How to start manufacturing in India?

I geniually want to understand why we are behind in manufacturing ? Although I'm from commerce background but I would love to know how does one start manufacturing business in India ? What type of engineers you need ? Honestly I don't have any clue but if any has some information pls discuss here.

Absolutely sad to see the state of the startups, most of them. I am a founder myself, and this is a post with equal disappointment with myself as much as it is for anyone else who relates. Look at all these companies that have raised shit tons of capital, and now make a fraction of money that has been invested in them. The raised money is spent on outsized, non business sense making acquisition costs, only to keep repeating it till the tap runs dry. Then when all stakeholders get bored, the service quality plummets, the employees are fired and whole sectors are admonished as being bad. But, my question is, which sector where large sums of money was invested in early days have come out with flying colours. Fucking nothing ! Edtech, proptech, agritech, ecommerce etc. etc. etc. kuch bhi nahi. Is there any sector where a startup which has raised in the 100s of millions in the first 5 years have actually built a sustainable business at any scale ? Then scaling down, isse acha, scale slowly. The worst part of this whole drama, is pushing the innovation wheel backward and destroying customer sentiment. Isse acha, raise less money inititally, build slowly, and only scale when the market is ready. Artifical growth makes no sense, unless you have a treasure chest that shall never run out. Even in that case, spend the money on assets and not on random acquisition costs, direct or indirect. As founders, let's do better, nahi ?

I am starting a D2C fashion brand. Haven't been able to arrange funds from any sources. In a way, it's a chicken and egg problem in market conditions like this. Funding ke liye traction chahiye and traction ke liye funding chahiye. Need 15 lacs to get things off the ground. Considering the minimum order requirements and marketing expense. Do you think it would be a good idea to do crowdfunding for my startup? Any help / insights would be highly appreciated 🙏

For me it was always startups and now looking at the landscape I think it’s very hard. For 8 years, I just wasted my time. Anything I am building is failing. Couldn’t raise any funds, non of my products reached mass market or gain enough profits. Have skills but non to utilise on! Indian B2C is extremely hard, and even though people think Saas is great, bad news guys, Indian business rather use excel than pay for jira. There is a saying now - “Easier to earn a dollar than a rupee”. Have meet so many founders and VCs. Most of them lost touch of reality. Either moved to US or on leave from their own startups. Only think I know is going through a complete mental breakdown and no one to look up to. My gf left last year, can’t even get any jobs in this market neither can build something useful.

I am ready to put more than 70 hours to start and run my own business. Looking for some ideas with certain criteria I have in my mind 1. Scalability - Biz should be scalable enough to reach 100 cr annual turnover, fine if takes mid to long term 2. Margin - should have healthy margin, not looking for VC money to run it 3. Location - setup and operation can be done from anywhere 4. Non-tech - I am not a tech person, so the Biz should be done without hightech IT infra as I want to run the show on my own. Sourcing ideas for myself, because I want to start something my own And for other non-tech people, who are also in the same boat as I am. Let’s see if we get some good ideas here!

Hi Guys I am planning to take 2-3 yrs break to start something of my own. Currently I work as engineering manager / Lead developer. My plan is to take 2-3 yrs break and try my own manufacturing business. I will continue on that path if it works out otherwise will be back to IT. My question is did anyone try taking a break to start something of their own? How does Indian companies take such breaks?

Is it a good idea to start leather footwear and goods manufacturing for export in 2024?

Hi folks, I'm Aadit, Co-Founder & CEO at Zepto. We're one of India's fastest growing consumer internet companies and are today present across 10+ cities in the country. I'd love to chat with you folks about my journey in building Zepto, my thoughts on the quick commerce space, organization building, amongst other things. Ask away!