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Is your startup doing the Mexican Wave? Insights on organizational behaviour

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| 3 days ago

One just can’t do justice to the phenomenonal way in which the Mexican wave unites, excites and invigorates spectators into producing such a visually stimulating spectacle! We have a lot to learn and apply to organizational behaviour from the Mexican wave. Think about the last time you were at a stadium and were part of a Mexican wave. Think of each aspect – from the typical lull before someone starts the wave, how others around the initiators pick up on it, how it travels through an entire crowd with remarkable coordination, how nice it looks when you see the wave travel and how it leaves such a large mass of people so invigorated. Is your startup doing this Mexican wave?

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Awesome Startup Workplace Series: Understanding Mindsets of Startup Employees

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| 6 days ago

In our first article in the ASW series, we focused on what motivates employees to join startups. In this article, we present our findings on what employees find most important while working at a startup. These insights are derived from YourStory’s recently concluded Awesome Startup Workplaces (ASW) Awards – the first exclusive employer of choice awards for startups globally.

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[Culture Series] From delivering tickets manually to selling 1.5 crore tickets online; what hearts redBus?

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| 32 days ago

redBus has had its fair share of media attention. One of the hiring companies at the Startup Jobs Fair, I was having multiple thoughts running around in my mind when I was heading over to their office in Domlur, Bangalore. From our initial coverage to Sarah Lacey’s rathercontroversial piece, moving onto the day when redBus crossed 1 crore ticket or Drew Olanoff’s recent coverage (or some random dude praising redBus), the online world has remained abuzz with news from redBus.

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[YS Lounge] Death Threat From An ex-Employee and Lessons Learned, a True Story From a Startup Life

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| 36 days ago

Any serious start-up cannot afford employees who don’t match the gene. My start-up Moolya is no exception to it. Our goal is to change the way world tests and how the world perceives the value of testing. To change the world, we know we need people different from the usual lot. We need people like us – who think different, who are courageous and who want to do awesome in their life and change the world. To get people like us, our hiring cannot be traditional. So, our hiring is structured in ways to find people who are different.

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[Culture Series] Lenskart – A Place For The Young & Spirited

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| 36 days ago

Peyush Bansal (CEO & Founder), Amit Chaudhary (Co-founder) and Sumeet Kapahi (Co-founder) launched Lenskart in October 2010 with a vision to “create value using Internet” and today this unique venture of selling eyewear online has become a huge success. At a time when people were just wondering whether they would buy anything other than books online, this duo managed to sell eyewear online!

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[Culture Series] The Bootstrapped Startup Pride of India from Kolkata- Fusion Charts

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| 39 days ago

This article is a part of the Culture Series we’ll be carrying as a run up to the Startup Jobs Fair, India’s first exclusive campaign to connect the most promising talent with the most exciting startups. This series will bring out the culture of some of the most dynamic startups that have managed to scale and make a mark… Here, we talk about Fusion Charts…