It is interesting to note that most of the first generation startups in the US and also in China were bootstrapped.
The Indian Startup Ecosystem — Something isn’t right
Nish Rao
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Entrepreneurship is deeply rooted in risk-taking and this excessive reliance on “funded-startups” is worrisome.

Onboarding people to your service/product by luring them through freebies and discounts is questionable, unsustainable most importantly unethical.

There are startups building army of delivery-boys, it is probably good that the unskilled are getting employed but this is just short term. I wonder, how can these be tagged as startups? How are they any different from existing courier services? What is a startup anyways? Can I open a Paan ki dukaan and deliver paan through an app and call it startup? I hope not.