{"id":1010704,"date":"2026-05-29T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010704"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:28:32","slug":"why-founders-across-india-are-signing-up-for-the-one-of-a-kind-startup-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/why-founders-across-india-are-signing-up-for-the-one-of-a-kind-startup-awards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Why founders across India are signing up for the One of a Kind Startup Awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The buzz around the One of a Kind Startup Awards 2026 is only getting louder. Applications are pouring in. The deadline is May 31. And if you haven&#8217;t applied yet, you might want to ask yourself why not. <\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just another award. It&#8217;s not a trophy on a shelf or a badge on a LinkedIn profile. The One of a Kind Startup Awards, presented by The Economic Times and Cashfree Payments, was built specifically for early-stage, internet-first founders. The ones building quietly, moving fast, and solving problems most people haven&#8217;t even noticed yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buzz around the One of a Kind Startup Awards 2026 is only getting louder. Applications are pouring in. The deadline is May 31. And if you haven&#8217;t applied yet, you might want to ask yourself why not. This isn&#8217;t just another award. It&#8217;s not a trophy on a shelf or a badge on a LinkedIn profile. The One of a Kind Startup Awards, presented by The Economic Times and Cashfree Payments, was built specifically for early-stage, internet-first founders. The ones building quietly, moving fast, and solving problems most people haven&#8217;t even noticed yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010705,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010704\/revisions\/1010705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}