Next Decade To Be Golden Era Of Entrepreneurship In India
Siddhartha Chandurka, founder and CEO of ShepHertz, offers services for building multi-player games, while Abhijit Bose has founded Eztap which delivers a smart and convenient mobile point of sale solution for small businesses.
Brief bios of these 27 startups indicate that all these companies are not only creating a niche for themselves in India, but also in the region as well - South East Asia, other parts of Asia and as far as Africa and Europe.
Many of them have now set their goals on the United States and have started the process of setting their base in the Silicon Valley. For instance, Bokaro (Jharkhand) educated Rohit Agarwal, founder of Framebench.Com, has incorporated his company in the U.S.
In their day long interaction with these Indian IT entrepreneurs, successful Indian Americans shared their experiences, challenges and tips of launching their products. Prominent among them were Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, founders of Cambrian Ventures, Junglee and Kosmix, and Prabakar Sundarrajan and Rajan Raghavan, founders of TheFabric.
"Building relationship is very important. (But) I focused more on products," said Rashmi Sinha, founder of SlideShare told the Indian visitors. During his presentation, Neeraj Arora, Biz development head of What'sApp, shared his experience and said one of the mantras of his company is work with less people.
The ecosystem in India, he said, does not support risk taking. A lot of development for the good has taken place in last few years, he said. "Mission is to get one billion (What's Up) users in next one year," he said in response to a question.
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