{"id":1018183,"date":"2026-07-01T11:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018183"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:04:54","slug":"in-the-age-of-ai-mentorship-is-the-new-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/in-the-age-of-ai-mentorship-is-the-new-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"In the age of AI, mentorship is the new capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, there are more than 150 million startups in active mode. As of March 31, 2026, India has over 2.23 lakh DPIIT-recognised startups, with over 55,200 entities registered in FY 2025\u201326 alone. The actual figure will be much higher.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, one major caveat. More than 90 percent fail to reach cruising altitude, shattering both ambitions and wallets in the delusional process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, there are more than 150 million startups in active mode. As of March 31, 2026, India has over 2.23 lakh DPIIT-recognised startups, with over 55,200 entities registered in FY 2025\u201326 alone. The actual figure will be much higher. There is, however, one major caveat. More than 90 percent fail to reach cruising altitude, shattering both ambitions and wallets in the delusional process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018183","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018184,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018183\/revisions\/1018184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}