book review of stay hungry stay foolish
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o Author-Rashmi Bansal
o Genre-Inspirational
o Publisher-CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad
o Date – May 2008,Mumbai
o Pages – 394
• She is a writer, entrepreneur and youth expert.
• She is the author of two bestselling books on entrepreneurship:
– Stay Hungry Stay Foolish.
– Connect the Dots.
– I Have a Dream, on social entrepreneurs.
• She is co-founder and editor of JAM (Just Another Magazine).
• She is a columnist on popular Indian news portal Rediff.com
• She is a consultant for international youth research agencies such as
The Futures Company (a division of WPP, London ) and Flamingo
Research (Singapore ).
• She has been a guest lecturer at various business schools of repute
including IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, ISB, S P Jain.
• It is about 25 IIM-A graduates who chose to tread a path of their own making.
• They all are graduates of IIM Ahmedabad ,who dared to follow their true passion under so many risks and leaving behind great opportunities knocked the door .
• One thing in common: they believed in the power of their dreams.
• Parts in which story is divided:
The Believers
The Opportunists
The Alternate Vision
Sanjeev BikhchandaniPGP’89“The book of JOB”
Shantanu PrakashPGP’88Rock with it, Roll with it
• Sanjeev Bikhchandani, naukri.com• Shantanu Prakash, Educomp• Vinayak Chatterjee, Feedback Ventures• Ashank Desai, Mastek• R Subramanian, Subhiksha• Narendra Murkumbi, Shree Renuka Sugars• Chender Baljee, Royal Orchid Hotels• Madan Mohanka, Tega Industries• Sunil Handa, Eklavya Education Foundation• Vardan Kabra, Fountainhead School
• Nirmal Jain• PGP’89• “It’s all about MONEY,
THE HONEY”
• Deep Kalra• PGP’92• “Tripping along”
• Deep Kalra, makemytrip.com• Rashesh Shah, Edelweiss Capital• Nirmal Jain, India Infoline• Vikram Talwar, EXL Service• K Raghavendra Rao, Orchid Pharma• Jerry Rao, Mphasis• Shivraman Dugal, Institute for Clinical Research in India• Shankar Maruwada, Marketics• Ruby Ashraf, Precious Formals• Deepta Rangarajan, IRIS• Cyrus Driver, Calorie Care
• S.B.Dangayach• PGP’72• “A Sense of OWNERSHIP”
• Vijay Mahajan• PGP’81• “Basic Instinct”
• Venkat Krishnan, GiveIndia
• Anand Halve, chlorophyll
• S B Dangayach, Sintex
• Vijay Mahajan, Basix
• If we follow our passion, success will follow us.
• It’s never too late.
• Take experience before starting business.
• Hard work, honesty and committed.
• Be patience, tolerant of failure
• Once you startup never look back.