In last whole month, I’m hearing & reading lot about the Global Credit Crunch we’re having in our planet. I’m seeing people relating this crisis to each & everything which matters & even not matter at all. That is really crap!

I seriously hate when people directly relate technology with this crunch and then directly target India like this is the slowdown of Indian Technology Ecosystem; and it is more frustrating when many Indians itself support this crap-talk! My question why people act so blindly like our nation is all about off-shoring, why don’t they see the innovation. Surely, a large part of our technology ecosystem is based on outsourcing, But that is not the only thing that defines the system, there is major part of innovation which is driven from small start-ups incubating to large enterprises, there is innovation driven by small technologists like us, there is innovation driven by the most talented pool of minds in whole world we have.

Let’s take a typical Bangalore scenario. Out of city’s 5.8 million population almost 1.6 million people work here for technology. And, you may be one of them. Let me be very specific here… You work for “technology”; you do not work for your big IT company. Give a big hug to Big Uncles that your piece of job which you thought you were working for your Big IT company, might be part of lay-off movement. You never know. And, you’ve seen it too that corporate-culture sucks. Especially in remotely controlled technology ecosystem like ours. This really sucks!

Crunch like these works typically as a fuel to more technological innovation. 8 years ago we’ve seen when the bubble burst during the start of this century. That was a similar situation, though the center that time was the world wide web, this time the center is the Wall-Street & Markets around the world. For example, Take a look at Google, CISCO, Mozilla, WebMD all these companies started right in the middle of the bubble’s burst, all are valued over a billion dollar companies today.

Let’s talk about the tech now… Look closely, technology is anywhere & everywhere. It is wheel that drives innovation. Finance, Money etc is definitely an essential part of the system which is build by technology. But look separately, technology alone always keeps moving, it is completely a different matter that large tech companies are in crisis now, because we’ve really fucked-up the whole planet-wide financial system! Both are part of same system, but specifically both are different things. That is why I called you you work for “technology”… So be proud that you work for technology, not for your company! You’re a free bird!

Recently, I heard Barack Obama saying (via Krishna’s Blog)…

Bigness of purpose is what separates 20th century and 21st century organizations: Yesterday, we built huge corporations to do tiny, incremental things - Tomorrow, we must build small organizations that can do tremendously massive things…

He’s is 99% correct in recognizing the patterns here. I’m just hoping they do not fuck the system again, like they did.

Definitely, this is a major shift we’re witnessing. The trend is changing, this is a new era when new frontiers in technology / technology enabled systems will come up and redefine the system. And, we (India) have a major role to play… remember, you work for technology!

I will just finish this post with lines below…

• Get involved » more coffee » quit your job » start a company » crunch blooms entrepreneurship…
• We all have ideas. Those ideas, by themselves are worthless unless you enterprise them…
• It takes a lot to jump-in to entrepreneurship, but trust me. It is even better than orgasm!
• And, your twenties are time to take risks & it is a roller coaster ride…
• And, lastly… This is the best time to quit your job & start something you always dreamed about…

PS: I’m already an entrepreneur… I’m having my cup of coffee full. So, I was just sharing some thoughts ignited by coffee here

Hiring, It surely a hard thing for start-ups! In a start-up, what you have is a small team, limited resources which you have to convert to something good & big with the time; and the time flies like that Jet in the sky! Entreprenuership is hard because of involved unpredictbility, this unpredictibility makes it risky affair for many people out there.

Most of my friends work in technology-fims all across the town. I often meet people, lot of people who always say that apart from their regular work they want to start something of their own, some of them are pretty tuned with their “what they’re doing” in their office, most of them don’t have to do anything seriously with their “whatever they’re doing”, they’re just used to the system,  they’re just happy with whatever they’re earning as their salary at the end of month. Last couple of months most people whom I met reply… “I am on the bench dude! No work at all… I want to do something extra, but you know the tubeligh is not bulbing!” …

Rediculous senseless chain-mails & FWD mails are their mode of communication. For example, my former room mates… every night when I used to see them, they were still discussing about the shitty chain-mails they have… some of them only do this stuff and pass the whole day! Sure, they might have good skills and they can actually code… they looked like programmed monkeys by the corporate culture! May be this is state of all talent-pool we have in the Indian tech-industry; most of them are used to the system.

That sucks, sucks really big time!

It’s been great support from all of you… and surely it’s been a roller-coaster journey since we started. Company is moving smoothly, we’re kind of a “brand” now, we’re in the news, in the media and it is simply rocking!… Traffic on the portal is like that graph will never come down, people are just loving the service…

As most of you know, till now I am the single tech-geek around here… I guess, this is the time for me to move-up & release myself from day-to-day development activities as I have other roles to play, mostly on the tech-managerial side. 

Now, I am looking to in-house technical stuff and make a technical team in my company.

Mainly, I am looking for a special breed of technologists, which rarely exist in the tech-industry, even if it exist… it is hard to find such people with mix of both tech & entrepreneurial aspirations.

To start-with I’m looking to hire someone as a Technical Architect in my company. Just explore the info attached below, and just shoot me if you find it in-sync with something you always wanted to do or you find the same thing, same breed in one of your friend.

