When Google Tried To Poach The Founder Of A Well-Known App
Recently, co-founder and CEO of the call-identification app Truecaller received an email, purportedly from a recruiter at Google. The email included sending a feeler out to the Swedish technepreneur about a job opening at Google, and wanted to gauge his interest for the same.
These Indian Startups Had The Most Awesome Hiring Campaigns
You can either post a normal “Looking for a graphic designer for a creative and exciting startup” or you can show it. When job hiring campaigns are so good in themselves they serve more as marketing campaigns for the hiring company, other than getting the right candidates for the opening, it’s only a good thing.
Here’s some of the most creative, saucy and plain clever ads by Indian startups and ad agencies of late.
RoomLion Founder Accuses Housing And Rahul Yadav Of Copying Their 360 Degree Virtual Tours
RoomLion cofounder Ashish Agrawal has accused Housing.com and Rahul Yadav of copying their 360 degree virtual tours product during acquisition discussions in March 2014.
Snapdeal’s Top Management Reads Out Hate Tweets From Customers
In a bold marketing move, Snapdeal decided to do what Jimmy Kimmel had done very successfully with American celebrities. The company got its top management, including founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal and Chief Product Officer Anand Chandrasekaran to read out some of the most brutal feedback the company has received on social media.
Ex Ad Guy Depicts Unemployed Life With Brilliant Miniature Art
Derrick Lin was an art director at an Ad agency in the States. When the agency had to downsize and he lost his job, he decided to take a break from a job, and travel, connect with his family. And to deal with it all, turned to what he did. Illustrative story telling with mini figures.
Mumbai Ad Agency Welcomes New Honcho With Much Song & Dance
he agency Interface communications, part of the FCB Ulka group pulled out at no stops to welcome its newly appointed group MD and CEO with a Bollywood song number. The employees dressed up in Indian “baraatis” (dancers at a wedding) garb and broke out in a synchronised dance gig on the office floor.
GundaJoy Helps You Book Your Friendly Neighbourhood Gunda
If you’d been wondering where to find goons to beat up your cheating boyfriends or get back money from friends who don’t repay the money they owe you, don’t fear . A new startup, GundaJoy, aims to provide on-demand access to henchmen through its revolutionary doorstep gunda delivery app.
ZipGo Sends Impassioned Plea To Its Users To Save It From Shutting Down
Bangalore based on-demand shuttle service ZipGo has had a stormy relationship with Bangalore’s RTO. Late last year, the transport authority had raided ZipGo’s offices claiming that its services were illegal. ZipGo had gone off the roads, only to make a quiet return a few days later. This time ZipGo’s in trouble again, and its founders are appealing for help.
IBM To Reportedly Sack Over 1,00,000 Employees In The Biggest Corporate Layoffs Ever
In what could possibly be the biggest lay offs in the corporate history, IBM is reportedly planning to axe more than a jobs across the board.