I got my first payout of 50k as a referral bonus for a friend I referred to my company. 

Around same time.. My team had a few positions.. So i put it on linkedin and got a decent response.. Got another referral.. 

Next year.. I decided to scale it.. I started putting multiple posts on linkedin for positions across my company and started streaming the responses on google sheet. Having a big linkedin network of 20k helped. 

This year I scaled it to 4L a year... But then it all stopped after one fine day there was a HR circular to not undertake commercial level sourcing of profiles on linkedin.. And only refer ppl I know. 

It's a different matter that I could manage to source almost 20-40x more relevant profiles as compared to my HRs even with their third party agencies. More than half of my team members are my referrals :). 


While scaling this hustle.. This is what I learnt. 

1) You will get lots of spam.. I feel sry for some candidates .. But sometime even civil grads will apply for semiconductor jobs. 

2) Better to invite applications using a google form with proper filters.. Only serious ppl will apply. 

3) Do not refer everyone.. Reduce your effort and only refer candidates who have a chance. 

4) Engage with candidates, followup after interviews. 

5) Do not trust your employer will automatically honor referral payouts if you don't track.. I literally lost more than 2L coz of inefficient referral tracking system. 

6) Control your greed.. Even if you scale up.. Limit yourself to a decent no.. Say 2L a year.. Referral policy is for company's benifit.. They will shut you down one way or another if they find you are gaining. 

7) Handling it at scale is a lot of work.

What Using/misusing employee referral policy has taught me.

Never heard using referal as a side hustle. Great job

Data engineer

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Hey folks, i m a wannabe be entrepreneur. My reasons are simple I like problem solving and I want to create a secondary source of income. How do you find those problems? I feel you guys stumble upon problem statements through your own experiences. Ohh and one more thing, if there are any solopreneurs here on grapevine, let me know your thoughts as well as your journey too. Cheers :)

For the startup founders

After Shark Tank, we have seen Indian Angels and StartAb but I believe the actual problem is still not being solved. Tbh, more than 90% of companies shown in these TV shows are more like businesses rather than startups with not so unique MOAT or tech platforms. Moreover, they are about funding businesses that are already revenue generating and negotiating equity deals with half of the show time is all about equity negotiations only.

Still there are many with some unique ideas in tech landscape who are in search of Tech Co-founders to build the platform and many couldn't find one resulting in not starting their startup. What are your thoughts on a new show completely for Aspiring Entrepreneurs with unique ideas in tech with no revenue or product most for ones seeking help in building product/tech and stories where even an investment of Rs. 1 lakh can bring a big difference bcz even without that 1 lakh they could have never turned that idea into MVP and start that journey

Thoughts on a new reality show for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

I was the first person to join this app ffs 

We just computed everyone’s Grapes

But now I am pissed off to learn that I don’t have the most amount of grapes. I thought I was the most liked person here. I’m not even top 5. 

Not excited about the launch of Grapes happening later today/tomorrow anymore. 

@potatomato @salt @FunnyBones @DrProduct @AlphaGrindset @ElonMusk @tzr @BiryaniEnthu your good days are behind you now

I am pissed off

Any experienced Indian startup founders here having market experience. Need some tips.

Need to do networking

Software Analyst

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

I got into a startup (informal) and invested my savings and also took loan from friends and family.

It would take a couple of years to clear up but I am happy thwt I didn't let go.of the opportunity and the learnings also realised the following.
1.I enjoyed the thrill 
2.When something has to go wrong,It will
3.My priorities changed (family,health,mental peace)
4.I am enjoying what I have more than ever and not cribbing about what I don't have.

I am about to touch 40 and lose all savings(instead loans on the head) but I have never felt so calm ;)

Anyone with a similar life altering experience 😉

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