what corporate can learn from startups

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Sachin Gupta Co-founder and CEO HackerEarth

Building a Startup – What it takes

• HackerEarth is the fastest growing community of developers, where they participate in online challenges, solve problems and build their profiles

• HackerEarth helps companies to hire top programming talent better and faster, using online challenges and accurate skill data.


What most people think!


Startups and Corporates


What it really is

No fixed job description for everyone


Bigger responsibilities and stakes


Ownership - A Necessity


It is a question of survival www.hackerearth.com [email protected]

Being Agile – The Startup way


1 Stay lean and focussed

2 Experiment and fail fast

3 Empathise everyone with the mission

Being Agile – The Startup way


Being Digital is Inevitable


1 Changing user experience

2 Lots of free marketing

3 Opportunity to go viral globally

Being Digital


Think Global – From day one

It cannot be an afterthought


1 The bar is high

2 Understand local nuances

Plan to go global from day one 3

Thinking Global

HackerEarth’s tryst with Vietnam



1 Sensitise everyone to the mission

2 Give ownership to people

3 Diversify roles

4 Fail fast and pivot quickly

Key Takeaways

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what corporate can learn from startups

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