Hard disagree. There is no evidence that startups of India are helping the GDP or improving the lives of rank and file Indians. In my understanding, right now, all these VC funded businesses are catering to top 100M of Indian population, people who are already living US-lifestyle in India.
I can see that being the case, no doubt. But for at least some new products and services, building and scaling them up to a billion+ person market requires starting with the 100M+ affluent Indians first. Then scale up from there. Tesla and electric cars is one example of this.
Many people somehow are able to overlook the lack of infrastructure and accident prone roads. Family+having access to maids, cooks, drivers, etc is a big driver of this behavior.
Anyone knows a good API to access books in my library? It is 2021 and there is no App which sends me daily notifications of what I must read. It is insane. The book is already checked out. I just need a remainder to read it or a random page given to me.
It's a marketing tool. It is like saying, "All these smart people believe in our growth potential. You as a potential employee too should believe us. You as a customer should think we have innovative solution to your needs"
Also, if I were to give one advise to startup founders. Ignore all advice online about how to succeed. It's mostly whitewashed stuff. Unless you know the founder privately, 1-on-1, it is useless. The only honest ones are from failed founders.
No.
Whitewashed as as in give an aura of we did no shady things, we never faked anything, we did not have to give an extreme discounts to anyone, all our discussions with customers were straight forward. We just walked into people's offices, gave presentation and they were a contract, there are no externalities to our product, we are very profitable and stress free at each step of the journey.
Also include, 'We didn't have rich parents, Who didn't provide us with connections and more importantly didn't provide us with the safety-net required for taking risks'.
Startups often use dirty tactics and connections to grow, but will later go on to say they just worked hard and found product market fit. The public example that comes to mind is reddit astroturfing their community to grow it, and that's a really mild example. Startups can do some pretty evil shit to get going.
I've contacted founders who completely deleted that experience from their Linkedin and pretended they were never involved with the startup, others wanted to seek YC's permission or were charging a fee to speak with me...crazy
Because no product manager has been able to push it through various layers of beauracracy (yet).
Plus more customizations means, their ML based personalized SERP page has failed in understanding your intent/needs.
A cabinet minister (secretary in US administration) got a call like this out of the blue. That is when the India govt work up to the problem. Nothing was done so far though,
Not really. news channels, print media, billboards, internet websites use devanagari script. But in Messenger apps, FB, Telegram, people use latin script.
