The evolution of The Economic Times Startup Awards parallels the growth of India\u2019s startup ecosystem, said Satyan Gajwani, chairman of Times Internet, in his welcome address at the event celebrating the country\u2019s most coveted accolades for entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the early years of the awards, startup success often depended on the blessings of a few big venture capital firms–that\u2019s changed,\u201d said Gajwani. \u201cStartups have become part of India’s investing fabric. Teachers, engineers, small business owners, ordinary Indians are trusting you with their hard-earned savings. That\u2019s a tremendous privilege; also, a huge responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The evolution of The Economic Times Startup Awards parallels the growth of India\u2019s startup ecosystem, said Satyan Gajwani, chairman of Times Internet, in his welcome address at the event celebrating the country\u2019s most coveted accolades for entrepreneurship. \u201cIn the early years of the awards, startup success often depended on the blessings of a few big venture capital firms–that\u2019s changed,\u201d said Gajwani. \u201cStartups have become part of India’s investing fabric. Teachers, engineers, small business owners, ordinary Indians are trusting you with their hard-earned savings. That\u2019s a tremendous privilege; also, a huge responsibility.\u201d<\/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-971280","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\/971280","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=971280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}