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Start-Ups & Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Introduction
• A Start-Up is a young company that is beginning to grow and develop,
is in first stages of operation & is usually financed by an individual or
group of individuals.
• India has the second largest start-up ecosystem in the world ; expected to witness YoY
growth of 10-12%
• More than 20,000 start-ups in India, around 10,000 of these are technology led start-ups.
• 1400 new tech start-ups were born in 2016 alone, implying there are 3-4 tech start-ups
born everyday
Growth Drivers for Start-Ups in India
• Cost of doing business
• Proximity to customers/ vendors
• Size of domestic market
• 7 Million College Graduates per year; 55% of youth prefer working in
start-ups over corporates (as per a youth of the nation survey of 150K
young Indians) Median age of founders :31 Years
• Second largest consumer internet market in the world (overtaking
China) with 462 mn internet users ; 80% of these are mobile based.
Some Challenges
• 90% Indian Start-Ups fail within 5 Years of conception