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India's Start-ups Target Rural Growth for Future Expansion
India's rural areas are becoming a focal point for the country’s burgeoning start-up ecosystem, with innovative companies seeking to harness the untapped potential of its villages. The villages of Haryana, in particular, are emerging as unlikely hubs for creative industries, as start-ups like STAGE are redefining the landscape.
Spotlight on Haryana's Villages
In the small villages surrounding Rohtak, Haryana, farmers' homes are now serving as makeshift movie sets, with a burgeoning film industry taking root. Vinay Singhal, founder of the start-up STAGE, highlights the remarkable transformation: “Since 2019, we’ve made more than 200 Haryanvi films.” The company caters to regional audiences by producing content that reflects local dialects and cultural nuances, with plans to expand its offerings to include other languages.
A Growing Market Opportunity
The push towards rural markets is not unique to STAGE; it mirrors a broader trend among Indian start-ups recognizing the immense potential of the country’s 1.4 billion people. Despite the fact that the majority reside in rural areas, most tech innovations have historically catered to urban consumers. However, investors are increasingly optimistic about rural entrepreneurship, with funding now flowing to ventures targeting these underserved markets.
Changing Investment Landscape
Start-up founder Vinay Singhal notes a shift in investor attitudes: “Five years ago, I didn’t get any money at all. I had to bootstrap the company.” Recent data reveals that VC funds are now actively investing in rural-focused start-ups. Accel Ventures has announced plans to invest up to $1 million in this sector, while other funds, like Unicorn India Ventures, have seen a significant portion of their investments directed towards tier 2 and tier 3 cities.
The Untapped Market
The potential for growth in rural markets is substantial. With two-thirds of India's population living in these areas, the annual spending power of this demographic is approximately $500 billion. Interestingly, the top 20% of rural consumers spend more than half of their urban counterparts, challenging the perception that rural equals poor.
The Rise of Digital Connectivity
A key driver of this rural growth is the increasing penetration of smartphones, with around 450 million users now accessing the internet from outside major cities. Additionally, the advent of user-friendly digital payment systems like UPI has enabled start-ups to reach these consumers more effectively than ever before.
Challenges in Rural Expansion
While opportunities abound, penetrating the rural market presents its own challenges. Price sensitivity among consumers and geographic dispersion complicate distribution. Infrastructure deficiencies remain a significant hurdle, making last-mile delivery a costly endeavor. Companies like Frontier Markets emphasize the importance of building local trust by collaborating with village entrepreneurs to facilitate transactions.
Conclusion
India's rural areas are poised to become the next frontier for start-up growth, with innovative solutions emerging to address the unique challenges of this market. By adapting to local needs and fostering trust within communities, start-ups are not only tapping into a $200 billion market opportunity but are also reshaping the future of India’s economy.
#India's start-ups#rural growth#future expansion#entrepreneurship#innovation#economic development#technology#agriculture
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Good googely moogely somebody get this boy an ADHD evaluation immediately
#omg he's just like me#he has the attention span of a nat#Miles JUST STARTED and he's like 'hurry up 😭😭'#relax pavitr#spiderman#atsv#spider man#marvel#across the spiderverse#pavitr prabhakar#pavitr#spiderman india
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some memes to help me cope because i am god's strongest soldier
#literally school is about to start tomorrow and i have done jackshit today#it's 12am right now but i'm (re)drawing memes#switched back to my old brushes#and uh i guess it's okay? if the quality gets killed it's fine the art was already crusty to begin with lol#literally on the cold dusty floor WHEN are my spider kids going to show up i want more footage i want more pictures#trailer gave us web warriors line up so i'm calling it: web warriors is going to rebel against the spider-verse authority#spider punk#spider byte#spider man india#spiderman india#hobie brown#pavitr prabhakar#miles morales#margo spider byte#spiderman miles morales#spider man across the spider verse#spiderman across the spiderverse#spiderman atsv#spiderman fanart#across the spiderverse#myart
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#i started this ek maheena pehle#bindi kuch zyada badi nahi ho gayi?💀#I'll just erase the edges off ig#thodi choti kareinge bas#tumblr pls don't fuck up the quality#lol this is my first charcoal work#desiblr#desi tumblr#being desi#desi tag#desi humor#hindublr#art#india#desi teen#desi indian#desi aesthetic#desi core#desi#indian aesthetic#hinduism#artworks#artists on tumblr#charcoal#noice#very noice#my art
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I know we all kind of assume Anthy and Akio are Indian because of the brown skin and bindis (Google tells me that while it's less common, men do wear bindis sometimes), and I agree, but also. "Dios" is Spanish, "Anthy" is derived from a Greek word, "Himemiya" is Japanese (I would theorize that her name hasn't always been "Himemiya", though she does seem to have had the name "Anthy" as far back as we're allowed to see into her past), and Akio drives an American car and plays jazz (a style of music that developed in America) over the radio in said car. Also, despite bindis being a Hindu, Jain and Buddhist thing, all the religious shit the two of them have going on (the martyrdom, Akio drawing a comparison between himself and Satan, Ohtori looking like a fucked up Cathedral and Dios appearing to Utena in a church) is Pretty Christian.
