Youpid at the ITsAP & Headstart event at Hyderabad

Team Youpid is just back from a fanstastic outing at the ITsAP & Headstart conference of 2010 in Hyderabad! Thank you Hyderabad for all your love and support.


Youpid.in was nominated to be part of the demo pit at the event and we got an excellent platform to spread the word and interface with our users. This was a first for us where we had an opportunity to put up a stall for Youpid and the response was simply fantastic. The challenge to spread the word about Youpid in an environment full of other exiciting ventures was unique and we had a blast while we were at it!


Team Youpid was wearing traditional Indian wedding turbans and all the visitors at our stall joined in the fun and got their pictures taken wearing the turbans too. It was fantastic to see everyone happily don the Youpid turban and join us in the festivities!


Here are the @Headstarters !


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Some fun takeaways from the day were when we turned reporters and clicked turban’ed pictures of photo journalists who had come to take our pictures.


We almost turned offline match-makers as we connected two visitors to our booth, one had a son who wanted to get married and the other who had a friend’s daughter trying to find someone she might be interested in. All this while they together acknowledged the need that Youpid.in fills!


We even had someone asking to take the turban away as a keepsake!


It was great to see the overwhelming response that Youpid got, every person at the booth loved the concept and agreed with Youpid’s approach towards online matrimony! Singles were interested in finding singles through their friends! We had parents, sisters , brothers and relatives stop by and have an “aha” moment where they each realized how they could use Youpid to make a difference to somone in their lives who was going through the matrimonial process.


We were on our toes all day and were happy to meet our users and fellow entrepreneurs. Thank you for your warm reception Hyderabad and many thanks to Headstart and ITsAP for giving Youpid this fanstastic platform to demonstrate our product and also connect with so many wonderful people!


To share with you the craziness and fun that was Hyderabad, come check out the pictures of the people who visited our booth


March 14, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment »

Interview Tips : What a company really wants from a candidate.

Youpid.in is hiring. We’ve been going through resumes and taking interviews. Interviews whether or not they lead to actual job hires, show you what kind of talent exists in the industry. There is definitely talent, specially if you look at the resumes, people have done a lot of varied projects. However, most are not able to bring that out in the interviews.


Want to share a couple of quick tips that are in my mind right now. I think these help the candidate and interviewer too. The tips are loosely from a Startup job perspective.


  • Before the interview, look up the company online. All companies have an online presence. Read their blogs. Get an idea of what the company does. If its a website, join it, see what its about. Shows the interviewer that you’ve done your homework and that you are interested in the company’s concept/idea.
  • For any question, always refer to your previous projects from the resume as examples and answer. Shows that you have real world experience rather than technical book knowledge.
  • If you don’t have a real world example, then refer to your technical knowledge and say so. Interviewers appreciate that though you’ve not worked on a particular issue, you are aware of it.
  • If you don’t know the technical answer but have a general idea, think aloud, shows the interviewer your thought process and how you would go about tackling an issue that is new to you.
  • If you still don’t know the answer, be honest and say so. No one knows everything.
  • Ask questions about your job profile. What all does it involve, the technical perspective, the team. Shows that you are interested in being part of the team or the technology.
  • If you’ve followed Tip #1, tell them how you can be part of the company and make a difference.
  • This should actually be Tip #1, don’t send in a PHP resume for a ASP.Net job, unless accompanied by a cover letter explaining why you can be the right person for the job regardless of the technology difference. Just sending resumes to all jobs really does nothing for you.
  • Show control on the interview, if at any point you see the interviewer getting disinterested, don’t just let it be. Talk about technical stuff that you have learnt by yourself and not through your job. It tells the interviewer that you have drive and you are keen to go over and beyond a paycheck, shows initiative, shows hunger.
  • Be clear about why you are changing your job. Is it for money? Is it for better work? Is it for a better title? “Better growth opportunities” is very generic, unless you can be specific about growth in what.


What do you think? Do you agree, disagree, have any other tips that you would like to add?



Youpid.in is hiring, Web Developer (ASP.net) so you if are interested, get in touch!

March 5, 2010 | Tags: , | 4 Comments »
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