Paste or type your HTML here and click to previewEver wondered why global investors are willing to write million dollar cheques to young and inexperienced entrepreneurs? Why are companies no longer judged on their ability to make profits? Why the valuation of a startup can dwarf that of its well-established counterpart? Is it a bubble? Or have the rules of the game changed?

Can these hyper-funded; technology driven companies become global superpowers? Or is it an unsustainable phenomenon? The Golden Tap gives you the answers.

In a remarkably honest, no holds barred account; Kashyap – himself a serial entrepreneur – demystifies the technology ecosystem that exists in India today. From the origins of Amazon and Google, to the remarkable growth of Flipkart and Ola, he meticulously plots and chronicles a connected global sequence of events.

Set in this background he recounts his personal roller coaster of a life. A story filled with ambition, greed, vanity, fear and success that all young entrepreneurs can relate to.

Is this the business model of the future? Or merely a game of poker played by master investors? The answers pour out of The Golden Tap.

Part 1: THE INTERNET WAVE (1994-2002)
1.THE INTERNET CHANGES EVERYTHING
Netscape, Yahoo: and A,azon
The IIT Bombay Startup
Pop Goes the Bubble
2.The Five Stages of Grief
The Day I Became an Entrepreneur
Go Back Home
There and Back Again

PART 2 : THE GLOBALIZATION WAVE (2003-2009)
3.Sand Hill Marg
Don't Forget to Blink
The First Startup Gold Rush in India
Swades
The Poster Boys
RIP Good Times
4.This-of-That Investing
Tiger Globa; Management and Lee Fixel
Digital Sky Technologies and Yuri Milner
Shanghai Wife
Rocket, Naspers and SoftBank
Good Times, Bad Times
5.Level Playing Field
The cage
The Inspiration
The Inception
The Team
The Funding
The Launch
The The Bootstrapping
The Bells
The Deal
Part 3 : THE SMARTPHONE WAVE (2010-PRESENT)

6.E-COMMERCE
The Amazone Renaissance
Flipkart-com : Early Days
Tiger Returns
The Future Becomes the Past
Unit Economics
The Poker Begins
7.Waiting's Over
Beconnecting with Silcon Valley
Will Work for Food
Birthday Gift
Fortune Cookie
The Changing Face of the Indian Entrepreneur
Play with Opentable
Name your own price
8.THE GREAT INDIAN BOOM
Father-in-law Test
Indian Unicorns
Indian Rocketships
World War
The Pyramid Scheme
Race Course

PART 4 : WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE ?

9.BUSTING THE MYTHS
India is the Next China
A Limited Window of Opportunity
Hyper-Funded Startups are Too Big to Fail
Build a War Chest
Amazon Did not Make Money for the Longest Time
The New Government will Change Things
If you Own the Market, Profits will Come
India Has Enough Exits; We Don't Need IPOs
Indian Startup Employees Don't Care for Stock Options

10.THE NEXT INDIA
Sequoia and the Banyan Tree
Building Indian Businesses
Building Global Businesses