Rashmi Bansal is a writer, Entrepreneur and a motivational speaker. An author of 10 bestselling books on entrepreneurship which have sold more than 1.2 million copies and been translated in 12 languages, including Korean and Vietnamese. Rashmi is the # 1 business books author in India.
Rashmi’s first book was Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, the runaway bestseller on 25 MBAs from IIM Ahmedabad who went on to create successful businesses.
Her other popular titles include ‘Connect the Dots’, ‘I Have a Dream’, ‘God’s Own Kitchen’ and ‘Touch the Sky’ Shine Bright’. Rashmi’s latest book ‘We are the Champions’ released at Jaipur Literature Festival 2020.
Rashmi co-founded JAM (Just Another Magazine) which went on to become India’s most popular youth magazine. Her first job as a journalist was with the The Times of India.
She had been a regular contributor to Business world, Business Today and Consulting Editor with business news channel Bloomberg UTV.
Rashmi mentor’s numerous students and young entrepreneurs and also teaches a full-credit course called ‘Road Less Travelled’ at Ashoka University.
She graduated in Economics from Sophia College, Mumbai and did her MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1993.
The book, ‘Arise, Awake: The Inspiring Stories of 10 Young Entrepreneurs Who Graduated from College into a Business of Their Own’ is an inspirational book that reveals the success stories of 10 youngsters who instead of taking up a job opted for entrepreneurship and achieved success. This book not only peeps in their lives but also demonstrates various skills that are required for achieving success on the business front. It has been written by Rashmi Bansal in an engaging tone and published by Westland Books.
Only a few have the strength to defy conventions and start something of their own in this frantic corporate world of today. This book shares stories of individuals who took visionary decisions which led them on their path to create successful ventures. It includes stories of 'InOpen Technologies' that was established by Rupesh Shah. A graduate from IET Alwar, Rupesh showed immense faith in open source technologies and designed a product that increases efficiency of teaching methods. Aruj Garg started the food chain, ‘Bhukkad’ which focuses on fast food which is natural and healthier.
A CA final student, Apurva Joshi learnt the potential of fraud risk assessment during her internship at IndiaForensic and decided to tap this potential by creating her own agency FraudExpress. Eshwar Vikas and Sudeep Sabat were students at SRM Engineering College in Chennai when they realized the untapped market of dosa machine, which is why they founded 'Dosamatic'. Anurag Arora established Ganpati Facilities during his stay at ICFAI Business School in Pune.
He was fed up by the horrible facilities provided by their hostel and decided to create his own hostel and thus Ganpati Facilities was born. This book includes other such inspiring tales which will satiate your senses if you're excited by the idea of entrepreneurship.