Being an entrepreneur in India is finally becoming cool, say the founders and investors in the burgeoning startup tech scene in Delhi. That new caché is in contrast to decades of the mindset that young business people should strive to work for large branded conglomerates and avoid taking risks creating new ventures or joining early stage tech firms.
The sentiment was repeated throughout the weekend at a startup business competition called Startup Weekend Delhi, which featured 15 teams that spend 54 hours hashing out web and mobile startup ideas, culminating in back to back 5 -minute pitches before judges on Sunday night. Some of the winners of the pitch-fest included a cell phone incentive program around sanitation company Poop Rewards, a new type of gesture-based kiosk from Kinesis, and a mobile app to test glasses on a photo of faces called Spexy.
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