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Boom Country? The New Wave of Indian Enterprise captures the pulse of the entrepreneurial energy sweeping the country today. – Adi Godrej
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Today’s India is defined by new-age, bold entrepreneurs, and this book is an insider’s [account] of these change agents of our country.
This book adds tremendous value to those who wish to become entrepreneurs.
Alan Rosling . . . points out that while Indian entrepreneurism is at an exciting stage, it requires effective action to reap its full potential. Hence the question mark in the title. An excellent read and a welcome guide for entrepreneurs and policy-makers.
The best way to understand what entrepreneurship could mean for India is to hear it from the entrepreneurs themselves and that is precisely what this book is about . . .
I recommend with enthusiasm this entirely readable romp through the frontlines of India’s entrepreneurship revolution.
A highly engaging account… Alan [Rosling]’s deep-rooted personal engagement with India, which enables him to relate to the changes easily, makes the book special.
From brave entrepreneurs to fearless start-ups, Alan Rosling’s narrative on India’s entrepreneurial evolution is compelling and captivating.
An entertaining, inspiring and important book. Alan Rosling combines an outsider’s objectivity with an insider’s passion to bring us a great book – a potential business classic.
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— NARAYANA MURTHY, founder, Infosys and Catamaran Ventures
— BHAVISH AGGARWAL, Co-founder & CEO, Ola Cabs
— TARUN KHANNA, Director, South Asia Institute, Harvard University, and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
— KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW, Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon
— SUNIL BHARTI MITTAL, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises
— ANAND MAHINDRA, Chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra
— VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA, Founder and CEO, Paytm
— JAIDEEP PRABHU, Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Business and Enterprise, University of Cambridge
This Summer’s Biggest Business Blockbuster!
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About the Author
ALAN ROSLING is an entrepreneur and strategic advisor with a deep engagement with India over the past 35 years.
He co-founded Kiran Energy after leaving the Tata Group, where he was the first non-Indian Executive Director of Tata Sons, charged with internationalization of the group. His earlier career included general management, strategy and banking, and three years as Special Advisor to the British prime minister in the Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street.
Educated at Downing College, Cambridge, and Harvard Business School, Alan now lives in Hong Kong but travels frequently to India. He was awarded a CBE in 2014.
About the book
In Boom Country?, Alan Rosling, entrepreneur and strategic advisor in India for over 35 years, explores an unmistakeable and profound change that is underway in the Indian business landscape. A fresh wave of enterprise and start-ups, rapid advancements in technology, government reform, and recently developed pools of risk capital, he holds, are contributing increasingly to a massive expansion in new business – all of it underpinned by a deep social change, a willingness to ‘do things differently’, especially among the young.
Drawing upon his own experiences and more than 100 interviews with Indian entrepreneurs – representing traditional leading business houses (Tata, Mahindra and Godrej), established first-generation entrepreneurs (Sunil Mittal, Kishore Biyani and Narayana Murthy, among others) and new-generation start-ups (including Sachin Bansal, Bhavish Aggarwal and Vijay Shekhar Sharma) – as well as forces of the government, Rosling provides an incisive and in-depth analysis of the opportunities and challenges, both traditional and contemporary, of doing business in India.
Yet, the growing uncertainty of global trends and India’s own record of under-performing despite its massive potential lead him to one vital question: Can the current upsurge in entrepreneurial activity – imperfect and early as it may be – really reshape India’s economy and propel it towards becoming a true boom country for new enterprise?