I know all of this is probably just a product of the writers not having a concrete idea of where they wanted Akio and Anthy to be from other than "not here" but it implies a lot of travel, which does kind of fit with Dios' whole "trying to rescue Every Girl Ever" thing.
Where do their names come from, anyway? "Dios" sounds like it could have been a name given to him by the people he saved. We never hear hide nor hair of their parents, they're fully irrelevant even by the farthest flashback.
#revolutionary girl utena#anthy himemiya#akio ohtori#shoujo kakumei utena#himemiya anthy#ohtori akio#rgu#sku#if i had to guess#i'd say they were born in india and spent their REALLY early lives there#and then started travelling#i think they've been to europe- maybe italy given anthy's weird obscure knowledge about Cantarella#also if they were the ones who BUILT ohtori (which seems likely given their influence over it)#then i would think they went to France at some point because HOLY ROCOCO BATMAN#and america. akio probably got The Car there.#and then eventually set up shop in Japan for. Reasons.#I don't know what the in-universe reasons could possibly be honestly but there they are#honestly i don't think they adhere to any religion besides the one they're living out.
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my beef w many compilations of mclennon proof is it's all the weakest stuff like cmon guys we need to bust out some truly insane stuff if we want to convince ur average tumblr user. where's the "if I were a girl maybe I could go out and..."? or "HE gave me loving in the palm of my hand *jerking off motion*"? cats named after the lovers they played? if I fell valentines day card with "to paul with love" on it? or paul saying if his dead bestie who again is Literally Dead were back for just ONE SINGLE DAY he'd spend it with him "in bed"? beetles fucking on ram? john thinking dear boy is about him (INCRIMINATING)? any of paul's songs that are genuinely actually truly and accepted to be about john by many (this one, call me back again, best friend.........)? WE HAVE TO GET TO THE HARD HITTERS! we can't just go up to some random guy on the street and bring up india like it's real!
#like listen I love to bust out the red string but if ur trying to convince a regular degular ass person#PUT THE RED STRING DOWN. DON'T MENTION INDIA YOU SOUND CRAZED#I wouldn't even bring up my skywriting by word of mouth analysis or god only knows bc it takes too much red string 💀#you could Maybe bring up just like starting over but I think having to explain the walrus thing would make people shut down immediately
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Protestors from a solidarity protest for Bangladeshi students in Kolkata, India were beaten up, arrested and detained
All states are the same I guess.
