????91springboard于2013年1月開業(yè),，目前已有38家公司入住,，出租率為50%。這家公司提供五種套餐,，最低的為每天500印度盧比（約49.4元人民幣）,，提供10小時(shí)辦公時(shí)間；最高的為每月9999印度盧比（約1235.4元人民幣）,，可住宿,，辦公時(shí)間不限，而且有專人提供前臺(tái)服務(wù),。

????贊丹?古普塔是入住91 springboard的創(chuàng)業(yè)者之一,，他說(shuō)自己花了幾個(gè)月時(shí)間來(lái)找辦公場(chǎng)地。他看過(guò)的地方不是會(huì)停電,，就是漏水,，市政當(dāng)局甚至宣布其中一座大樓為危房，而另一個(gè)地方還兼做寵物店,。古普塔編寫了一個(gè)屏蔽垃圾信息的手機(jī)應(yīng)用程序,，他說(shuō)：“這個(gè)地方對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)很有價(jià)值?！?/p>

????查瓦拉指出,，要想盈利，91sprinboard的出租率至少要達(dá)到80%,，但他們很樂(lè)觀,。他們已經(jīng)在考慮把業(yè)務(wù)發(fā)展到另外兩個(gè)地方，同時(shí)還計(jì)劃設(shè)立一筆初期投資基金,。他說(shuō),，和2007年開辦專項(xiàng)咨詢公司時(shí)不同的是，現(xiàn)在每個(gè)月都會(huì)有幾家初創(chuàng)型公司前來(lái)詢價(jià),，而且情況一直如此,。查瓦拉問(wèn)到：“靠直接和間接外商投資，印度的GDP還能增長(zhǎng)多久呢,？我們得在內(nèi)部實(shí)現(xiàn)發(fā)展,。”

????星期天的這次活動(dòng)以喝酒比賽開場(chǎng),，組織活動(dòng)的公司名叫Nurture Talent,。阿米特?格羅弗是這家公司的創(chuàng)始人之一。他說(shuō),，今年他們將為2.5萬(wàn)人舉辦300場(chǎng)活動(dòng),，所有活動(dòng)的目的都是幫助參與者創(chuàng)業(yè)。這些舉措表明,，印度的創(chuàng)業(yè)者網(wǎng)絡(luò)正日漸成熟,。

????潘卡吉?杰恩在起步期投資公司500 Startups負(fù)責(zé)審查印度的初創(chuàng)型企業(yè),。他說(shuō)：“曾在美國(guó)科技領(lǐng)域打拼并創(chuàng)業(yè)的人來(lái)到了印度，這為印度生態(tài)系統(tǒng)的發(fā)展提供了幫助,?！苯芏骶褪沁@些跨國(guó)流動(dòng)人員中最顯眼的一位——他2010年來(lái)到印度，參與創(chuàng)建了Startup Weekend,。這是一家專門組織創(chuàng)業(yè)者活動(dòng)的機(jī)構(gòu),，目的是讓他們?cè)?4個(gè)小時(shí)內(nèi)組建起公司。

????聯(lián)合組織人亞汀?薩庫(kù)爾稱,，Startup Weekend在三年時(shí)間里舉辦了超過(guò)16場(chǎng)活動(dòng),，“業(yè)務(wù)重點(diǎn)正在向較小的城市轉(zhuǎn)移?！边@個(gè)機(jī)構(gòu)正計(jì)劃為女性創(chuàng)業(yè)者舉辦一次活動(dòng),。在印度，創(chuàng)業(yè)界仍由男性主導(dǎo),。在Nurture Talent舉辦的這次活動(dòng)中,，95%以上的參與者都是男性。的確,，獲得成功的印度初創(chuàng)型企業(yè)大多集中在網(wǎng)絡(luò)領(lǐng)域，而且男性在印度工程行業(yè)占據(jù)著主導(dǎo)地位,。印度理工學(xué)院（Indian Institutes of Technology）是印度的國(guó)家級(jí)工程學(xué)府,，競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力很強(qiáng)。在這里,，入學(xué)新生中女性的比重不足10%,。

