Hi there,
I read your book and I was very pleased to see the efforts the Indian guys have made. I believe that the collection of 25 different stories are there just to prove that there’s nothing like a defined path for success. You have to do the right things at the right time and off course always stay hungry and foolish.

That was really an amazing book and I don’t really support the views some people hold that it was not descriptive enough or hurriedly written. I thought of it as an initiation which is just meant to prove that the recipe is not written and can’t be, the book just added to my inspiration that one should not live in a way which one later regrets. And I believe entrepreneurship is gonna be the ext big thing in India given the fact that China is growing old.

Congrats on the huge success of your book

When I finished the book there’s the list of emails and I tried contacting Sanjeev and Deep for an idea on a web site startup but no reply came even after waiting for a long time. I’d like to know if you could help me pass my idea to them or tell me a better way on how a person with an idea can get a platform knowing that he’s still in college but willing to work on stuff he can really devote time on.

Keep up the good work,

Rohan Anand
1st year
Integ. Mtech – Mathematics and Computing
Dept. Of Mathematics
IIT Delhi

My response: It is gratifying to hear back from the core target audience – young people still in college. Because the basic idea of the book was to inspire them towards the path pf entrepreneurship.

The entrepreneurs featured in the book do take time out to reply to those writing in but sometimes it’s just a busy time and it does not happen. But persistence usually pays. And secondly, having a mentor is a good thing but not necessary. As a student of IIT you have a great deal of resources on campus (peers, profs, E-cell, incubation). All you need to put is your time and effort.

Ultimately it’s about doing something, not THINKING of doing something. You will find a way if you want it badly enough! All the best

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