Mavrix

Category: Startups

  • Career For The Musically Inclined

    We are ramping up our team. If you are musically inclined and just beginning your career (freshers welcome!), you won’t find a more interesting project to work than ours. Check out our Jobs page for our requirements of the Content Analyst role. Get in touch with us or pass this on to anyone who might…

  • Mavrix Monthly Update Dec-2010

    Company registered. We finally registered as Mavrix Infotech Private Limited. The process took 4 weeks after we decided to switch from LLP to company registration. Enrolled into Microsoft’s BizSpark program. It is a fantastic program which makes a whole lot of Microsoft goodies available to startups at NO COST. There is no reason why a…

  • New Member In The Mavrix Family

    In the last (and the first!) Mavrix Monthly Update, I had talked about the first Mavrix employee. Now that he has served out his notice period, I can reveal the identity of the mystery man. Santosh Patil was the first person I interviewed for the Content Manager role and my assessment of his fit with…

  • Why Google Docs Makes Sense For Startups

    A startup has to select its office software (documents, spreadsheets, etc) early on. We picked ours based a quick and dirty assessment (is there any other kind for a startup?). Here goes: In the end, we selected Google Docs because: It’s free. It’s not the best office product but our needs aren’t very sophisticated. Collaboration…

  • Company Setup Is Better Than LLP For Indian Startups

    As any startup, one of the first things I did was to try and figure out what kind of a legal entity my company should be. Ruling out proprietorship and a partnership was a no-brainer due to liability issues. It then became a choice between a company (Private Limited) and an LLP (Limited Liability Partnership).…

  • Startup Interview Tips

    I had a very disappointing Saturday. I had four interviews scheduled and only one of the candidates showed up. When I asked the HR firm I was using, they said that it happens a lot because techies get “hundreds of offers”. I get the demand-supply dynamic but not turning up for a scheduled interview is…

  • Lean (But Not Mean) Is The Way To Go

    Corporations are not very popular these days: A documentary, The Corporation, is getting a lot of buzz. It’s based on the book “The Corporations: The Pathological Pursuit Of Power” by Joel Bakan, a Canadian law professor. The book/documentary questions the right of individuals granted to corporations in the US. It asks – “If the corporation…

  • Jerk Clones Are Worse Than Jerks

    There was an interesting comment posted in a TechCrunch story about Oracle’s Larry Ellison: “I used to work there and can tell you that there were many ‘mini-me’ versions of Ellison running around talking like him, and even dressing up like him. Rest of us used to laugh at them and make fun of them…

  • Mavrix Monthly Update Nov-2010

    Office furnished. Discovered that the best ‘value for money’ furniture (i.e. cheap stuff for startups) in Bangalore can be found in a strip of shops on Infantry Road. Be prepared to shop-hop and haggle like crazy. Office puja performed. Lord Ganesha invoked for an auspicious start and Goddess Lakshmi to help meet our revenue projections…

  • Why we focus on money as a reason to work

    To fulfill our material aspirations To secure our future and our children’s future We do not find anything else in our job to motivate us We are too tired or too complacent to find out ways to make our work exciting and meaningful We are too afraid to quit and find work that offers more…