Indian Startups Have Huge Advantage Over Other Countries: Microsoft


He said due to lack of user interface development it often happens that "people may have the best ideas in the world but they cannot figure out a way after they coded it to show the idea and make it easy for someone to use it."

"I think we need to develop more on this skill. We need to develop the presentation layer of an app or a game," Landes said.

Two-and-a-half weeks ago, Microsoft began a program called JumpStart to help the start-ups.

"As we were doing these activities, one of the needs that we felt was sometimes a start-up has questions. Like at times they are not sure of what papers are needed to be filed with the government. We thought that we can provide that information online, sometimes people just want to talk to someone. So we have set up this JumpStart program, which is a free call for anyone in the country. The response has been quite good so far."

"In India we have been providing resources for many years. Any start-up can apply to BizSpark and it gives the entrepreneurs the tools that they need to be successful. Many many thousand of start-ups have availed the opportunity of BizSpark.

"We also have an Accelarator in Bangalore, where we take about 15 companies twice a year and give them very close mentoring and coaching. Here they get a lot of resources to accelerate their businesses. It is sort of a training and very close mentoring."

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Source: IANS