Lean, Mean and Profitable

'I can feel the difference in the air. Within five minutes of entering a startup's office, I know if it is funded by a venture capital (VC) firm or built brick by brick with its own funding...'WELCOME TO THE WORLD of Indian startups. Their founders are mostly middle class, bootstrapped and new to business. And yet on the strength of their ideas and effort, their companies now feature in our day-to-day lives and command multibillion-dollar valuations. With huge VC funds coming in and the large number of successes, the Indian startup scene has become the cynosure of all eyes. Lean, Mean and Profitable by Diksha Datta takes us into this world. There are many lessons to be learnt ftom them, as Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder of InfoEdge, points out in his perceptive foreword. Among them, the basics of selecting the team, source of funding, the pace of growth, and the everyday challenges. Datta's book, encapsulating their experiences, is therefore an invaluable guide for those looking to launch their own unicorns-startups with a billion-dollar valuation.