New Delhi, Oct. 7 -- As entrepreneurial energy plays an ever-larger role in India's success story, we present a package of weekly opinion articles by members of TiE, a global organization for startups and entrepreneurs. From the rural reach of India's startup revolution and the easing of capital and compliance challenges to the role of angel investors, how startups and micro, small, and medium enterprises must grow together and how best to track innovation, TiE authors cover a wide spectrum of relevant issues.

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In 2000, when we started MeritTrac, the Indian startup ecosystem as we know it today did not exist. There were no incubators, very limited institutional funding avenues and almost no established playbook for first-time entrepr...