Youth on a mission to boost startups

Visakhapatnam: After graduating from BIT Institute of Technology, Hindupur, the 21-year-old, Akshay Gutteti from Khammam thought of doing something different post-graduation. Armed with patriotism and jest for learning, Akshay decided to tell the youth all over the country on how to become self-sufficient and become an entrepreneur to be part of building India.

• Akshay who reached Vizag says he will be covering 30-odd cities in India within a span of one year
• Besides telling youth to turn entrepreneurs, he will also study the problems faced in start-up villages and offer solutions

His special focus has been Startup villages in India. He put his novel thoughts into action and started off from his home on a bicycle on February 15 and reached Visakhapatnam last week after meeting several college and school students and startup village entrepreneurs on his way.

He said he would cover the entire India in a year’s time in two phases with a motive to find out why the Startup villages failed to take off in the country. "I firmly believe that super small startups can resolve real-time problems, and by helping them, we can be a part of country's development.

Working with many startups made me understand how the Startups evolve, and how the problems can be solved. So I started helping entrepreneurs in solving their problems’’ Akshay said. He said over 80 per cent Startup villages flopped across the country for various reasons and lack of support from the government.

In a bid to support them, he along with his friends started an initiative called ‘The Indian Startup Tour’ to meet fellow entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, policy makers and government officials, to research on startups, incubators, accelerators, educational institutions and co-working spaces across the country.