Startup India: How India Rebuilt the Startup Ecosystem by Removing Five Structural Barriers
Published on: Jan. 16, 2026, 4:20 a.m. | Source: Daily Excelsior
Excelsior Correspondent At the turn of the last decade, India was widely seen as a country of ideas, but not yet a country of startups. Entrepreneurial energy existed, ambition was plentiful, and technology costs were falling, yet the system surrounding founders was brittle. Innovation struggled to move beyond concept, scale was elusive, failure was penalised, markets were closed, and exits were rare. Entrepreneurship, for most Indians, was an act of personal risk rather than institutional support. The absence was not […]
