👀 Blindly copying Silicon Valley-style accelerator models doesn’t work in the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem. A homegrown approach relevant to India’s context is essential.
This approach neither works for startups. 🙅
It feels like a lot of Indian startups are just repackaged versions of Silicon Valley ideas — Uber for X, Airbnb for Y, Amazon for Z. But India has completely different cultural, economic, and infrastructural realities.
Do we need to stop blindly fo
Hey everyone,
I'd like your honest thoughts on something I've noticed. It seems like Indian AI startups are often copying ideas from Silicon Valley, rebranding them, and then securing substantial funding. For instance, take Mockey.ai. This trend app
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India’s AI startup scene is exploding.
Silicon Valley says India can’t build deep tech AI.
Too much brain drain. Too little capital.
But these 8 startups are proving them wrong:
🇮🇳 Sarvam AI – Raised $41M to build India’s first homegrown LLMs i
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These 3 guys became billionaires by copying other companies.
They created clones of eBay, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter…
And somehow they got away with it (and made billions).
Here’s the crazy story of the Samwer Brothers:
In the late 1990s, the Sam
Uber Just Admitted Defeat to Indian Startups!
Here’s what has happened (if you have not read it before!)
Uber, the global rideshare titan, just made a pivot in India and now instead of taking commissions for auto-rickshaw rides will now let driver
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Both of these guys are college dropouts.
One built a social network. The other built Ethereum.
2 billionaires. 1 identical formula for spotting opportunities.
This is how these 2 visionaries use this to shape the future of the world:
Zuckerberg’s
Mailchimp's Bootstrapped Success Story
How does a side project become a multi-billion dollar company without a single penny of outside investment?
I'm about to share the inspiring journey of Mailchimp, a testament to the power of patient growth.
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