{"id":1031361,"date":"2026-08-27T07:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031361"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:30:14","slug":"as-startups-go-public-etsa-jury-asks-when-does-a-startup-cease-to-be-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/as-startups-go-public-etsa-jury-asks-when-does-a-startup-cease-to-be-one\/","title":{"rendered":"As startups go public, ETSA jury asks: When does a startup cease to be one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many Indian startups go public at early stages, the definition of startups is starting to change. <\/p>\n<p>Do you consider a public market company a startup, or do those not qualify? That was the big debate when the jury met to decide the next cohort of winners for The Economic Times Startup Awards 2026. <\/p>\n<p>The jury\u2019s deliberations narrowed the field to three contenders: wealthtech platform Groww, ecommerce marketplace Meesho and space launch vehicle maker Skyroot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many Indian startups go public at early stages, the definition of startups is starting to change. Do you consider a public market company a startup, or do those not qualify? That was the big debate when the jury met to decide the next cohort of winners for The Economic Times Startup Awards 2026. The jury\u2019s deliberations narrowed the field to three contenders: wealthtech platform Groww, ecommerce marketplace Meesho and space launch vehicle maker Skyroot.<\/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-1031361","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\/1031361","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=1031361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031381,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031361\/revisions\/1031381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}