Tag Archive for 'incubator'

Building a Telecom Equipment Startup from India

Sujai Karampuri sent me his recent piece, Ground realities from a technology product company in India .

Sujai’s company Sloka Telecom is building Wimax base stations, and recently, they have won an important validation in France at Saint Medard en Jalles (5.8 GHz Wimax deployment).

I know that Sujai is pounding the doors of the VCs to get Sloka funded. His frustrations are real, and reflective of the situation and ground realities in India. Continue reading ‘Building a Telecom Equipment Startup from India’

Early Stage Technology Entrepreneurship and Incubators in India

My first experience of technology entrepreneurship in India was in 1994 while I was still a grad student at MIT. The most vivid memory I have of that experience is that it took me 6 months to get a phone line. It was before wireless. It was, most certainly, before venture capital in India.

Things have obviously come a long way. Last summer, I did a body of research on the Indian entrepreneurship scene, as I watched huge amounts of capital finding its way to India. Through that work, I also came to the conclusion that there is way too much money, and not enough fundable deals, and that India needs more incubator funds.

A year has gone by. Not a whole lot has changed.

So I chose to revisit the topic of Incubators in India in a series of posts, on which I would like to hear from entrepreneurs, investors, incubator managers, and whomever else in the ecosystem with meaningful input.

Here are the posts:

I look forward to your comments.