Startup Stories of India

Startup Stories of India
Author: Dr. Sapna Rakesh
Publisher: Book Bazooka Publication
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2020-02-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9386895846

Start Ups are the arrangements that scaffold the holes presented by the genuine issues of life. Today we see some captivating Start Ups which are building answers for society's most difficult problems effortlessly and forming the universe of tomorrow. It is being said by wiser ones that beginning your business resembles planting a sapling. At first, you need to contribute your time and cash. At that point, you should deal with it and show restraint without anticipating anything consequently. In any case, when your Start-up grows, it makes all the persistence and difficult work advantageous. Be that as it may, similar to saplings, many Start-ups fail to develop—and many stop showing sign of growth after one or two years. While there are numerous elements prompting the failure of a Start-up, one of the primary reasons for their success is passion of the founder/co founder who are the master navigator of the ship of a new business. This book is an effort to acknowledge the effort of these navigators.

The Golden Tap - The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Start-Ups

The Golden Tap - The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Start-Ups
Author: Kashyap Deorah
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2015-11-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9351941574

Ever wondered why global investors are willing to write million dollar cheques to young and inexperienced entrepreneurs? Why companies are no longer judged on their ability to make profits? Why the valuation of a startup can dwarf that of its well-established counterpart? Is it a bubble? Or have the rules of the game changed? Can these hyper-funded; technology driven companiesbecome global superpowers? Or is it an unsustainable phenomenon? The Golden Tap gives you the answers. In a remarkably honest, no holds barred account; Kashyap – himself a serial entrepreneur – demystifies the technology ecosystem that exists in India today. From the origins of Amazon and Google, to the remarkable growth of Flipkart and Ola, he meticulously plots and chronicles a connected global sequence of events. Set in this background he recounts his personal roller coaster of a life.A story filled with ambition, greed, vanity, fear and success that all young entrepreneurs can relate to. Is this the business model of the future? Or merely a game of poker played by master investors? The answers pour out of The Golden Tap.

Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story

Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story
Author: Mihir Dalal
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2019-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1529041554

The definitive account of India’s biggest startup that redefined e-commerce, entrepreneurship and the way we shop and live. IIT graduates Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal founded out of a Bangalore apartment what would become India’s biggest e-commerce startup. Established in October 2007, Flipkart began as an online bookstore and soon came to be known for its ‘customer obsession’. As the startup’s reputation grew, so did its value, with venture capitalists in India and abroad lining up to invest heavily in the company that stood for bold ambition, unabashed consumerism and the virtues of technology. Investigative journalist Mihir Dalal recounts the astounding story of how the Bansals built Flipkart into a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse in the span of a few years and made internet entrepreneurship a desirable occupation. But it is also a story of big money, power and hubris, as both business and interpersonal complexities weakened the founders’ control over their creation and forced them to sell out to a retailer whose dominance they had once dreamt of emulating. Flipkart’s auction involved some of the corporate world’s biggest names, from Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai to Masayoshi Son and Doug McMillon, an ironic testimony to the strength of what the Bansals had forged. Based on extraordinary research, extensive interviews and deep access to key characters in the Flipkart story, Big Billion Startup is the riveting and revealing account of how Sachin and Binny Bansal built and sold India’s largest internet company.

Founders at Work

Founders at Work
Author: Jessica Livingston
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 143021077X

Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover? Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done. But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businesses do—create value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.

StartUp story

StartUp story
Author: Shivadhar Soma
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2016-12-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1946390038

India is going through the start-up revolution today and everyone wants a share of it. Everyone wants to get into it; be it a school dropout, a college graduate, a manager who is vexed with his nine-to-five job, a senior director who now wants to cross over the stream to test waters… Entrepreneurship is such an exciting world that everybody wants to just dive in and enjoy the swim. But is it really easy to be an entrepreneur and become successful? Do you have it in you to maneuver the turbulence? The book talks about all the aspects of why you should become an entrepreneur as well as why-not. While it might be rosy from the outside, unless you are prepared for a roller coaster ride, it might put you off badly. But don’t worry; all great things are simple, including this one. Passion and Purpose are the two most important aspects that keep the entrepreneur live and kicking. You could gain an in-depth understanding of how to start your entrepreneurial journey in this book. Success is guaranteed when you focus on creating a difference to this world, the society and most importantly, your true self. The journey is all yours! This book is a one of its kind as it offers true interaction with the reader by offering both bookish as well as real-time experiences from successful entrepreneurs and business leaders.

