Silicon Valley bigwigs descend on the Indian capital for Startup India, eye big ticket announcements
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Startup India ’ initiative kick-started at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, and Silicon Valley bigwigs hope on big tickets announcements by the prime minister.
With the Startup India plan, Modi wants to have a Silicon Valley-type environment in India, giving wings to entrepreneurial dreams of Indians and boosting innovation and employment.
Bigwigs likeMasayoshi Son , founder and CEO SoftBank; Travis Kalanick, founder of Uber; and Adam Neumann, founder of WeWork are in Delhi and interacting with startup owners and entrepreneurs on future actions and growth of startups in India.
Modi is expected to announce a roadmap and policies for startups in India.
“We feel a lot of startups fail and so ease of starting and shutting down a company is very important and then the ease of raising money is crucial to success of startups," Venkatesh Shukla, president of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), told ET.
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With the Startup India plan, Modi wants to have a Silicon Valley-type environment in India, giving wings to entrepreneurial dreams of Indians and boosting innovation and employment.
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Modi is expected to announce a roadmap and policies for startups in India.
“We feel a lot of startups fail and so ease of starting and shutting down a company is very important and then the ease of raising money is crucial to success of startups," Venkatesh Shukla, president of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), told ET.
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