#the article is full of lies btw i was there no one broke any security barries#the police just started beating us up out of the blue#its toi so what do you expect but its the only english article i could find#india
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#okay random story time i don't know why im narrating this or how i even stumbled upon this memory rn#but i generally do sad vents in the tags and for a change this is a funny one#so back in highschool (i say highschool but i mean junior college) i used to visit this park near my house a lot#i was an sg kid back then and the thing about parks there is that they're kinda beach-parks and they have the best cycling/running tracks#they're also really massive parks so i used to go often. sometimes bicycling. other times walking. yeah. the park was like my sanctuary#anyway. there are quite a few bike rental areas in the park and there was a cute lil shop next to this one particular rental place#and they sold like biscuits and water and icecreams and stuff and i went there a lot#and on one particular day i went there and there was this guy around my age part timing at that shop#now again this might be culture specific bc i dont see it in india but part timing in uni/pre-uni is pretty common is sg#a lot of shops and restaurants employ teenagers to twenty something ppl for part time jobs... anyway im just adding context#point is that i had walked to the park with my mum that day and she told me to go buy a couple icecreams so i went to the shop#and i saw this guy around my age and like. not to be a simp but this dude was so pretty?#like he saw someone had come to the counter so he looked up and shot a smile and i thought i got slapped by sunlight#i could spend the next several lines going on about his pretty tan skin and his glowing raven eyes but this is pathetic enough so ill stop#anyway he saw me and smiled really wide (customer service smile- i thought to myself) and i smiled back and asked for icecreams or whatever#and then this guy started getting chatty right. so he was all 'you come here (to the park) often right? ive seen you with your bike a lot'#see now. the problem with me is that i always think im bothering people. this poor dude was attempting to make conversation#and i was replying with one word answers#and i wasn't even realizing that he didnt want that. bc he kept asking more questions and i. kept. shutting them down.#then when he gave me the icecream he was all 'are you here alone? icecream alone is no fun... i could keep you company if you want..?'#which. he was being really cute about right. but because im so fucking dense i was all 'oh no i came with my mom actually'#and he went 'aw man' in this really cute but faux sad way which i didnt understand at the time and i left and then#after three full fucking days. i realized this man was tryna hit on me?#and then i went to the park like a week later and he was gone. poof. i even thought of asking the uncle in charge of that place#then i got too embarrassed and chickened out#yeah so turns out my neurodivergence neutralizes any sort of rizz that comes my way#i could've been chilling with a cute boyf rn but no😩 this is my destiny#megumi in the tags
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the way sanghis will cry hinduphobia at any criticism of the indian government but have nothing to say commodification and bastardization of hinduism and hindu spiritualism in the west. like you guys only bring up hinduphobia to suck narendra modi’s toes and silence anyone who doesn’t agree with you.
#exposing myself as an nri with this one. sorry everyone#but the way hindutvas only bring up hinduphobia to justify their own bigotry#and not examine any of their biases.#like even now if they suddenly start caring about cultural appropriation#they won’t outside of their own agenda. it’s just gonna fuel the victim complex#sigh. i’m tired#anti hindutva#desi tag#desiblr#hinduism#india
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you know what they say. ram naam satya hai.
#-> myra text#india#indpol#addn ->#voters of ayodhya this is dedicated to you. love you guys.#this is so ironic that the place that started the whole hindutva nonsense rejected bjp this has got to to be the funniest shit ever#but still it makes sense 1800 crores on a temple but you end up displacing the people who live there#for the sake of fucking adani funded five star hotels#today was a surprisingly funny day
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Pavitr flexing after beating Miles in a fight: HOOAAH!!! YOU FUCKING WISH YOU WERE ME!!! HRGGG!!! TESTOSTERONE IS LEAKING FROM MY PORES AND CREATING THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH!! FUCK WITH ME I DARE YOU!! GORILLA MOUNTAIN AXE MUD AND OTHER MANLY THINGS!!!
