The High Performance Entrepreneur

This is the title of a book I just completed reading, it is by Subroto Bagchi, co-founder of MindTree consulting, a mid-sized IT and consulting company.

On top, this book is about guidelines of creating a company, from a business idea, to IPO. The start, the VC pitch one need to make, branding & marketing etc.

In addition to above tips, this book gives enormous amount of learning for building a team; managing customers and managing difficult times; especially times like 9/11 and global recession. This book runs through different stages of a company, from a start-up from an apartment to multi-million dollar company. The author narrates MindTree story while he speaks these different stages. It catches because you can actually co-relate a theory with an example.

MindTree story is real amazing by itself; in terms of the way it progressed to achieve $100 million in a span of 6 years. This book gives a detailed description of culture and value system MindTree has and why it was build in that way. Author stresses the need for quality of services and gives instances as why this is important in today’s world.

In all, it has very good tips about starting and building a company. And it is an inspiring story to read. And more important lesson I learnt is following the dream you have, even if you face difficulties. After all, all MindTree founders were from pretty general middle class background and it is their hard work and resilience made their dream come true.

Building a company and watching it grow is like seeing your kid growing and going to college!