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India doesn't innovate. How can India people innovate when they live in Garbage filled, car congested, slum infested, and highway deprived neighborhoods such a

India doesn't innovate. How can India people innovate when they live in Garbage filled, car congested, slum infested, and highway deprived neighborhoods such as...most of the cities in India (Yes, I've been to Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai within the past year) I laugh when people want to go start startups in India. Go ahead, live in a 3rd world country and try to focus on your startup.

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wicknicks 16y ago
I think you already have the answer to your question: Where to innovate? A: Fix the "Garbage filled, car congested, slum infested, and highway deprived neighborhoods" on which 1B people depend on. Recently, there has been a good rise in innovative projects aiming to help people in different sectors of the country. Given, the size of the country and lack of infrastructure -- these don't get a lot of popularity. But it is interesting to see solid steps of tiny progress.
- chailatte 16y ago
  What they need in India is to get rid of the corrupt government, which keeps stuffing its own pocket with bulk of foreign investment money, and complacency from its population. Looks like rising gas/food prices and shrinking emerging market investments will force the people in India to action anyways.
  - wicknicks 16y ago
    India has greater problems than a corrupt government. Being neck deep into religion, ancient caste systems, famines and natural disasters, even a righteous government can't do much. I am personally quite excited with the Indian youth (<25 yrs old). They are making enormous efforts to change things. They are going against social norms, and helping each other, innovating, thinking (which is not common in a country which religion has been the primary solution to everything for 2000 years).
zaidf 16y ago
What exactly are you arguing here? That no one should ever goto India to do a start-up? That due to the conditions you describe(mostly true, I must admit), you cannot build a start-up and a flourishing company in India? Look, I think you can have a fair debate about whether the odds of a start-up succeeding is better in India or place X. But Infosys, Wipro, Reliance etc. were all once start-ups before they became billion dollar companies.
skbohra123 16y ago
May be India can't innovate as much as America do at this moment for some reasons. I will not write down why that is so, but to tell you something, India may not innovate but Indians can, that's the reason why America, England are so keen to bring up Startup Visa.
c1sc0 16y ago
I can't say anything about India, but for China that's absolutely not true. Save up for a while & live like a king in China or continue living a shitty middle-class life in the "1st world"? As for focus: I've done more work in 2 days out of the middle of nowhere in China than I've done from my comfortable 1st world homepad (Switzerland) with all its distractions.
zatara 16y ago
How is that different from the US or Europe some 100 years ago? These are all fixable problems, and it really doesn't take that long (check Germany between the 2 World Wars).

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wicknicks 16y ago

I think you already have the answer to your question: Where to innovate? A: Fix the "Garbage filled, car congested, slum infested, and highway deprived neighborhoods" on which 1B people depend on. Recently, there has been a good rise in innovative projects aiming to help people in different sectors of the country. Given, the size of the country and lack of infrastructure -- these don't get a lot of popularity. But it is interesting to see solid steps of tiny progress.

chailatte 16y ago
What they need in India is to get rid of the corrupt government, which keeps stuffing its own pocket with bulk of foreign investment money, and complacency from its population. Looks like rising gas/food prices and shrinking emerging market investments will force the people in India to action anyways.
- wicknicks 16y ago
  India has greater problems than a corrupt government. Being neck deep into religion, ancient caste systems, famines and natural disasters, even a righteous government can't do much. I am personally quite excited with the Indian youth (<25 yrs old). They are making enormous efforts to change things. They are going against social norms, and helping each other, innovating, thinking (which is not common in a country which religion has been the primary solution to everything for 2000 years).

zaidf 16y ago

What exactly are you arguing here? That no one should ever goto India to do a start-up? That due to the conditions you describe(mostly true, I must admit), you cannot build a start-up and a flourishing company in India? Look, I think you can have a fair debate about whether the odds of a start-up succeeding is better in India or place X. But Infosys, Wipro, Reliance etc. were all once start-ups before they became billion dollar companies.

skbohra123 16y ago

May be India can't innovate as much as America do at this moment for some reasons. I will not write down why that is so, but to tell you something, India may not innovate but Indians can, that's the reason why America, England are so keen to bring up Startup Visa.

c1sc0 16y ago

I can't say anything about India, but for China that's absolutely not true. Save up for a while & live like a king in China or continue living a shitty middle-class life in the "1st world"? As for focus: I've done more work in 2 days out of the middle of nowhere in China than I've done from my comfortable 1st world homepad (Switzerland) with all its distractions.

zatara 16y ago

How is that different from the US or Europe some 100 years ago? These are all fixable problems, and it really doesn't take that long (check Germany between the 2 World Wars).