Green House Ventures ropes in Nasscom as partner, Google's Rajan Anandan as Mentor (Economic Times)

Gurgaon-based Green House Ventures Accelerator has brought on board Indian software industry association Nasscom as a collaborative partner and roped in Google's Rajan Anandan as a mentor to boost its year-long acceleration programme. Through Nasscom's 10,000 Startups Program, GHV will get access to a pool of startups. "Our partnership with GHV will accelerate startups with a comprehensive array of market research services, go-to-market assistance, funding support and educational/networking opportunities,...

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India calling: NRI entrepreneurs flocking back to homeland (Entrepreneur India)

NRIs Returning to India “The Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem was the triggering point for my return to India in January 2011,” shares Vikram Upadhyaya, Chief Mentor and Accelerator Evangelist, GHV Accelerator. A Graduate from University of Tokyo, Upadhyaya started his entrepreneurial journey way back in 1999. Besides being a serial entrepreneur, Upadhyaya has a diversified experience in handling Japanese offshore projects to global corporate strategy and specialises in new ventures turnaround. When asked about his decision to return...

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Why should startups join an accelerator programme? (ENTREPRENEUR INDIA)

Starting up is a challenging journey. The odds are stacked up against you. The chances of failure are significantly higher than success. And that is true the world over. This is because the startup is dealing with a number of risks – concept, market, product, etc., and the founders have to navigate all these odds to be able to succeed. As my friend RehanYar Khan, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners, says, “For a startup to succeed, various functions such as product development, pricing, technology, operations, customer service, marketing,...

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Why Y Combinator type models won't work in India (ENTREPRENEUR INDIA)

India has seen the emergence of several accelerators and incubators in the past few years. Some of them are doing an excellent job, but many others are still getting their act together. Many of the accelerators and incubators are already running 3-5 batches, and have now started realizing that blindly copying the Silicon Valley style accelerator models will not work in the Indian context. Most of the accelerators and incubators, who replicated the Y-Combinator model lost precious time, and as is with most organisations, they now find it difficult...

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