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YoMacha got listed among the top 130 startups of the country – and that is when it is about a couple of months old only.
YoMacha right now is ranked 32nd among the 130 startups, with your support it c an rank higher and maybe even with the Hottest Startup Challenge 
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So why wait – make YoMacha the hottest Start up of the country – vote for YoMacha at http://www.hotteststartups.in/viewandvote.do?method=fetch&businessFn=viewandvote&startupId=31 or just send an SMS HOT <Space> 94 and send it to 56767.
Cheers
Lads and Lasses,
Recently Yo Macha got featured in some newspapers. Thought it might just be exciting for all.
Hindustan Times (Mumbai) Coverage:
YoMacha in the Hindustan Times Mumbai Edition
And in Rajasthan Patrika (All Rajasthan)
Release in Rajasthan Patrika
Isn’t that exciting!!
Vande Mataram, Year 1947, and it meant so much more. Now, it is more or less reduced to a couple of proud Indians, fancy of film makers, ideal end to everlasting speech of promises from our leaders. This is not a post to crib about the current scenario, its a recall or a call for someone who would be our hero,again.
He got the Youth of India take notice and rise to the challenge, he would have to come back to do that all over again.
He said “I emphasise that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.“
Shahid Bhagat Singh““Revolution” does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife – nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on a new and better basis…..
…by “Revolution” we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change. The peasant who grows corn for all, starves with his family; the weaver who supplies the world market with textile fabrics, has not enough to cover his own and his children’s bodies; masons, smiths and carpenters who raise magnificent palaces, live like pariahs in the slums..
….the sense in which the word “Revolution” is used in that phrase, is the spirit, the longing for a change for the better. The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit. Otherwise degeneration gains the upper hand and all of humanity is led astray by reactionary forces. Such a state of affairs leads to stagnation and paralysis in human progress…”
At an age, that I am at, now, he had the guts to walk in and inspire. He had the guts to scream “Inquilab Zindabad”. I wonder if there would ever be a Bhagat anymore, would in today’s world someone leave the fancies and comforts of day to day life to fight and die for this country? Would our Youth Leadership be more than the uneducated selfish bunch of politically supported parties, or would we soon see some one step up.
If I go by what this hero said, its time for a revolution.
Who will be the trigger this time. Me, you, the person next door, or would that take another chauri chora to happen? Don’t have the answers too? I wonder if I will find them soon, I wonder, if I would ever have the guts to do something like that. Would you have them?
Think. Maybe that is the beginning, to a glorious end. Maybe.
*Note: the above post may or may not represent opinion of my colleagues. quotations above have been edited from various letters, comments, statements made by Shahid Bhagat Singh.
Ladies and Gentlemen.. Lads and Lasses.. hunks and babes.. all the cool and not so cool souls, it is time for another thank you speech (sob sob).
Crossed 1000 views for YoMacha.WordPress.Com (Clap Clap), made first few 1000 for the portal (Clap Clap Clap), have almost 1000 people working out of office (eight people out of our place is equal to 1000 people in an office), alexa ranking moved up (clap clap), Vandana’s computer is back to the department fixing computers (hope they can solve it, clap clap), Neeti changed her computer, bullied Varsha to use the one she was using, Varsha realized (What i had realised way back), that this one as well needs a repair (clap clap). Priyanshu, the new guy in the office is lost (clap clap). Amandeep and Snigdha completed their first days, they were quite surprised on the way our office is, hopefully they will come back (clap clap).
Our old friends don’t like us anymore, Mr. Microsoft does not come to our office, Mr. Akshay Patra is busy feeding others and have been ignoring us ever since, Mr. Beyond is trying hard to get some hair back, Mr. Himi has found someone in India, so is off to Delhi to see her. Mandu after realizing that she is our love has decided to play “judai” with us.
Overall, we are growing (age wise, health wise, traffic wise, people wise and otherwise). We think this blog should grow as well, thinking of starting a gossip section on the blog, what say?? Gossip about people and celebrities?? What do you think??
Do let know.
The headlines for the day….
Life at Yomacha! has become slow these days.
Ajit A.K.A Aj is struggling hard to find people for his Client Servicing Team and does up down everyday between the two offices.
Vandana A.K.A Vandy is working on another project now and looking for more people for support.
No tech guy has been hired till date, the search is still on.
Mandira (our Princess) is happy that its end of the July now, and soon her wait will be over.
