TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kashyap Deorah
TI  - GOLDEN TAP :  Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups
SN  - 9789351941668
U1  - 338.092 
PY  - 2015////01/01
CY  - New Delhi
PB  -  Roli Books
KW  - Production Economics
KW  - Deorah, Kashyap
KW  - Businessmen -- India -- Biography
KW  - Entrepreneurship -- India
N1  - 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

   



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