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Mridul Das

Introvert! • 10m

28,000+ Indian startups shut in 2 years — a 12x spike. That's horrible 🔻🔻🔻 Premature scaling, market saturation & lack of right time funding are killing dreams before they mature. What’s going wrong in our startup ecosystem? Too much hype, not enough fundamentals.

https://medial.app/news/indian-startup-shutdowns-soar-12x-amid-market-reset-d51edc269c3d6

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Saket Sambhav
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ADJUVA LEGAL® • 10m

Need to go back to basics; - Strong unit economics from the start. - Validated product-market fit beyond just early buzz. - Sustainable growth strategies, not just growth-at-all-costs.

SamCtrlPlusAltMan
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OpenAI • 10m

Indian startups still inherently struggle to survive in the longer run

Owl Maniac

Rethink and Breakdow... • 10m

most people just don't have the right guidance or they just don't know what sells. People pick some niche and launch a product only to see no one is willing to pay for it. If they watch some YC videos before starting this would be down by about 90 percent

Anonymous 1

Hey I am on Medial • 10m

A mix of all that plus compliance irregulations

Onepercent

1% • 10m

Lesson learned for investors as well as fools

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