By Ronnie Screwvala
In Dream together with your Eyes Open, first-generation entrepreneur and UTV-founder Ronnie Screwvala info his giant stories and the myriad classes learnt from greater than twenty years of creating a few winning (and a few not-so-successful) companies, bringing readability to a quick altering company panorama and making an impassioned case for the position of entrepreneurship in India's future.
If you’ve ever had an impactful, disruptive product or company thought, been taken with possessing your personal company, or have already taken the 1st steps in your entrepreneurial trip, this can be the booklet for you.
If you’ve been operating your personal corporation for the final seven-odd years, and scale, model and
value-creation are the various crossroads for you currently, retain reading.
If you're thinking that your mom and dad or relatives could freak out when you dared to signify ditching your secure haven—your specialist job—to pursue your goals of possessing your individual company, sit back. greater but, proportion this ebook with them.
If you’re an skilled specialist able to make the leap into beginning your personal enterprise or devoted to growing to be into a good chief within the corporation you're employed for, learn on.
This e-book hopes to demystify failure, motivate luck, bring up goals and assist you imagine big.
Dream together with your Eyes Open stocks mess ups and triumphs, recommendations and anecdotes in an easy narrative that may assist you achieve greater insights into entrepreneurship and provides you a struggling with probability in terms of figuring out your desires in a David-versus-Goliath global. basically then do we reach harnessing the country’s huge, immense entrepreneurial power with the main lively and passionate humans on this planet, alive with clean mindsets, optimism and hope.
This booklet is set ‘it might be done’, now not ‘I did it’. It’s all attainable. simply dream your individual dream—and in the event you do, dream together with your eyes open.
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