Start-up Boom: Evolution Of Successful Entrepreneurs In India

The fledgling startup movement caught momentum with prominent industrialists becoming angel investors, says Alan Rosling in his work Boom Country

- Alan Rosling

Prior to economic liberalisation, the Indian business scenario was dominated by family-based companies or people opting for government jobs, instilled with the notion of being financially secure. There was very little or no success in being an entrepreneur. With the introduction of economic reforms in 1991, the start-up scenario started flourishing here.

An entrepreneur himself, the author, Alan Rosling, has put in the effort to provide an insight into the evolution of entrepreneurship in the country and described it in simple language through the experiences of over 100 successful entrepreneurs.

Rosling, a strategic advisor and co-founder of a Mumbai-based start-up grid-connected solar energy producer Kiran Energy, has compiled interviews of 109 such pioneers, of whom 92 were relatively recent starters.

He narrated his experience as: “These busy people gave me their time, their stories and their views, often sharing intimate, difficult or embarrassing anecdotes and opening up to another entrepreneur as they might not have done to a journalist.”