CEO of Indiagames.com says Indian start-ups should look to Israel for guidance

Posted on September 11, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
Category: Business Comments

Indian flagVijay Anand at Startup Musings interviewed Vishal Gondal, CEO of Indiagames.com, and asked him how US and Israeli startups have been so successful in establishing their “value proposition,” when India struggles with this issue.

Gondal explains that both the US and Israeli have manpower shortages so that when they build a company, they have to be as efficient as possible, and develop tools and systems that take on many of the tasks. The population in India is so large, that problems are often solved by “Throwing more people at it.” He describes the typical Israeli startup:

In countries such as Israel, a country which one must surely visit, if only to just observe the way the ecosystem churns. When two guys get together and they simply can’t afford to hire more people, let alone bad hires, but need to build a business which will make them millionaires, there aren’t too many options left, rather than to innovate everything about how the team thinks, functions and processes things.

It’s interesting to think that our lack of manpower may actually work to our advantage…

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  • Miriam,

    It's interesting to be quoted, but I'd like to make a small correction. It wasnt quite an interview. It was more of a discussion over a casual meet.

    India does have its own tit bits of variations, that I am not sure if we could adopt a solution that works elsewhere. But there are certainly things to learn from a lot of places.. israel being definitely one.
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