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Some things don’t change even after a decade!

Exactly 10 years back in Dec 2000, for the first time I had started preparing for the upcoming 12th Std science stream board exams with the aim of getting highest marks. At that time, I had recently scored the highest marks in my school in major science subjects ( Maths, Chemistry, Physics, and Biology) except that I failed in the English subject. In spite of getting the highest marks in the class, I was failed! Then I had decided that I would do exceptionally well in board exams and would become the first person to do so from our chawl … Continue reading

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You are invited to next E Chai on Wednesday, 8th Dec 2010

You are invited to next E Chai on Wednesday, 8th Dec 2010. E Chai was started with the single point agenda of converting “Rocket Singhs” into “Entrepreneurs”. E Chai is highly un-organized forum and can happen anytime anywhere in the world. During each E Chai session 2-3 aspiring Millionaires get a chance to showcase their idea or venture to all E Chai participants. Most of the time they sponsor the chai as well. E Chai participants are considered to be street smart, Jugaadu, passionate, knowledgeable, Rocket Singhs, story teller and willing to unlearn their world-class education.

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Point10 Updates: November – 2010

Month of November was very exciting. If you have missed anything here is fast updates of this month highlighting the last month activities. Launch of Point10Jobs.com Month of November start with the launch of our Job Board. A place where companies can post their job requirement. As always we have come up with the very basic solution for job with least features. Following our belief of doing less. Point10Jobs has very simple and clean design focusing on the Job post and emphasizing the quality of job. you can check out here – http://point10jobs.com Some of the latest posts on our … Continue reading

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Design Forces in P10 new design

We have been testing the new site design for last week and have finally launched it officially, But there is interesting development process that led to current design and i thought it would be great to share with you. Jatin and me having conversation that lot of new people asking about what is point10, whats is your story, how we are doing, what are our offering and lot other stuff etc… So Jatin told me that we need to have our site in a way so people can get atleast some part of things what we are doing very easily. … Continue reading

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List of our most favorite books which are strongly recommended read

Gandhiji

Last saturday we hosted the November edition of “Entrepreneurs10” where almost all entrepreneurs mentioned that they have been inspired by the books of entrepreneurs and thought leaders. Following is the list of our most favorite books which are strongly recommended read. 1. The Story of My Experiments with Truth – by Mahatma Gandhi The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1920. It was initiated at the insistence of Swami Anand and other close co-workers of Gandhi, for him to explain the background of his public campaigns. … Continue reading

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Which category of students you belong to?

At Point10 we are constantly working on nurturing students to engage more with the industry and explore more opportunities to realize their true potential. We’ve met many students with completely different perspectives and thought process towards building a successful career. Based on my personal experience of doing bachelors of engineering and since last 2 years working with many students, according to my observation there are five kinds of category of students based their perspectives on career planning.  1. Proactive They normally have plans for their future and consistently put efforts to achieve their goal. They have family and friends who are … Continue reading

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“Shraddha, Prem & Shanti” – Wishes from Point10 Team to All

New year has arrived and everyone is meeting each other to exchange best wishes. This makes me write a something about the new year and sudden thought came into my mind what one should need to be happy in life. This remind of ancient story and thought its worth to share with you all. story goes like this. There is one elderly man in the age of mind 60’s. He became very nervous and without any joy due to family and social problems and decided to left everything and went to jungle. On its way he found sanyasi. He stopped … Continue reading

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What does Diwali mean to you?

Happy Diwali

Yesterday mom asked whether the company where I work will give any Diwali sweets or not! I was like ‘Yeah, since the name of the company is Point10 they will give 10 boxes full of sweets’. This made me realize that how the perspective for Diwali changes each time when you are a professional and an entrepreneur. Things for which I was always super-excited about during Diwali : Sweets, Bonus, Holidays and Movies Sweets: I always used to get excited about what kind of sweets my organization will give? In spite of being in a position to purchase the sweets which … Continue reading

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Google way to find a dream job – $6 worth AdWords and More of Intelligence

Last year I wrote about “Google Way to Find a Job – Bit of Google More of Intelligence” – basically explaining the techniques I used to get a dream job. Whenever I wanted to change the job I had always left the current job first and then searched for the future job. Its not that difficult to get the right opportunity provided you are willing to innovate and take proactive actions. Recently I come across a video of New-York based copy-writer Alex Brownstein, who intelliegently used Google AdWords to attract the attention of creative directors of top advertising company when they goggled themselves. The Google Job Experiment! The whole … Continue reading

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Team Point10 at Entrepreneurship Summit, Infotsav’10, ABV-IIITM, Gwalior

With Mr. Paramjeet Sahai and participants

On 29th-30th Oct, I visited Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh to talk about Point10 at Entrepreneurship Summit, Infotsav’10 – an annual Techno-Management festival organized by ABV-IIITM, Gwalior. It was wonderfully managed event by IIITM students, especially I must congratulate Arpita Kapoor and Nirvaan Baid for the great work they’ve done for the event. Also I got a chance to take a lunch with Mr. Yashwant Kanetkar ( Author – Let Us C), during my Nirma days I always used to feel uncomfortable when any of my friends mentioned about his book and C programming language. I shared with him about my experiences and … Continue reading

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