Tuesday, September 01, 2009

The High Performance Entrepreneur - Subroto Bagchi

An excellent book that provides the insights into Dos and Donts of an Indian IT start up experience. At places I find it looks mostly like a course material on entrepreneurship and not much like maverick side of IT venture. It talks of Mindtree which is started by a set of strong managers of Indian IT industry and not by a group of technology experts who came up with a half baked but solid technology and wanted to make a big impact out of it. I think the definite maturity shown by the founders of Mindtree is commendable but madness of making mess of decisions as part of the start up development culture cannot be entirely ruled out.

Overall an interesting book. A bit like an elder brother giving advice to young entrepreneurs on dos and donts of entrepreneurship. But worthwhile reading.

The Chamber - John Grisham (1994)

A good family story but not the best of John Grisham.  I like John Grisham because of the depth in which he covers legal matters in his nove...