{"id":275,"date":"2017-04-11T14:05:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T14:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upreports.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2022-11-29T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T11:12:13","slug":"startup-failure-rate-india-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.upreports.com\/blog\/startup-failure-rate-india-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fault in Our IT Companies – A Critical Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dollar-eyed entrepreneurs are dreaming about building the next startup that will raise millions and become a brand like Amazon and Uber. The humble ones are thinking of starting online businesses that will create an additional stream of income and maybe one day help them escape the drudgery of 9 to 5 jobs. But a big chunk of such startup dreams across the world is going to perish, with India playing a big role in it. And the reason won\u2019t be that startup or online business ideas lack potential.<\/p>\n

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This post from Quartz Media says around 1000 startups died in the last 2 years only. Kris Gopalakrishnan (co-founder of Infosys) also said that only 5-10% of startups scale up and almost 70% will fail. Please notice Mr. Gopalakrishnan only spoke about startups. Add online businesses into the purview and the number will grow even bigger. Our team members have collectively spent over 20 years building, scaling, and analyzing online businesses, and think that Indian IT companies are failing a breed of entrepreneurs. To throw light on the same, we wrote a post which covers:<\/p>\n