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ENTREPRENEURIAL STORIES

Links to stories of entrepreneurs from the popular book Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, published byCIE-IIMA and funded by Wadhwani Foundation.

The book of job

Sanjeev is India's most successful internet entrepreneur. For close to adecade he struggled on the sidelines but never gave up on his Big Idea. In2006, naukri.com became the first dotcom to IPO on an Indian stock

exchange

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The book o f Rock with IT

Despite a regular middle class upbringing, Shantanu went into business whiledoing his B.Com. The entrepreneurial streak continued after the MBA from IIMAhmedabad. His company Educomp is today the leading provider of digitalcontent for schools across India.

Contributor: IIM A | Stories | 10 Mar 2009

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The Cat with Nine Lives

Vinayak quit his job at Pond's because he didn't see the point of selling soapfor the rest of his life. Originally set up as a market research company, over theyears, Feedback Ventures morphed into India's leading infrastructure advisoryand engineering firm.


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Software Cowboys

In the early '80s, much before IT was a buzzword, Ashank Desai set up

Mastek along with a couple of friends. Mastek was the first company to focuson India as a market and is today one of the top 15 IT companies in thecountry.


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Giver of Al l Good Things

He quit his job at Citibank 15 days after joining, feeling restless to dosomething 'more'. That something is today India's largest grocery chain -Subhiksha. Subramanian famously rebuffed offers from Reliance Retail as hebelieves the best is 'yet to come'.


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weet SuccessS

He shut down the first company he started after graduating because a Rs 5crore turnover was not "large enough." His second venture Shree RenukaSugars is today a Rs 1,000 crore company, and has changed the lives ofhundreds of sugarcane farmers.

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t your ServiceAHis family owns Baljee's, Simla's most famous hotel. Yet as a youngmanagement graduate, Chender decided to carve out his own niche. It tookhim 35 years but today Royal Orchid is a Rs 150 crore hospitality business.

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Such a long Journey

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In the 1970s it took Madan seven years to get government ncollaboration. But he persevered with his dream of excellen dtoday, Tega Industries is the world's third largest com

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The Alchemist

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usinessman to an educational entrepreneur, his is ascinating journey.

As the force behind the LEM (Leadership and Entrepreneurial Motivation) courseat IIMA, Sunil Handa has inspired countless students to become entrepren

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Yeh hai yungistan meri jaan

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As who are giving up seven figure salaries for the kick ofeing an entrepreneur.

In 2004, Vardan Kabra turned his back on an offer by multinational P&G tpursue his dream of starting Fountainhead School. He represents a newgeneration of young MBb


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Tripping Along

Deep went into business the way every entrepreneur dreams it will happen: aventure capitalist offered him $2 million to start up. But with the dotcom bust hehad to invest his life savings and buy back his own company. Makemytrip.com

today India's leading travel portal.is

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Bloom & grow

ut it wasn't a straight path to success - there were many bumps and

etours.

In a world dominated by the likes of J P Morgan and Merrill Lynch, RasheshShah set up a large and successful homegrown investment bank in a singledecade. B

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Its all about the Honey

nd today India Infoline is one of the

country's biggest online trading platforms.

Nirmal shut down his information services business in 1999 and put all his eggsin the internet basket. His gamble paid off a


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Its Never too Late

After a long and distinguished career with Bank of America, Vikram Talwar

have spent the rest of his years playing golf. Instead h

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e chose to set up aompany which today is one of India's largest BPOs.c


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Drug Baron

Raghavendra Rao has built up a $300 million dollar pharma company in 13 short

years. The son of a working class Railways employee, he now dreams of makingOrchid India's first $1 billion pharma company.


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The Banker who Blinked

A career Citibanker, J aitirth (J erry) Rao was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug inhis late 40s. He built up a large and profitable company (Mphasis) but recentlysold out to EDS because business is about passion as well as knowing when to

let go.


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Itch bin ein entrepreneur

Shivraman is someone who is always looking for the Next Big Thing. After astring of interesting jobs he set up one of India's first private colleges with a

foreign tie up (Wigan and Leigh) and is now pioneering clinical researcheducation in India.


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For Love not Money

He entered entrepreneurship by accident and his first venture folded up. But

Shankar and his team used that failure to get it right the second time with'Marketics', an analytics company which recently sold out to WNS for anestimated $65 million.


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Million Dollar Seamstress

Ruby turned her hobby of designing clothes into a flourishing business. Hercompany Precious Formals is one of the leading suppliers of prom dresses inAmerica.


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Order of the Phoenix

Deepta worked with American Express and CRISIL before starting IRIS, afinancial information management service.


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Health is wealth

Cyrus quit his private equity job in Singapore to launch Calorie Care, India'sfirst professional, calorie-counted meal delivery service. His own battle withweight prompted the idea of the business!


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he Art of GivingTHe's worked with a newspaper, a television channel and as principal of aschool. Venkat then launched GiveIndia, to promote the culture of 'giving' in

India. He is an entrepreneur but his mission is one with a difference.


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mall is BeautifulSAfter two decades in advertising Anand set up a brand consultancy calledchlorophyll. He believes 'small is beautiful' because in the quest for size and

scale you lose out on the joy of creation. This is an alternate model ofntrepreneurship.e

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A Sense of Ownership

He is not the owner of the company but in every other sense works like anentrepreneur. The man behind the iconic Sintex water tanks believes in constantevolution and creation of new products. And after 34 years with one company he

is still passionate about it!


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Basic Instinct

An IIT-IIM graduate, Vijay has devoted his life to addressing issues of inequalityand social justice but through management techniques. He pioneered the

concept of microfinance in India through an organisation called Basix which givesloans to the rural poor.


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