Business Today's Taslima Khan spoke to serial entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala, who was in Delhi along with Mayank Kumar, former investment professional at venture firm Bertelsmann India Investments.
Education start-ups make a comeback, displaying greater variety and attracting considerable funding.
Online grocery is hot. Hundreds of players have jumped in. Several hundred million dollars were invested in 2015 alone. But it has also been a graveyard for start-ups.
India's Internet economy, despite the hype and brouhaha, is still nascent and has miles to go, say some of the country's top digital entrepreneurs at the Business Today MindRush.
Panellists KBS Anand, Sunil Duggal and Jayadev Galla disclosed their strategies on handling relationships between professionals and promoters and what looks like the way forward for them.
The opportunity for internet businesses is huge, considering the fact that the size of the Indian internet economy is $30 billion.
The decision to buy Exclusively is no doubt a smart move for Snapdeal, which has built its marketplace bottom-up, strengthening category after category.
True, today's entrepreneurs have the money, lots of it. But I think what is the most compelling thing driving investments in start-ups is the need to stay in the know of new technologies.
Its strategy goes against that of close rivals Flipkart and Snapdeal, which have mostly been associated with smaller investments in start-ups, a number of them being acqui-hires or team acquisitions.
Zuckerberg is clearly trying to leverage the IIT brand to push internet.org and let it gain mass momentum
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