Varsha feels like working today (i.e. 25July’08) so is still in the office.
And I(Neeti), as usual don’t feel like working, but hungry and want to sleep and missing the Fun..
That’s all for now……
These have been the most pressure days for the YoMacha team.. Focus is changing, costs are rising, traffic says Hi and then says Bye, very difficult to track what people are lovviinnggg and what they are not?!
I think I can switch my role to being a designer, I learnt how to make newsletters and some simple dreamweaver stuff, Vandana learnt how to confuse a guy when he is not confused at all, Neeti learnt how to teach.. our tech guy said bye bye, so we are hunting for a new one, the new one might just be a girl which would mean that YoMacha office will be the only office in India which has women majority and men minority (its is not a great sign, as less as only 1/5 of employees are men).. basically too much happening in the office with almost nothing happening at the same time.
Our key brand endorsers recently visited our office, Mr. Microsoft (yes again) was in office, so was princess mandu singh (after she had sailed enough and realized that there are other people on earth than the sailor), and the one who is gonna feed us in case we go broke (haha) Mr. Akshay Patra.
Jokes apart, we soon will be changing our office (yippeee), and soon will have some new features as well (ye ye ye) so keep checking YoMacha Baybeh! Cause it’s gonna be HOT this Monsoon! (Couldn’t have come up with something more weird, I am mastering this art. Courtesy: Vandana and Neeti, actually Mandu Singh is a big add on to it as well)
until soon, with loads of love
Ajit
PS: Check out the new header I know you love me!
It may seem an out of the blue posting, but as a person who have been fortunate to work with young people while being young myself, I would want to take the opportunity to highlight some things I have realized as a young Indian. This posting finds place on the YoMacha blog only and only cause if I average the age of people with the company, it would be 23 years approximately, which, I think is fairly young.
Ten things about India Young:
- Indian Youth is fairly aggressive and independent
- They are more inclined to starting up, or joining someone who is starting up
- They like fat salaries
- Indian Women are more reliable and high on delivery (personal experience)
- They would not endorse anything until they buy the idea
- They want to be famous
- They value relationships (personal belief)
- They are a brave breed, not scared to try new, unwilling to listen to anyone else but themselves
- “Dhoni effect” is for real
- They are influenced by west, as much as they retain their Indian element
The above are my personal beliefs and may or may not be agreed by my team people.
Ajit aka Aj
AJ’s got a new car Aj’s learning to drive!!! Ladies and few gentlemen.. Please stay off roads for a while !!
Aapki Subhchintak.
YoMacha, the portal with over 10 features across the web in the past three days.
Vandana, the woman who made it happen. Ladies and gentleman, with immense delight let me re-introduce Vandana (clap clap) (the same one who broke furniture and all), has made some real cool stuff happen. We got featured in various blogs, portals and news aggregators. To celebrate the same, I am putting links to all the posts that have happened.
http://themarketingblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/yomacha-indias-hot-or-not/
http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/yomacha-get-noticed-immediately-newest-web-20-venture
http://www.today.com/view/yomacha-lets-you-rate-indian-people-and-create-rating-wars/id-2023260/
http://www.arnsteinlarsen.no/?p=20532
http://dotshout.com/news/view.php?post_id=189495
http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-Networking/yomacha-com-indias-rating-and-social-networking-site/
http://www.socialnetworking-news.com/news/3-latest-news/57-yomachacom-another-rating-social-network-launched.html
http://www.newsreleaser.com/0000008672.html
http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/t/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/
http://www.miniboxs.com/thenet.html
http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/35901/
http://brants.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/the-middle-path/
http://www.matoumba.com/t/uploads
And being featured at http://nomadlife.org/labels/YoMacha.aspx, was courtesy of Mr. Microsoft.
Congrats Vandana!
Thanks to Mr. Microsoft, we just got featured on the homepage of Nomadlife.Org. Nomadlife is a blogger network with a collection of dashing nomads, AIESECers, Travellers and Adventurers.
YoMacha found its place a startup from AIESECers. Most of the core people of the team are AIESECers and so it is rightly there. Thanks to Nomadlife, we can be found here (http://nomadlife.org/2008/06/new-web-portal-by-aiesec-alumni.aspx), or if you check right now then the first story on the homepage is about the same.
Thanks Nomadlife! Thanks Mr. Microsoft!
