Are Parents Responsible for India's Frail Startup Community?


Bangalore: Being a country with rich heritage and defined tradition, Indian culture guides the youngsters to follow the supervision of their parents religiously. The influence of Indian parents on their kids is immense and it is very likely for the young ones to inculcate similar thinking as the elders.

While it is hard for the youngsters and teenagers to work under bosses and they always want to do something out of the box, Indian parents impose the culture of getting a nice white collar job and “get settled”. Hungrynfoolish has proposed that Indian parents have a key role to play in India’s poor startup culture.

If you are not an entrepreneur, these are the ways how your parents might be responsible.

1. Score, score and score more

Indians have this unbreakable affinity towards numbers. Indian parents for instance, want to see the biggest numbers on their children’s report cards. According to every Indian mother or father, one cannot become a Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates if the scores aren’t high. Parents tend to demoralize their kids on getting low scores instead of discovering the positives in the failure.