A young man from Meerut helped âmade in Chinaâ Xiaomi sweep Indiaâs smartphone market
In Xiaomi , Jayadevan P.K. chronicles how the company built a cult following & went from a Chinese start-up to a global player in the smartphone market.
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Xiaomi made a splash when it sold all of its inventory (10,000 devices) in just a few seconds on Indiaâs popular e-commerce site Flipkart. But it was nowhere close to being a serious competitor to other brands that had established a strong foothold in the Indian market over the course of several years. Besides, Xiaomi still had one more challenge that it had to urgently overcome before it could successfully penetrate this foreign market.
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Mihir Dalal’s candid Flipkart story ‘Big Billion Startup’ wins Gaja Capital Business Book Prize
The prize, established by Gaja Capital in 2019, carries an award of Rs 15 lakh for the winner. Abhishek Chinnappa/Reuters
Mihir Dalal, a business journalist with
Mint newspaper has won the Rs 15-lakh Gaja Capital Business Book Prize for his first book
Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story. The book offers a rare behind the scenes look at not only the success, dip, and rise of the first major online retailer in India, but also captures, importantly, the often tense relationships between the investors and the management, which at many points overshadowed the company’s commercial success and culminated in the spectacular departure of the founders.
Gaja Business Book Prize 2020: Six Titles Celebrating Entrepreneurial Spirit Shortlisted
This year s shortlist is a reflection of a new breed of confident, ambitious and rising corporate India , says one of the judges.
Shortlist Gaja Business Book Prize 2020 Outlook Web Bureau 2020-12-10T17:30:05+05:30 Gaja Business Book Prize 2020: Six Titles Celebrating Entrepreneurial Spirit Shortlisted outlookindia.com 2020-12-10T21:19:09+05:30
The Gaja Business Book Prize announced its 2020 shortlist of six best non-fiction books on contemporary Indian business. The selected titles comprise of a diverse range of stories business leaders, their entrepreneurial journeys, and the spectre of leadership.
This year s shortlist includes
Big Billion Startup – The Untold Flipkart Story by Mihir Dalal,