Dialogue with Authors
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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the
margins
These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying
– including my disagreement
Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :
Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business (
Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )
Following are my comments re :
The Click Moment
/ Frans Johansson / 09 - 19 Jan ,
2013
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2 days back I pitched to Professor Rahul Deshmukh of
IIT Bombay and to Shuklendu, idea of enabling users of IIT Bombay, version of
My Jobs , to exchange jobs amongst their contacts
It may be crazy but it could click
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On December 13 2012 , I requested Principal Damahe of LTIT
To fix up a meeting with someone at IIT Bombay connected with Aakash Tablet
project. He fixed meeting with Professor Deshmukh on December 15, where I
carried 4 printouts of a letter addressed to Professor Pathak, to
incorporate My Jobs on Akash
Deshmukh proposed a non-commercial virgin, using our site
resources and database. I agreed. Let us wait and watch what comes
out
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In my case , maybe such a moment was realisation that no
amount of promotional emailing can popularize My Jobs. Maybe
the best way was to persuade the tablet manufacturers to pre -load My Jobs on
tablets before dispatch
That made me write an email to Sales@datawind.com
Two more reminders still no response
In third mail, I urged the recipient to forward it to Suneet
Tuli - CEO . It clicked. Suneet responded positively.
I think that was March 2011
But it was only around March 2012 that the first batch of
Aakash tablets arrived and failed
Akash 2 came out around November 2012
But Suneet could preload My Jobs only on the the commercial
version UbiSlate - not on Akash Tablets being delivered to IIT Bombay
But because of Datawind, I could convince Swipe Telecom and
Teracom to do likewise
Some more are likely to agree
But biggest breakthrough could well be IIT- Bombay proposal
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