Bhuvan Bam, Ashish Chanchlani, Kabita Singh, Nikunj Lotia, Prajakta Koli, Ranveer Allahbadia, Madan Gowri, Team Naach, Yashraj Mukhate, Abhi and Niyu, Ujjwal Chaurasia-household names, every one of them, and as diverse as they come. They appear on social media, whether YouTube or Instagram, and actively engage with us. But these are not people born to fame-they charted their own course to achieve success and to becoming the widely celebrated content creators and social media influencers of the country. What sets them apart? How did they get here? There has not been enough research and writing on creating and managing a single person brand in an emerging, humongous creator economy like India's. The opportunities are immense, but in the crowded market of creators, the chances of getting noticed are minuscule. In Booming Digital Stars: 11 Inspiring Adventures in India's Creator Economy, Harsh Pamnani and Manish Pandey tell the stories of eleven top Indian creators through interviews with, and quotations from, the stars themselves. A crash course on how to carve your niche and build a strong and lasting personal brand.

A FUN AND INFORMATIVE READ ABOUT 11 ‘MADE IN INDIA’ BRANDS What sparked Ashish Hemrajani’s idea of an online ticketing business, BookMyShow, at a time when Indians had not yet moved their lives online? How did Anupam Mittal’s own experience of finding a life partner lead him to create Shaadi.com? Why did ‘India’s Pad Man’ Arunachalam Muruganantham get involved with menstrual health? How did the people behind Paper Boat hit upon the secret sauce of childhood memories to connect with customers? What made the founders of Zomato and BYJU’S think that food and education can be delivered to people’s doorstep (or their screens)? In Booming Brands, Harsh Pamnani shares the journeys of eleven ‘Made in India’ brands that have made their mark in highly competitive markets. This fun, informative read blends business lessons for new-age entrepreneurs with insights into the humans behind these remarkable brands.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this “gripping” (TechCrunch), “eye-opening” (Gayle King, Oprah Daily) memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship, the co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything. “Arrestingly candid . . . the most powerful book I’ve read on manic depression since An Unquiet Mind.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife At twenty-eight, fresh from Stanford’s MBA program and steeped in the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy Dunn was on top of the world. He was building a new kind of startup—a digitally native, direct-to-consumer brand—out of his Manhattan apartment. Bonobos was a new-school approach to selling an old-school product: men’s pants. Against all odds, business was booming. Hustling to scale the fledgling venture, Dunn raised tens of millions of dollars while boundaries between work and life evaporated. As he struggled to keep the startup afloat, Dunn was haunted by a ghost: a diagnosis of bipolar disorder he received after a frightening manic episode in college, one that had punctured the idyllic veneer of his midwestern upbringing. He had understood his diagnosis as an unspeakable shame that—according to the taciturn codes of his fraternity, the business world, and even his family—should be locked away. As Dunn’s business began to take off, however, some of the very traits that powered his success as a founder—relentless drive, confidence bordering on hubris, and ambition verging on delusion—were now threatening to undo him. A collision course was set in motion, and it would culminate in a night of mayhem—one poised to unravel all that he had built. Burn Rate is an unconventional entrepreneurial memoir, a parable for the twenty-first-century economy, and a revelatory look at the prevalence of mental illness in the startup community. With intimate prose, Andy Dunn fearlessly shines a light on the dark side of success and challenges us all to take part in the deepening conversation around creativity, performance, and disorder.

What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success. Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel -- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK? With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine the lessons of the country's adversity-driven culture, which flattens hierarchy and elevates informality-- all backed up by government policies focused on innovation. In a world where economies as diverse as Ireland, Singapore and Dubai have tried to re-create the "Israel effect", there are entrepreneurial lessons well worth noting. As America reboots its own economy and can-do spirit, there's never been a better time to look at this remarkable and resilient nation for some impressive, surprising clues.

From the Music Research Institute at Berklee College of Music comes a manifesto for the ongoing music revolution. Today the record companies may be hurting, but the music making business is booming, using non-traditional digital methods and distribution models. This book explains why we got where we are and where we are heading. Kusek and Leonhard foresee the disappearance of CDs and record stores as we know them in the next decade. For the iPod, downloading market, this book will explain new ways of discovering music, new ways of acquiring it and how technology trends will make music "flow like water", benefiting the people who love music and make music.

They've known the spotlight in a whole new way because they have defined what starting from the scratch really means. 15 stories, which have been lived and conquered in the simplistic world of social media in the most extraordinary ways. As we dwell upon the lives of these trendsetters, this book will enlighten the world with everything they are and everything they wish to be because dreams never come with a full stop. The book includes soul-inspiring journeys of Carryminati, Amit Bhadana, Ashish Chanchalani, Technical Guruji, Prajakta Koli, Harsh Beniwal, Flying Beast, Shruti Arjun Anand, Mortal, Vinay Thakur, RVCJ Media, Vipul Goyal, Mumbiker Nikhil, Jannat Zubair and Kunal Chhabhria. Indulge into the lives of these 15 biggest YouTube stars in India and every struggle they have faced in order to reach their heights of stardom.

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