Nikunj Verma

In an unfortunate turn of events, Flipkart announced last week that it is “firing” 800 to 100 employees. I wrote a LinkedIn post on this topic and was overwhelmed to see 100+ comments from people who have expressed their shock on the way Flipkart has handled this entire event. Looking ahead: Connecting Flipkart employees with new employers Criticization doesn’t help anyone.… Continue reading Helping 1000 employees "misfired" and "massfired" by Flipkart

Yes, that’s true. After a year of experimentation and learning, we are changing our name to “CutShort”. Why? SocialHelpouts was a great name, but only when we had explained it to someone for a good 10 minutes. When an average attention span is less than 10 seconds, asking for 10 minutes online is like asking for… Continue reading SocialHelpouts is now CutShort!

Date 14th April. CutShort office. 11 pm. Nikunj: Guys, we need to participate in a VC pitch event tomorrow morning. Can we make a funding deck tonight? Anubhav (rolls his eyes): We are raising funds? Nikunj: Not really. I had filled up an application form for a pitching event. They shortlisted us. Vinit (after sliding through some… Continue reading The slippery slope of startup funding

Like many of you, we have spent a fair time in hiring & faced several challenges. So many calls, so many meetings -most have yielded nothing. But recently we were able to hire someone in just 3 days flat, from start to finish. Upon reviewing the process we discovered some hiring hacks that we inadvertently used.… Continue reading Our hiring lessons

Are you guys funded? Everyone loves to ask this question. People at startup events, college buddies on WhatsApp groups and even co-passengers on flights. And sure, I get it. In the world littered with umpteen startups, funding reflects a certain external validation and “seriousness” of your venture. So nothing wrong with this question, really. But… Continue reading Why we didn't raise funding early on

First of all, thank you for showing interest in joining us and even more importantly, reading this post. In this post, let us candidly answer a few things that we discuss with everyone who is interested in joining our team. We hope it will help you decide if we would be a good fit for… Continue reading An open letter to people who are interested in joining our team

Startup hiring is hard. Not because there are not enough hiring solutions but because they deliver more noise than actual results. For example,  it is not uncommon to get 100+ applications on job posted on say LinkedIn, Naukri or HasJob. But most of these are irrelevant or come from fence-sitters. No wonder that one of the… Continue reading How is CutShort different from LinkedIn or Naukri?

Let’s admit it – startup hiring is tricky, time consuming and not exactly fun. Many of us find it as a huge distraction from the other “more exciting” activities we do at startups. So we tend to keep delaying hiring until it becomes a crying need. And when that happens, we force ourselves to repeat… Continue reading Startup hiring hack: Always be hiring

A bit of context first: Two weeks ago, we heard the unfortunate news that PubMatic was laying off 100+ people. To help the employees affected by this, we started an initiative to connect them with their prospective employers easily on our platform. Here is a brief checkpoint on what has happened since then. 40 companies have… Continue reading Two weeks after the PubMatic layoffs: here is what we have achieved so far