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  • Mavrix Blog – Completed 1 Year, 200 Posts

    The first post on our blog was published last Diwali, on November 3, 2010. Today we complete 1 year of the Mavrix blog and we are extremely kicked that we have published 200 posts as of today. That’s one post every other day for 1 year! We stepped up our posting frequency in the last…

  • MySwar Beta Announcement – Reactions And How We Are Responding

    I announced the MySwar beta a few days ago on this blog, on our Twitter account, our Facebook page, directly to a few people who I view as early adopters and music geeks and also a forum called RMIM. All of us at Mavrix also shared the announcement with friends and family. While I haven’t…

  • My First Media Interview

    I provided an update yesterday about a Mint Lounge story featuring me. I thought some might find the story behind the story useful. So here goes. After my initial interaction with Sidin (the writer), the process running up to this piece was a little scary since it was my first interaction with the media. Developing…

  • 5 Factors To Consider While Buying A Guitar

    It could be the funky groove in the song. Or the catchy riff in the chorus. Could definitely be the powerful solo building the crescendo. For what ever reasons we have, we can no longer deny ourselves the passion.The decision makes itself. To finally get yourself that  guitar. Or that  keyboard, the drums or that…

  • Setting Employee Goals In Startups – Our Story

    During the first few weeks of our productive work at Mavrix, we did not set any goals for ourselves. This was simply because the work we were doing was very different from anything anyone of us had done before. There was no baseline information on effort, productivity, duration, etc. for this kind of work available…

  • I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends

    Throughout our startup journey, I have been constantly reminded of how lucky I am to have the friends and well-wishers I do. Here’s what my friends helped me with so far: Got excited with me when I took the plunge. Reviewed my business plan. Some were critical but only in a constructive way. Told me…

  • Google Docs Follow-up – We Are Sticking With It

    A few days before our Content Analysts started joining, we revisited our Google Docs decision (finally!) and agreed that it made sense to continue with it. Here was our rationale: It’s free. (Yeah, I can’t emphasize that enough.) The alternative is expensive. In the few weeks that we used Google Docs, we felt that it…

  • Auto-tune For The Common Man

    It all started with Cher’s hit song, Believe. Actually, it started before, but the producers of Believe overdid it (deliberately) and made people sit up and go “What the heck was that?”. I am talking about auto-tune, of course. The instrument that magically polishes off vocal blemishes and even adds embellishments that are not humanly…

  • Startups – Be Prepared For Spam After Registration

    Since we registered, we have been hit by spam from various national banks congratulating us on the registration and imploring us to open an account with them. (Oh, the gap between aggressive sales and lazy servicing!) But the latest spam we received was outrageous and, I would contend, unethical. It was a package of books…

  • 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…