So, you’ve signed up to Kalido, matched with some great people, and are generally getting on with life. But what’s this notification you keep getting about sharing your phonebook? Should you dismiss it (again), and carry on with your life? … Read More
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Marketing 101: The Basics
As any freelancer, entrepreneur, or startup knows, having a good product or service is great, but getting it out to the market is an entirely different kettle of fish. We’ve asked our marketing guru, Greg Atkinson, to share some of … Read More
How to handle internal disputes in your startup
As an app developer, we work in that strange and wonderful space between hard logic and imagination. And as with any space where you have intelligent, autonomous, and often strong-willed, individuals working together, we experience our fair share of differences … Read More
It’s a good time to be self employed in London
Many people have the freelancing dream: Wake up late, get some coffee, play with the cat for a bit, then get paid lots and lots of money for a couple of hours’ work. The good news is, the reality is … Read More
Why we like personal recommendations, not impersonal stars
We get this all the time: Hey, why don’t you guys introduce a star rating system for users? The answer to this is surprisingly not-so-simple, as it’s an issue very close to our hearts. We’ll use the familiar system of … Read More
How we prevent people getting all up in your business (Our philosophy on protecting your privacy)
While we like to scroll through Insta pics of our friends’ lunches as much as the next person, we’re also very much aware that over-sharing is a big problem in this age of social media. So, as the builder of … Read More
5 ways you didn’t know Kalido can help you
So, by now you know Kalido is the great networking app for finding clients, suppliers, business partners, or even mentors, alumni from your school or university, or sports and social teammates. What you might not know, is that Kalido has … Read More
The advantages of ‘sprints’ even for non-developers.
As a software company, we’ve naturally integrated some Agile practices, though we’re not religious about it. More importantly, we extend its principles through our entire working process. At this stage, other developers are probably thinking ‘Obviously. We do too.’ While … Read More
Striking out alone: Kalido’s entrepreneurs
The Kalido community is full of successful freelancers and entrepreneurs. From creatives and developers, to architects and public relations managers, to personal trainers and trained chefs, we’ll regularly showcase talented users from around the world in our Self Starter series. … Read More
What we've learnt about contracting (Part 2)
They say in life, you can’t escape death or taxes. We’ve discovered another thing you can’t escape: legal contracts. Despite good intentions, and to protect against the odd bad intention, contracts are the only thing that will give you a … Read More
What we’ve learnt about contracting (Part 1)
As a startup, we don’t have the luxury of hiring expensive lawyers to handle all our legal matters. But without lawyers, legal matters can sure get expensive. As we’ve contracted our way through a slew of suppliers to find the … Read More
7 Useful Rules for Managing Suppliers
Finding people who share your work ethic and worldview can be quite difficult, as we discussed in this post. But, when you’ve finally found good suppliers, it’s equally important to have a good system for managing them, so everyone stays … Read More
10 things we learnt from dealing with a bunch of suppliers
As we’ve been building our freelancing app Kalido, we’ve been lucky enough to work with a bunch of really great suppliers, with whom we have productive, ongoing relationships. But we have also encountered some not-so-great suppliers too. So, for all … Read More
Building Kalido for the whole world, Part 2
The world is a big place. And considerations that are applicable in some parts might not be applicable in others. In Part 2 of this post, our COO, Ashvin Sologar, explains how we overcome some of the technical challenges involved … Read More
Building Kalido for the whole world, part 1
If you’re planning to revolutionize the freelance marketplace with a super-smart app, there are plenty of things you have to take into consideration. In part 1, our COO, Ashvin Sologar, discusses how we try to be as inclusive as possible, … Read More
Striking out alone: Kalido’s entrepreneurs
The Kalido community is full of successful freelancers and entrepreneurs. From creatives and developers, to architects and public relations managers, to personal trainers and trained chefs, we’ll regularly showcase talented users from around the world in our Self Starter series. … Read More
How we run an efficient startup
Here at the Kalido office, we find many people from all walks of life — entrepreneurs, consultants, managers, and others — who are interested in how and why we structure our work and processes the way we do. Some of … Read More
How we think about privacy and safety at Kalido
At Kalido, we’re constantly balancing between giving our users more information to help them make great matches, and limiting access to information to protect everyone’s privacy. Our COO, Ashvin Sologar, discusses how we balance useful v.s. creepy every day.
Kalido: The Vision (from the horse’s mouth) — Part Two
Our COO, Ashvin Sologar, loves to tell people about Kalido. And one of things he loves to discuss most is why Kalido exists in the first place. If you missed it, catch up on Part 1 here. Or jump straight … Read More
Kalido: The Vision (from the horse’s mouth) — Part One
When people think of startups, the immediate questions which pop up are ‘How did you do it?’, ‘How much do you make?’ or perhaps ‘When do you sleep?’. But to us, one of the most important questions is ‘Why do … Read More