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1. Lists - the most common use is when you are listing objects, attributes or anything else.
   Examples: She is a smart, pretty, and interesting.
   I am going to the grocery store to get milk, eggs, and cheese.
2. Parenthetical - when you are expressing a thought, but need to add some side information.
   Example: The fox, which was quick, jumped over the lazy dog.
   In this sample, the quickness of the fox is a parenthetical. Notice that the sentence can be complete without including the information between the commas, which is always true in parentheticals.
3. Separating clauses when using one of the following conjunctions: and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet.
   When you have two closely related thoughts separated by one of those conjunctions, you need a comma.
   Example: The chocolate is dark, but it is not too bitter.
   The idea that the chocolate is dark and that it is not bitter are separate clauses, but are closely related to the thought of the sentence.
4. An introduction to the sentence – if your sentence needs an introduction before jumping into the main idea, you need a comma.
   Example: This Tuesday, I am not going to school.
5. Before a quotation - when you are about to introduce a quotation into the main discussion, you need a comma to separate.
   Example: “I wasn’t speeding,” she exclaimed with gusto.
   Note that in this case the comma always goes inside the quotation marks.

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Users upload a resume to the website and pick a reviewer to edit their work. Within hours, they receive a free resume review with comments and suggestions for improvement. They can then choose whether to pick the reviewer for a more comprehensive review.

Enterprising editors can also benefit from the service. 10Pens.com will offer them documents to be reviewed, and if enough positive feedback is received from submitters, they can start charging for their services.

“The goal is to do away with the standard practice of paying gobs of money to have your work reviewed by someone,” said Sidharth Kakkar, co-founder. “It relies on a transparent market to make the whole process effective and easy — qualities needed today more than ever in a turbulent and fast-changing job market.”

10Pens.com brings the power of crowd-sourcing to solve the toughest problems facing job seekers today. For college students and career changers, hitting the right note in your resumes, cover letters, and application essays can be a challenge.

10pens.com gives you the unique opportunity to have multiple sets of minds analyzing and annotating your work – to produce documents that make you stand out amongst formidable competition. For editing sharks, it is a way to put your red pencils to good use, gain a good reputation, add skills to your repertoire, and make some money while you are at it.

10pens.com is the brainchild of Sidharth Kakkar and Utsab Saha, who volunteered at Streetwise Partners, a New York City-based non-profit that pairs young professionals with mentees looking to make a career change or get a job. “The idea of 10Pens is that we bring this collaborative framework to everyone,” says Kakkar.

For more information, contact Sidharth Kakkar at sidharth@10pens.com or visit http://10pens.com

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3705 Quakerbridge Road , Suite 215, Hamilton, NJ 08619
646 – 770 – 3063

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There are about two hours total in the day, during normal waking hours, when we can even communicate with one another. Furthermore, we have not one, but two projects we are simultaneously building. (The other project is a new “people search engine” called Keeples, which you can read about here  ). Finally, we even have two separate teams for each project.

Somehow, miraculously, we can still get things done. The question is — how?

Install Skype

There really is no substitute for face-to-face communication, but in the worst case, voice is still a whole lot better than text. In my experience, it is extremely easy to get into strange arguments over email and text. Somehow, without voice, misunderstandings occur very frequently and without warning. If you go for more than a week without any voice chats, the misunderstandings can pile up into something disastrous. Certainly, for the more serious topics, we definitely use voice rather than email. In fact, more than once we have violated this rule, and several heated debates have erupted over email and gchat which could have easily been avoided if had used voice instead.

I noticed that we have even developed a sixth sense for pending misunderstandings and arguments while we’re texting. Midway during a Gchat exchange, as soon as the conversation turns to a “complicated” topic, immediately we will just know that it’s time to switch over to Skype. Recently, we have actually imposed a rule to have a manditory Skype conversation at least once per day.

In spite of all these efforts, communication is still a challenge.  But with some discipline, you can get around the problems.

I apply this philosophy for both 10Pens and Keeples. Instead of naively hoping that the projects will succeed the first time, I ASSUME the first try isn’t going to be quite what I expect. Instead of hoping for success, I hope for feedback — so that we can learn from our first experiences and try again. It is even on our product roadmap to have several iterations of the projects. Basically, our plan is to have one iteration of Keeples development, where we actually build the website. Then we market it. While we are marketing Keeples, we have one iteration of developing 10Pens. Then, while we are marketing 10Pens, we go back to the drawing board for Keeples and try again using the feedback we got during our marketing phase. That is, we build one website, then test it out on a population. Then we build it again, and repeat. I plan on putting at least four solid attempts into each project, 10Pens and Keeples, before I even think of calling it quits.

You could argue that you may not have the time nor the resources to try four times on a project. However, I would argue that if you are not capable of trying again after you fail, then you probably should not be launching a startup in the first place.

Me: Sidharth, why don’t we start by you explaining where you came up with the name 10pens.
Me: Sure. Once the idea for 10pens had been fleshed out, we were trying to think of a name. It came to me when I was asleep and I dreamt about killer pens with guns that shot ink chasing me. I wouldn’t have minded the ink so much, but the color of the ink was this strange yellowish-brownish-ocher and that’s just disgusting.

Me: I see. Tell me a bit about what 10pens is.
Me: 10pens is a site Utsab and I are working on that aims to help college applicants and job seekers in their respective goals. It won’t be a destination for all the help one needs with those tasks, however. It will be focused specifically on college admissions essays and on resumes/cover letters.

Me: Great. You wrote before that the product was in an early development stage, is this still true?
Me: Yeah, we’re working on building the site right now. We have the design work pretty much done, and we’ve moved on to developing the product itself. We’ve also been working on getting the word out a little bit about what we’re building, to try to get feedback. Finally, we’re continually working on strategies for marketing this while staying under budget.

Me: Ah. And what is your ‘marketing budget?’
Me: Oh, I can’t really remember.

Me: Approximately?
Me: Approximately? Zero.

Me: Zero? Why are you so poor?
Me: Hey, watch it there buddy.

Me: Sorry. So, when will the site be up?
Me: Not sure. I think I’ll save that for a real interview

Me: Okay. Can you at least tell us a little bit about the nature of the site?
Me: We are hoping to provide a platform that will encourage the development of a user community interested in editing each others’ work on their college and job applications. There are very few options for getting your essays or job applications reviewed, and even fewer options for helping others by reviewing those essays and applications. We hope to provide such a service for people interested in using it.

Me: Okay. Is there anything you’d like to tell people that read this interview?
Me: Yes, Thanks for reading!! Please leave any remarks or ask any questions in the comments. Anything at all, and we will read/answer every one of them.

We’ll be posting more details about the product itself and our progress as we continue work on it, so stay tuned!