a) Space/infrastructure cinstraints for startups particularly for those who are entering and have just entered into commercialisation as host of issues like affordability,leaglity,ability to attract talent,putting the company in shape all becomes acute at this stage.

b) Awareness on supports and facilities available from different sources —- largely happens through networking on formal/imformal groupings and personal bondings. No central source i.e. kind of a desk/office/dedicated web site at NCR at any association/forum to inform/guide on such things

c) Startups in service /software products are finding lack of assistance for them as existing schemes are supporting products (hardware must )only.

d) Women entreprenuers and employees at start ups are finding eco-system harsher or at least not so conducive.

e) There is a lack/shortage of events in variety of formats to promote/focus only on startups i.e. events where startups are the main attraction and all other are coming for them.

f) lack of organisation for startups(entreprenuers) which can set these in perspective by linking all stakeholders like govt,investors, supporters ,incubators, media, lobbying etc. For example all informal gatherings are by innovators only and most of the time participant are also only innovators. In case of imformal gatherings like Barcamp participants are diverse but ambience is open sharing. In some others it is category focus. But seemingly all are missing a professional secreteriet mentored and guided by startup leaders/members addressing issues on wider scale right from education/training/skill requirements to infrastructure,govt policy inputs specific to them.

g)Seemingly there is a sense and willingness of reaching out to help others but everthing rests on a person’s resources i.e.time,money,will ,reach. Over the time; with growth of enterprise and also the reaching out mechanism’s popularity of such set ups become elite and general in their approach.

h) Issues like handholding of incubators/entreprenuership cells (at minimum standardising or advising on the basic infrestructure expected with them) , availablility of pool of experts on cross cutting issues for start ups , a common database of entreprenuers at different stages and respective addressal of issues by a representative forum, forums to involve donor and govt agencies i.e. development funds towards startup problems,involving civic authorities for infrastructure isues etc.

Can we start deliberating on the possible solution, their providers and ways to involve them collaboratively????? followed by the coordinated implementation.

We invite startups from NCR region to confirm their participation in the brainstorming session. email-sathiranjan@gmail.com,klsarkar@gmail.com