Who wants to hire this guy ?

We have been doing hiring at Wirkle from some time and once you start landing into a services business, hiring is a constant phenomneon. But one good thing with services business (if you are developing products with other startups) is that you have smart sharp teams working in a charged environment and you work hard and have a constant challenge.

Today we got a funny email from a funny guy:

Forwarded email (credentials of the person are kept confidential) :

I would like to explore opportunities to establish
employment relationship with wirkle.
My brief introduction-
Name: XXX
Education: B.Tech.(IT) from a good institute (but not an IIT)
Current Employer: some big software consultancy firm
Job Philosophy: Optimize ratio of input and output
1.Work ex- More than 1.5 Years
2.Current CTC - 4lacs (expected to be 6.5+1 after
promotion in April or June)
3.Expected CTC - 10 to 12 (According to job profile
offered and company profile, Flexible and Negotiable)
4.Earliest joining date - (Max 3 Months from
offer,Flexible towards lower end)

So this email is Funny because, I don't know what this guy expects but I guess guys like these are interested more in money than in work. Startups need sincere dedicated guys and I have seen guys technically more sound who just love their work. Normally in startups I would like to have guys who have put in lot of self-initiative, contributed to open source projects and are community people rather than just being money driven. My advice to guys like this is - join some other area like real estate - you might make much more money in that than being a software engineer!!!

So if someone has a requirement and wants to hire this guy, let me know!!

Wirkle demonstrates at Proto.in

Wirkle was selected as one of India's top 28 product technology startups selected to present at Proto (http://www.proto.in). Proto is India's first serious attempt to showcase new products, technologies and startups to the forefront. The event aimed at providing innovators a space to attract mindshare, finances, and the attention of the VCs.

The event took place on 20th & 21st January at Chennai.

Wirkle demonstrated the capabilities of its "patent pending" Mirage platform - a middleware along with a mobile application that dramatically simplifies building and deploying custom enterprise scale mobile applications. Middleware enables tracking and delivering customized information in the form of updates. The mobile application helps tackle the mobile device fragmentation for each individual customized mobile applications. The platform empowers its customers to interact with various enterprise applications and back-end IT databases using their mobile phones.

Wirkle at Comsware

This is a pic of Lomesh and Varun at Comsware!! They look techy don't they :-)

Wirkle at Comsware

Beginning tomorrow (10th and 11th January) Wirkle would be presenting itself at Comsware being held in Bangalore. So be ready to check in the Wirkle stall there. http://www.comsware.org/demo.html .

COMSWARE is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing emerging topics and challenges in Communications Software. The goal of the conference is to create a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts and venture capitalists, providing a launch pad for new innovative business and technology.

There are a couple of startups presenting there and Wirkle would be presenting its enterprise products. We have been gearing our platform for the enterprise market and you can have a look at how Mirage is powering the enterprise service helpdesk industry!

Proto - the Indian DEMO

Proto.in - india's first technology roadshow is being held at Chennai on 20th and 21st January 2007. I have always been fascinated by companies presenting at DEMO . I have seen their online videos and it's great to see the technology initiatives in US. Kudos to the Proto organizers who must have put in lot of efforts in organizing such an event in India. Though I guess it will be hard for Proto to match Demo but nevertheless it's a great start. Events like this will boost up the product technology culture in India.

MomoDelhi is back again!

MomoDelhi is back - a new year, a new beginning. So mark your calendar for 20th January. The momo delhi event welcomes all mobile enthusiasts, so if you have a mobile phone and are fascinated - be here to see what the future of mobile holds. From discussions on hard core technology to business to a way common man interprets mobile - this is the event to be in!!

And if you have your own perspective to share, we welcome you to present your perspective of mobile to the world!

Just add your name to the wiki http://momodelhi.pbwiki.com

Gmail Up

This weekend brought a good news with my gmail account finally working !!

It feels good to get that data back!! But I am quite surprised that there occurred such a serious bug within gmail that kept my account down for almost nearly a month!! I feel good that they looked into it and finally resolved it out but they asked me all sort of weird questions to get this thing up.

I was a big proponent of keeping all data online and just accessing it via the browser but this one situation is seriously making me rethink!! Email has become so ubquitous and if you loose it; you feel like being handicapped.. Perhaps one should have a fault tolerant service for something as important as EMAIL.

So guys you can now email me back on gmail but I will be lot more cautious using it this time.