Stay Hungry Stay Foolish - Book review

this has been a long pending one to update.

I read this book around 4-5 months back when I saw it at a friend's place. Having no other thing to kill time, I just thought I would borrow it for a weekend and it might be a good time pass.

So for those who have got no clue about it, its completely about entrepreneurship, written by an IIM-A Alumni, Rashmi Bansal, about 25 IIM-A grads, how they started out on their entrepreneurship ventures and what all it took for them to make it big in their life, who had passed out of IIM-A since 1970s and the list goes on till what you call 'quite' some years back.

Let me point out the good things first.

1. It certainly inspires you, no-matter-what unless you have no bias towards the author. At least I had the after effects of it :D
2. The book would perfectly make a valuable read to those guys who grow with a criss-cross net around them, with all the IIM dreams and of cracking CAT etc etc. You get inspired like crazy and go behind your IIM dreams even more ;)
3. You get a hang of what is entrepreneurship and how it mostly works inIndia. Each of the 25 grads have gone through lots, and ultimate things each one of the problem, very different.
4. You definitely get to learn about all the jargon that co-exist in an IIM grads' life.
5. The price of the book is only INR 125/- Perfectly affordable for a dull weekend.

Cons:

1. Each one of them, I mean the 25 grads say 'money shouldn't be the motto' and ultimately all of them hit the same goal of making money. some way or the other.
2. Too much of IIM stuff hyped up, and for a normal non-IIT-IIM reader, it turns out to be quite irritating after a certain point.
3. Things get too monotonous after about half of the book is done reading, the same "don't expect money, do what you are passionate about, work with a smaller-larger firm for a while, before starting on your own". Common, what was different you trying to convey!? Nothing!?
4. A definite amount of thought should have gone into shortlisting the 25 entrepreneurs who got a place in the book. Well I see some strategy on that here, which I don't understand, rather I don't want to understand ;) Some of the very well known guys from IIM-A are found to be missing, the one that hits my mind right away is Chetan Bhagat, is he not an entrepreneur!?
   
5. Instead some people who are very less known, especially in India, like those guys from Mumbai-the software people, and the San Jose based fashion designer lady, I forgot their names. Does it contribute to the cost-cutting part!? :P
6. And the entrepreneurship cell contacts that are mentioned at the end of the book to get in touch with, for all those who have their entrepreneurial dreams, does not work. I tried them and found absolutely no responses!
7. Rest of the damage is done here

But after all, we should give everything its time and so is to Rashmi! Let her get the hang of writing books and not just journals. Lets wait ;)