Book Review: Our Start-up by Dov Reichman







The complex world of start-ups simplified  


In a simple manner, through the story, the author explains the various facets of starting and forming a start-up business along with several life lessons and lessons about social contribution & personal growth.

All this .. with a complex and varied audience of school going kids (seniors), their parents and even their teachers.

It is indeed a difficult task to explain the complex world of start-ups to anyone. Add to that the additional responsibility of teaching some life lessons and moral / social responsibility in a non-preachy manner as part of the story telling. The author has done a good job of simplifying things while keeping a wide coverage.

While all this was good, i did find that in order to cover all facets, it became an overload. The average senior student of the school might eventually find the book heavy on concepts. This is a personal thought and may not be true, considering the generation of kids these days definitely seems to be smarter than my own generation.

An interesting book actually.

The cover deisgn shows a boy and a girl which could be misleading, but on the other hand the book is written with the very young audience in mind so it is probably appropriate and correct cover deisgn consideration.



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