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 are misplaced, but why do they persist? As with our international sporting achievements, the start-ups
Both attitudes are misplaced, but why do they persist? As with our international sporting achievements, the start-ups
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