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The book is written by Rashmi Bansal, who herself is a MBA from IIMA. It contains twenty-five stories of various people who graduated from IIMA and at various points in their life took it upon themselves to do something different. The stories are broadly classified into three sections:




•The Believers – This section contains ten stories where the people knew that entrepreneurship was the way to go. They took the plunge straight after MBA or after a few years of work.


•The Opportunists – This section covers eleven stories where the people did not plan on it but snatched the chance when they got it.


•The Alternate Vision – This section covers stories of people who are using entrepreneurship for social impact or their own creative expressions.


This is the list of the twenty-five stories:

•Sanjeev Bikhchandani, naukri.com


•Shantanu Prakash, Educomp


•Vinayak Chatterjee, Feedback Ventures


•Ashank Desai, Mastek


•R Subramanian, Subhiksha


•Narendra Murkumbi, Shree Renuka Sugars


•Chender Baljee, Royal Orchid Hotels


•Madan Mohanka, Tega Industries


•Sunil Handa, Eklavya Education Foundation


•Vardan Kabra, Fountainhead School


•Deep Kalra, makemytrip.com


•Rashesh Shah, Edelweiss Capital


•Nirmal Jain, India Infoline


•Vikram Talwar, EXL Service


•K Raghavendra Rao, Orchid Pharma


•Jerry Rao, Mphasis


•Shivraman Dugal, Institute for Clinical Research in India


•Shankar Maruwada, Marketics


•Ruby Ashraf, Precious Formals


•Deepta Rangarajan, IRIS


•Cyrus Driver, Calorie Care


•Venkat Krishnan, GiveIndia


•Anand Halve, chlorophyll


•S B Dangayach, Sintex


•Vijay Mahajan, Basix


I am planning another (short) post on Connect the Dots. I am being kept busy by various things but I will try and write it soon. I hope you enjoyed this post and found it useful.