The Startup Guy aka Vijay Anand founder of the Startup Centre on the Indian Startup Ecosystem — where to next?
India is the third largest startup ecosystem in the world, what’s going right, and what needs to be tweaked? I speak to Vijay Anand, AKA The Startup Guy, founder of The Startup Centre in Chennai. He is an entrepreneur and has been mentoring startups in India for the past 10 years.
So In this episode we talk about the state of the Indian startup ecosystem. Talk about finding India’s identity — China has processes & innovation, Germany does precision machinery, US and Israel drive innovation, Japan has quality. What is India’s story? The involvement of India’s government — the good & bad.
Talks about If someone wants to start a venture today, what areas should they focus on? talks about the 2 kinds of entrepreneur, overvaluation of startups, ethics, blockchain, dogs!, space travel, super human beings and what does he go for — the person or the idea? And much more.
In this conversation we also talk about:
- Differences in the Indian eco-system v Israel eco-system
— Big observation about Indian startups
— Indian domestic market v global market
— Bill Gates & Mark Zuckerberg chat
— How do you unlearn
— Looking at a person as an asset not a liability
— The 3rd wave of startups
— How to find co-founders
— What gets Vijay out of bed?
Links
https://in.linkedin.com/in/vijayanands
https://twitter.com/vijayanands
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