What is missing in the letter, is the frank admission that this is a mission which requires the toughest, brightest, bravest and most tenacious of IIT alumni.

What is missing in the letter, is the frank admission that this is a mission which requires the toughest, brightest, bravest and most tenacious of IIT alumni. The "system" here is extremely harsh, byzantine and dangerous. Satyendra Dubey, an IIT-K grad, died because he was exposing corruption in the golden quadrilateral infrastructure project. My Ex-bosses who returned to India from the states to found a startup, were greeted by local MLAs who wanted a cut to allow them to enter the new premises. (They gave the MLAs the figurative finger and had to find alternative arrangements.) If you want to complain about laws and regulation, India is the stuff of legend. Recently the way service tax is calculated was overhauled. Hoo boy. We have an issue with the grey/unregulated economy. Small scale businesses, think a little guy in a village which is up and coming starting a rent-a-car business, often don't pay any tax. Since the GoI can't go after them, its going after people who use these services. Firms now pay their share of Service tax on services received. They also must pay the portion of Service Tax the service provider is supposed to, and apply for a refund. And if the rent-a-car group doesn't have a Tax ID number, well - you wont be getting the refund then. (essentially this is to force people to register) That's just one clause of the Service Tax Act. Then there is the work culture, and the strange tendency of people wanting to be philosopher lords. I do not say its not doable - it is. Every day people manage it, but it must be made clear, that getting people back maybe one thing, they also need to be able to maneuver, finagle, and bull their way through a jungle of difficulties. We need Frontiersmen, more than we need Entrepreneurs.