It Happened in India

It Happened in India
Author: Kishore Biyani
Publisher: Rupa Publ iCat Ions India
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Born in a middle class trading family, Kishore Biyani started his career selling stonewash fabric to small shops in Mumbai. Years later, with the launch of Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar, Central and many more retail formats, he redefined the retailing business in India. Incidentally, Kishore Biyani s objective is to capture every rupee in the wallet of every Indian consumer, wherever they are - an investment banker living in a south Mumbai locality or a farmer in Sangli. As large business houses enter the retail space, Kishore Biyani is not just concentrating on retail but aiming to capture the entire Indian consumption space. From building shopping malls, developing consumer brands to selling insurance, he is getting into every business where a customer spends her money.

Young Turks

Young Turks
Author: Shereen Bhan
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2014-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8184006691

EKA · SNAPDEAL · FLIPKART CAPILLARY · DRUVA · REDBUS JUST DIAL · BHARATMATRIMONY FUSIONCHARTS · INMOBI · IYOGI PUBMATIC · VIZURY Young Turks features thirteen of the most inspiring and brilliant tech entrepreneurs of our age. It includes interviews with first-generation entrepreneurs like Naveen Tewari of InMobi; Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal of Flipkart; Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal of Snapdeal; V.S.S. Mani of Just Dial; and Murugavel Janakiraman of BharatMatrimony. Based on the iconic TV show Young Turks, the book reveals how these individuals built multi-million dollar businesses and challenged the established tech giants of the world. It celebrates disruption, and gives you the inside story of how these successful businesses revolutionized in areas of innovation, scale, and sustainability of venture. With razor-sharp insights into these agile, forward-looking startups, this inspirational book is a must-have for every budding entrepreneur.

Why Startups Fail

Why Startups Fail
Author: Tom Eisenmann
Publisher: Currency
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0593137027

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Startup Compass

Startup Compass
Author: Ujwal Kalra
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2022-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9354225500

The idea of starting a company has never been more popular in India. A new breed of entrepreneurs is rising in the country, inspired by home-grown heroes, driven to pursue extraordinary outcomes and supported by an ecosystem that is willing to back audacious ideas. Startup Compass offers advice on starting and growing a company, shared in a lecture series at IIM Ahmedabad and over extensive interviews by fifteen iconic Indian entrepreneurs. These include Sanjeev Bikhchandani (Naukri), Deep Kalra (MakeMyTrip), Sachin Bansal (Flipkart), Falguni Nayar (Nykaa), Kunal Shah (CRED), Sahil Barua (Delhivery) and Raghunandan G (TaxiForSure), among others. The advice they give is invaluable, and covers all the stages in the life of a startup, from idea, team and product, to eventual exit. If you are looking to begin your own startup journey, are interested in the Indian startup ecosystem or are simply a student of business, this book is for you.

Startup Shāstra in India

Startup Shāstra in India
Author: Dev Shah
Publisher: Pencil
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2024-05-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9362633779

Embark on a transformative journey into the world of startups with "Startup Shāstra". This comprehensive guide equips aspiring entrepreneurs with the essential knowledge and tools needed to navigate the exhilarating yet challenging path of building a successful startup. Delving into the intricacies of the startup mindset, foundational principles, and the crucial transition from idea conception to execution, each chapter offers invaluable insights and practical advice. Learn how to initiate your dream venture, overcome early hurdles, and tackle the myriad challenges that come with entrepreneurship. From navigating risk factors to harnessing the power of emerging technologies Explore real-world success stories of Indian startups and gain valuable lessons from their experiences.