Nikunj Verma

Finding a job has changed a lot in this decade. And thus the modern professional has to adapt accordingly. So apart from cleaning up your profile, here are a few steps that could help you. Why do you want to join a new company? There are various reasons – you need to know yours. Is… Continue reading 4 steps to find a great job

Raising your first or second round of funding feels amazing. It validates that you are chasing a big opportunity that external investors find attractive. Celebrate this achievement but don’t forget that your angel or seed round is just the first step. You promised a dream to the investors – now you got to execute it.… Continue reading Mistakes to avoid after raising funds

Having a great team is crucial to the success of any company. But we often get so obsessed with hiring that we forget to ask some fundamental questions first. Are you sure you want to hire? Premature or rapid hiring can lead to several problems. For early stage startups, it can even be lethal due… Continue reading Before you start hiring

Hiring hackathons. They used to work so well. Geeks used to be excited about building something cool and getting recognized for it. The sponsoring companies were happy at the prospect of hiring some of these smart geeks. But then something went wrong. We started overdoing it. More and more companies felt obliged to join the… Continue reading Cutting short hiring hackathons

I know you hate it. You find interesting jobs and send messages to the job posters. But you get reply from very few of them. What is wrong? Here are top reasons why you might not be getting responses and how to fix that. Your first impression is lacking Use casual display picture, bad grammar… Continue reading How to get more responses to your job applications

One of the best things about running CutShort is that we get to see so many early stage startups. The innovative ideas and energy in the founders is very refreshing. But sometimes we run into the founders that seem to have taken the plunge a bit too early. Starting up is a huge challenge anyway… Continue reading Before you start your startup

It feels nice. A full 18 months after we wrote the first lines of code of CutShort, we have finally turned in profit this month. A proud moment for a bootstrapped startup like us. Looking back, when we decided to bootstrap back in 2015, it was not a common thing to do. Every other startup… Continue reading How we bootstrapped to our first profit

In 2016, while the world seemed to look inward (e.g. Brexit, Trump), it’s great that we Indians managed to largely remain a liberal lot. We Indians retained our firm belief in free markets and unanimously voted against anything that threatened the level playing field. We shot down clever monopolistic ideas such as Airtel Zero and Facebook… Continue reading Banning Amazon and Uber won't work; let's help each other ?

Comparing startup job offers is confusing, even for seasoned professionals. There is limited information available about startups and popular opinions are often subjective and based on the media hype. Result – many people either accept a bad startup job offer or reject one from the next Google or WhatsApp… To illustrate this dilemma, let’s say… Continue reading How to choose the right startup job offer?