@Sahil: I know that feeling. Keep going.

@santhosh: Thanks.

I agree with what you say. I also agree that its not going to happen overnight. Also most of the cases you are mentioning are about Internet companies. The internet is possibly the furthest reaching media platform that exists. If we cant effectively leverage that, are we doing something wrong?

About Hiring People:
Lets forego the US for a moment. Look at Europe or even Israel. Even look at Malaysia. I was chatting with the Malaysian Innovation Ministry and they were one step away from breaking into tears that no one joins a startup. The government has gone to the point of giving away free money for big corporates to setup offices in Malaysia and Singapore and its hurting smaller companies.

Even take Israel. There are very few engineers there.

Show me a company where the founders can roll up their sleeves and write code, and still need trouble. I’ll then agree then we have a problem. Most companies want to play manager from day one.

About VCs: VCs will never invest early at a stage where its nothing more than an idea. No way, no how. Things are not going to change. We better learn to live with it and work around it.

Support from Fellow people:
China speaks Chinese. We speak English. That’s a problem. Perhaps its time we start actually understanding some of our pain points and build solutions rather than indianizing existing solutions?
We are not without examples. Look at Shaadi.com. Do you use Shaadi or do you use Match.com? Do you use Yatra/Cleartrip/Make my trip or Expedia.com? Do you use 70mm, or Blockbuster.com?

If there is a “relevant” solution, I don’t see a issue here.

Global Approach: This is one I’d agree whole heartedly. We need a global approach. But there are lessons we need to learn. We can only go fight the giants outside our doorstep, once we have strengthened ourselves. People are going to fiercely guard their turfs and we better use strategies like what Subex did (go everywhere but the US, grow and then hit the US) to survive.

I’d also say that Global users come with global troubles. One that has built a product and attracted beta customers would know this issue. All the feedbacks and bug fix list that will come in, it will be easier to turn around with your initial customers here in India.

We need a blogger community to replace what Techcrunch does, for the Indian community. Pluggd.in, Webyantra, Contentsutra and are all heading on the right direction and if any, Pluggd.in will uniquely position themselves to play the Techcrunch of India. There is also this business blogger network that is going on lately who are working towards building a vibrant blogger community. We should be pitching towards the same goal.

I think I’ve answered it all.

@Shashank
Lets stop finger pointing. Lets pitch in some way or the other to solve the challenges around us. Volunteer for creating civic sense, spread the good word of helping opportunity deprived, Involve in a school for teaching kids… These are small ways where evry one can make a difference…
I am leading a group of 50+ like minded volunteers. We are empowering a rural school http://divyadeepatrust.org near Mysore. From past 2 years, we are able to sustain it and now we are sprinting ahead in all terms. Infrastructure, Corpus Funds, Electricity etc.

Imagine the whole youth of India spending their 2% of their valuable time, money, effort to contribute for inclusive growth.

WE, together going to make it happen.