“Next two years will be carnage in the Indian startup ecosystem Abhishek, don’t even think of coming back” — said a bold voice on the other line. My heart sank. It was one of the investors from a top 10 VC fund in India. While my twitter feed was full of VC gyan — ‘Recession is the best time to start a company’, ‘We are open for business’, and ‘We’re closing more deals than before’, I was getting this contrarian advice on a 1-on-1 mentor-ship call. I trusted it more for obvious reasons. He fu...

“Next two years will be carnage in the Indian startup ecosystem Abhishek, don’t even think of coming back” — said a bold voice on the other line. My heart sank. It was one of the investors from a top 10 VC fund in India. While my twitter feed was full of VC gyan — ‘Recession is the best time to start a company’, ‘We are open for business’, and ‘We’re closing more deals than before’, I was getting this contrarian advice on a 1-on-1 mentor-ship call. I trusted it more for obvious reasons. He fu...