Our First Hire
Need of a Mobile application to track daily activities that effect fitness is obvious for us. We realized that it is not just about having a nice application out there, but it is about majority of the people accessing the right information and in the most convenient way. So we started listing down all the things required to make that happen, and got to a list of things that we need to do apart from having a mobile application that works on most of the mobile phones in India. The value that the application has for fitness seekers is obvious, but the most crucial thing is to get this application to work on our customers’ mobile phone. We lacked the expertise in making a J2ME application work on GPRS on all type of phones in India. Now one way to look at it is that it’s not our problem, people would get this done from their respective mobile operators. Instead of living with this dream, we woke up to the reality that this is an expertise that we lack. The action item for us was clear: get an expert onboard!
We interviewed a few people within our network of friends and tried to find someone who was an expert at it and more importantly, who understands what we are trying to do as a company and believes in “The Dream”. Thanks to Guy Kawasaki for the nice gyan in different talks and books on building the company the right way. I and Himanshu have been recruiters at Trilogy, FlightRaja and ngpay but the importance of “Hire the Infected” became clear to us after his post here.
Lucky for us, we found the right guy for us pretty soon. Suhas Yadav joined us on 4th July, and has been living the dream with us since then.
