In an earlier post on entrepreneurship, I mentioned how “the “burden” of government can be very heavy – which is why it takes 11 steps on an average, to start a business in India. Not just that, these 11 steps take about 89 days on an average! In that same post, I also wrote: “I have nothing against the government trying to help entrepreneurs. It should; it must”. What exactly did I mean by that?
Did I mean that the government should give handouts to entrepreneurs – or somehow select potential …
Category: Entrepreneurship
How can the government help me? Challenging the “mai-baap sarkaar”
Over the last few days, I have had the extraordinary opportunity to address literally hundreds of students and youngsters at workshops across the country on entrepreneurship. Can you guess the one common refrain that has taken me by surprise? It is a question that invariably gets asked in during the open Q&A session – tentatively at first – then supported by more voices.
The question is simple: “What can the government do for us?” My instinctive response to such a question is to relate the Reagan quip, “I am from the …