New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- 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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India's startup ecosystem does not have an innovation deficit; it has a friction problem. With more than 200,000 startups recognized by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and over 100 unicorn...