Just shoot me the CV & other introductory stuff, I always exist on same number +91 9900230494… can get-in touch instantly and we may discuss this opportunity in detail, interview & stuff…

Feel free to forward this opportunity to your friends and surely let me know if you find someone who fits in the role…

Company: RxHCM Corp. // www.HealthcareMagic.com
Industry: Health 2.0 / Web 2.0 / Media 2.0 / Connected Healthcare / SaaS /
Position: Technical Architect
Contact: Send CV to Shekhar@HealthcareMagic.com

Location: Bangalore
Job Profile: Excellent command over Web 2.0 Technologies e.g. J2EE, JSP, HTML, CSS, PHP, AJAX, JAVAScript, MySQL…
Knowledge of new platforms like Google WebToolkit, OpenSocial, Facebook Platform is an advantage.

What I’m Looking For: I am looking for expertise, not for experience.  Even if you’re a school kid with highly skilled in coding & design… I‘d love to hear from you… (don’t worry, we will make sure that you don’t miss your school!!)…

In other words, Mainly… I am looking for a Web 2.0 geek, definitely a geek of very high order with excellent exposure in current web technologies, someone with that "out of box thinking" & that "entrepreneurial bug"… someone who is passionate that Health 2.0 is the next big thing, someone who wants wear multiple hats & someone who wish to be part of which is never been done in India. Passion to work in a start-up, doing something new everyday.

Salary & Stuff: We love OpenSource, but at the end of the day money matters…!! What we can offer you is definitely better than what you are having & you can imagine! …Join us, do something great & if you rock, you’ll also have ESOPs in the company with-in 6 months of work with us… remember you must ROCK!!… You know what it means having ESOPs!… So, here’s the chance to work for yourself… I hope you might have heard about the “joy of working for yourself” & “developing that application/platform by your own hand… and you feel like it is your own baby”… I know you only heard, but here’s the chance to do it & feel it…!!

About HealthcareMagic.com: We’re a 2.0 Company!.. HealthcareMagic.com is the world’s first platform allowing a live interaction between Healthcare Services / Doctors and Patients over Internet as well as phone, Allowing integrated comparison shopping for Health products & services. HealthcareMagic.com enables patients, you & your family and friends to share their experiences with a Healthcare provider like Doctors & Hospitals, to research and purchase Healthcare Products and services with the same ease and transparency as shopping for other products online.

The Economic Times honored us as India’s first Health 2.0 platform. Also, HealthcareMagic.com is a TIE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008 finalist.

Click here to know more about the company

What we don’t do:

• Bind you by processes
• Promote you every 2 years
• Send you to class for trainings
• Give you a fancy designation
• Provide cab for pick and drop

What you can expect:

• Quality Work
• Respect for your ideas & creative freedom
• Responsibility and accountability
• Wearing ‘multiple hats’
• Your contributions reflecting in company’s progress

Who We Are: We are the entrepreneurs. We think, think a lot & think big… convert our ideas to action, we have created applications & platforms that not only run a company but build companies. We’re a small team of collectively more than 100 years of experience in technology & healthcare. Team includes rare combination of seasoned technical guys, grads from IIMs & IITs, IT Industry veterans & highly skilled MBBS & MD Doctors… Doctors, who are Doctor+Managers!

More about the team here

Sounds interesting to you?… Why don’t you get in touch with me on Shekhar@HelathcareMagic.com  // +91 9900230494

Be it Guy Kawasaki or be it Paul Graham or be it Steve Jobs - every pundit swears by the mantra that you should do what you love. If you do not enjoy what you are doing, there are very few chances that you will be successful in it.

So, here’s a question for those of you reading this post -

• How many of you actually love what you are doing ?
• If not, are you doing anything to change that ?

Feel free to leave your responses via anonymous comments. It would be great to get a feel of how many of you are actually pursuing your passion, whatever that might be…

The theory of 80:20 perfect applies to Indian Tech  Industry… my good friend Amit Darda defines the 80:20 theory as…

Almost all working people in corporate world must have heard about this. but still today no body is serious about this and day by day this ratio is increasing.

80:20 means it is a ratio of non working employee vs working employee. In almost all the offices in world only 20% of employee do work and 80% enjoys. Today with the new work culture, I feel this ratio is increasing as most of the employees don’t want to work. They just want big money for small work.

I seen many such cases and they are so lucky that even they get the places like this.

Often, people don’t find any enjoyment in the work… they are usually a part of a project & some other major stuff like that where there are 60 or 100 people like them are working for the same thing, thing which they might called an MNC project for some big-fish MNC client… and things which they miss are Recognition, India & Satisfaction. Personally, when I was working for my last company, though it was a midsize product company I was pretty aware of all these things. And, at start of my career this was the main reason I did not accepted offers from services companies in the town, though they were offering me much more than what I started with at my last company, but I was mainly looking for quality of work, team & recognition of things/work I do. I started-off as a freelancer in my college days, then the company I joined-in after college was pretty entrepreneurial. That helped me expanding my vision.

Nothing special about this post, It is not like that I’m not liking what I am doing… I’m loving what I am doing & I always love what I do…

This is just a post to see what you people think around about what you are doing rightnow…? Usually, I come across many people, many friends of mine… Even if they’re not doing anything they are pretty happy, and they pretend to be happy earning money for doing nothing in their office space, but sitting & googling & FWDing mails to their gangs, This is what we define as “typical employee minded”. Sitting & passing the month in the cube, almost doing nothing…  95% people I meet or know  are working for IT companies in the town and they are either not happy with their current work, boss or manager or looking for a change. Especially in the Indian Tech Industry, which is purely a service industry in our country… You must be familiar with terms like “sitting on the bench”… and stuff like that, So…

My question is why to sit if you can walk, you can do & most of all, you can think…?