By sinha on 19, November, 2007 | Channel: Entrepreneurship, Indian Startups

Early Stage Technology Entrepreneurship and Incubators in India

Guest post by Sramana Mitra. Sramana is a serial entrepreneur and strategy consultant. If you are a startup and have your opinions/inputs on incubation funds, please share.
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My first experience of technology entrepreneurship in India was in 1994 while I was still a grad student at MIT. The most vivid memory I have of that experience is that it took me 6 months to get a phone line. It was before wireless. It was, most certainly, before venture capital in India.

Things have obviously come a long way. Last summer, I did a body of research on the Indian entrepreneurship scene, as I watched huge amounts of capital finding its way to India. Through that work, I also came to the conclusion that there is way too much money, and not enough fundable deals, and that India needs more incubator funds.

A year has gone by. Not a whole lot has changed. So I chose to revisit the topic of Incubators in India in a series of posts, on which I would like to hear from entrepreneurs, investors, incubator managers, and whomever else in the ecosystem with meaningful input. Here are the posts:

I look forward to your comments.

 

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    3 Responses to Early Stage Technology Entrepreneurship and Incubators in India

    1. Mahesh says:
      November 19, 2007 at 5:40 PM

      Sramana,

      Warm welcome to TechCrunch of India, Pluggd.in :) .

      Most Indian entrepreneurs have ideas, but there is no better place to talk and improve those ideas, which requires credible place to do so.

      I believe that this initiative [all the plug's] will help to boost them [entreps].

      Reply
    2. Puneet says:
      November 19, 2007 at 8:40 PM

      And why do you need incubators? Wordlwide incubator idea has failed…and except for Infra support, startups hardly get any benefit from incubators.

      A contrasting point of view – startups who get incubated “tend to” live under some sort of protection. Is tht good for startups?

      Reply
    3. Raseel says:
      November 20, 2007 at 12:31 PM

      Thats exactly the point Sraman is trying to make. That Indian tech companies need a “Eric Shcmidt” to handle the day-to-day business

      Reply