Why India Struggles to Nurture Budding Entrepreneurs


This analysis of the Indian entrepreneurial eco system has bought out the fact that Indians are quite business minded and the youth in the country are striving towards making an entrepreneurial living but all it needs a little bit of nurturing and guidance to help them grow substantially. Since Indians are a little hesitant to take up risk, the output also gets drastically affected as the Indian youth fear four kinds of risk they are - personal risk, financial risk, know-how risk and vested interest risk.

14 Reasons Indians Should Look to Start a Startup

Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem demands improvement

Things have slowly changed post liberalization in 1991. The entrepreneurial zeal has helped India bring out some great entrepreneurs with fantastic startups in their wallet. At a glance nobody would ever think that the Indian startup eco system has any problem but reality differs from what it looks like.

SME’s and Micro enterprises have extensively worked growth and job creation. It is estimated that between 2007 and 2010, the number of working MSMEs grew at a rate of 4.51% annually, while the number of people employed in the sector grew by 5.29% annually, and production of the sector grew at 11.48% annually.

Indian VC Investments fell by 30 pct in 2012