Miles, dazed on the floor: i’ll tell your auntie and gf you beat up a random girl
Pavitr. hey hold it,
#y’all are so lucky. i had an entire emo girl pav rant in the tags but i deleted it#anyway pav loves saying shit like this for the laughs and to build up that macho gymbro character which is just an exaggeration of his +#actual personality#you know how depressed men sometimes don’t get therapy and start working out instead?#miles morales#spiderman#spider man#pavitr prabhakar#spiderman india#spider man india#m&m posts
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HI FELLOW IST USER. YOU PROBABLY WILL SEE THIS IN THE MORNING TOMORROW BUT IF YOU'RE STILL AWAKE HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :3 /lh
HEYYAAA FROM INDIAA🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 !!!am awake rn (currently procrastinating on writing this very comic infact!) HI ❗️
#rare to find osc in india#and by rare I do mean 'I have never seen indian osc in my life who actually live here'#so hey#not a chapter#ask#also yes i need to start up abu again#now that boards have ended I have no excuse#also wait op idt mod fits ur dni actually <- very obsessed w/ mha/bnha
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good morning lovelies
#slept like ass#woke up fifty billion times & had scary dreams#dreamt i was chilling with miles from lost in my house & then a bunch of cops broke into my house and started yelling at us#so we had 2 go on the run and it was stressful#but we got to this random street full of hydrangeas and cherry blossoms and the sun was setting and it was pretty#and in the dream i got soooo sleepy so i just laid down on the ground#and i fell asleep and had a different dream inside my dream where i was at a hostel in india#and the ground was covered in pizza so i couldn’t get out of my bed#so i had to eat so so much fucking pizza which was stressful too#And then when i got outside there was no outside it was just the inside of my store i work at. And i had to clock in.#Fuck thattttt man
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Okay Goa is paradise
#seriously#it's like a postcard#also it's 11pm i just arrived and haven't eaten#and i just showed up at a closing restaurant who agreed to make me quick take outs#people are so freaking nice#but tbf it feels like everyone is nice in india#(well almost)#anyway#WHAT A GREAT START OF MY HOLIDAYS#personal#romy's adventures in india
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I also think sometimes we forget David is somewhat racist and ableist via ignorance. The whole Thing in Order of the Sparrow and then him not wanting to "attract diabetics" with candy in the Candy Kingpin episode?? I don't think he means to be and once he knows better he would fix it but goddamn someone needs to tell him this shit isn't ok 😭
#camp camp#david camp camp#i like 2 think that after OotS that max fully chewed him out for that stunt#''jesus fucking christ david you cant dress up as someone elses race thats fucking racist''#and it only kinda then settles in what he did#because david was raised in the 90s and early 2000s when stuff like that was accepted#and when indigenous people were actually called indian#once max (rightfully) starts complaining about ''native american people arent fucking indian IM indian IM from INDIA' we're not the same''#david definitely works 2 educate himself and fix that stuff in himself
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typical alcoholism L: shitting hurt
#stream#like i’m#i can alrdy feel my colon suffering when i wake up tomorrow#but idc fuck u#i miss u weed 😭😭😭 no calories 😭😭😭😭😭#like have i eaten today#a lil#it was lettuce#like ALSKALSKALKALKALKSLA#i also told my mother today how bad the food is in britain when i#told her that u can’t even find jalapeños that aren’t pickled a) & b) celery is to ‘season a ham’ & she started laughing bc it’s so#rediculous like we always bitch abt all the mexican restaunrts bc we live in tx bc NOW ….. A DREAM ……. U DONT KNOW WHAT U MISS TILL ITS GONE#i don’t even eat take away like if i do it’s either chinese or the 1 pizza place i go to#JINI PIZZA IN CARDIFF … BIG SHOUTOUT TO THEIR SPICY WHATEVER#not the one w cajun chicken bc it’s ……. not fucking cajun at all#the chicken tikka is good bc it’s u know#chicken tikka & it’s jini pizza#wait i just realized their logo is a genie#MAYBE IRS PRONOUNCED LIKE GENIE 😭😭😭😭#IVE BEEN CALLING IT GIN-Y THIS ENTIRE TIME#maybe it is jini idk bc i did tell kp the name that i thought was anise but it’s … not & i was like ‘i thought it was feminine’ & he was#like ‘that’s obviously a DUDE’ 😭😭😭😭😭 ALSKLKALKSLAKSLAKSKAL#LIKE SRRRRYYYYYY I DIDNT GROW UP IN INDIA TOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭#i still think it’s so fucking funny that in the police report after the rape the belgian translator translated ‘KP’ as ‘Capi’ so whenever#u see the name ‘Capi’ in the report it’s actually KP ALSKALSKALKSLAKSLAKSLAKSL#i don’t think i ever told him that i’ll have to when i get back bc honestly it’s very funny
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