Book Review - Connect The Dots

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About:

This book is written by Rashmi Bansal(entrepreneur, writer, blogger all rolled into one). The books tell the stories of not just about one or two but 20 courageous, determined and inspirational people from different backgrounds who chose to become entrepreneurs without doing an MBA.
This is her's second book, her first one "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish" was a similar kind of story, about famous entrepreneurs but all of them had done their MBAs from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Many people criticized Rasmi for the book because she just interviewed some people and put the facts in both her books rather than adding something new. But I would like to say that she has at least given us something inspirational to read other than the usual books on Ambanies, Tatas, and others.

Who should read "Connect The Dots"?

This book is highly recommended for anyone who wants to know how can success be achieved against all odds in the country.

Review: 

When you pick this book, you can't help but notice the cover page. The title is written inverted and even both her book titles were famous quotes of none other than Steve Jobs. In style of writing the stories is like the first few pages on what they did, how they did and the difficulties they faced finally ending up with small advice given by each of the entrepreneurs. The interesting part of the book is the three-section:
  • Junoon - Those who are driven by ideas well ahead of their times.
  • Jugaad -  Those who don't have any formal training in business.
  • Zubaan - Those who have creative minds!
The book is really one of the most inspiring books I have read in recent times. Reading different stories of how people have come from nowhere to do something for mankind made me really wonder as to what have I done in life despite being provided with so much on a platter. Be it Prem Ganapathy of Dosa Plaza who rose from being a dishwasher to head a 150 odd employee company with 26 outlets in India or Kalyan Varma who left his highfy job in Yahoo to become a wildlife photographer or Suresh Kamath who started Laser Soft Infosystems which is an IT company with a difference, each of the stories are amazingly inspirational.

Learning you can have from this book is:
  1.  It isn't necessary to have an MBA to become an entrepreneur because academic qualifications shouldn't decide a person's future and career.
  2. The entrepreneurs today are in a hurry to make as such money as possible as fast as they can. In any new project, the first few years are really challenging and one should be ready for that.

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