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The real secret about Indian start-ups
Kanika Datta | Jun 28, 2017 10:42 PM IST
India’s approach to our start-ups is much like our attitude to our sporting achievements. Every success provokes a disproportionate degree of pride. A bronze medal in the Olympics invariably attracts effusive front page coverage, a single silver yields an Arjuna award, a Padma Shri, luxury cars and dozens of cash prizes. So it is with our start-ups. Their fund-raising and dizzying valuations attract mandatory front page space and every aspiring writer has tried his or her hand at breathlessly chronicling their stories. Both attitudes.....
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