錢、錢,、錢

????印度上午創(chuàng)業(yè)者面臨的最大挑戰(zhàn)是籌集資金,，這個(gè)問(wèn)題的嚴(yán)重性甚至有可能超過(guò)基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施。就風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資資金而言,，印度遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)落后于硅谷,。Nasscom提供的數(shù)據(jù)顯示，2012年,，美國(guó)成立了大約1.5萬(wàn)家由機(jī)構(gòu)出資的初創(chuàng)型科技企業(yè),，以色列成立了約800家，而印度只成立了區(qū)區(qū)150家,。

????人們正在設(shè)法把創(chuàng)業(yè)者,、資金和資源聯(lián)系在一起。Nasscom最近啟動(dòng)了一個(gè)名為10000 Start-ups的項(xiàng)目,，目標(biāo)是今后10年在國(guó)內(nèi)設(shè)立1萬(wàn)家由機(jī)構(gòu)出資的初創(chuàng)公司,。首輪申請(qǐng)?jiān)?月初到5月末之間進(jìn)行,。近4千家初創(chuàng)型企業(yè)提交了申請(qǐng)，申請(qǐng)內(nèi)容或?yàn)樘焓官Y金,，或?yàn)榉趸髦械囊粋€(gè)位置,，或二者兼而有之。申請(qǐng)企業(yè)中約70名在新德里工作的創(chuàng)業(yè)者應(yīng)邀到91 springboard參加了和投資者的見面活動(dòng),。

????據(jù)Nasscom介紹,，印度的天使投資生態(tài)系統(tǒng)相當(dāng)有活力——其中有大約1千名投資者。除了高凈值個(gè)人,，兩大天使投資組織——Indian Angel Network和Mumbai Angels擁有數(shù)百名成員,。行業(yè)網(wǎng)站YourStory.in提供的數(shù)據(jù)顯示，2013年第二季度,，印度出現(xiàn)了70筆風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資和天使投資,，價(jià)值估計(jì)為2.70億美元（16.68億元人民幣）。其中,，有30筆投資屬于種子期投資,。

????91springboard opened in January 2013 and is now at 50% occupancy with 38 tenant companies. It offers five different packages, ranging from a day package that costs Rs. 500 (~$8) for 10 hours of desk time to a resident package that costs Rs. 9,999 (~$200) per month for unlimited desk time and the services of a "live receptionist."

????Chandan Gupta, an entrepreneur who rents space at 91, says he looked for a coworking space for months. Spaces he tried to rent had issues with power outages and water logging; city authorities had even condemned one building. Another served as a part-time pet store. "I get value out of this space," says Gupta, who has created a mobile phone app that blocks spam.

????Chawla says 91sprinboard will need to reach at least 80% occupancy to make a profit, but they're optimistic. They're already looking to expand to two more spaces and are planning to start an early-stage investment fund. As opposed to 2007, when he started his boutique investment business, Chawla says he now gets several inquires a month from startups. And he sees that trend continuing. "How long will GDP growth rely on FII or FDI?" he asks. "We need to get some internal growth going."

????Sunday's event -- organized by a company called Nurture Talent -- opens with a drinking contest. Amit Grover, one of Nurture Talent's founders, says that this year, they'll organize 300 events for 25,000 participants, all on preparing participants to become entrepreneurs. Such efforts are a sign that India's entrepreneurial networks are maturing.

????"The influx of people who have experience in the tech and startup world in the United States moving to India has helped move the ecosystem forward," says Pankaj Jain, who vets Indian startups for the early stage investment firm 500 Startups. Jain is one of the most visible of these transplants -- he came to India in 2010 to help launch Startup Weekend, an event franchise that brings would-be entrepreneurs together to create a business in 54 hours.

????Over the course of three years, Startup Weekend has held more than 16 events, says co-organizer Yatin Thakur. "The focus is shifting towards smaller cities," Thakur says. In addition to events in smaller towns, Startup Weekend is looking at an event for women entrepreneurs. In India, entrepreneurship remains male-dominated. At the Nurture Talent event, more than 95% of the crowd was male. Indeed, most of India's startup success stories are online businesses, and men dominate the engineering world in India. At the Indian Institutes of Technology, India's highly competitive state engineering school, less than 10% of the entering class is female.

Money, money, money

????Perhaps even more than infrastructure, the biggest challenge for entrepreneurs in India is scoring funding. When it comes to venture capital funding, India lags far behind Silicon Valley. According to Nasscom, the U.S. produced around 15,000 institutionally funded tech startups in 2012, Israel produced about 800, and India produced a paltry 150.

????There are efforts underway to connect entrepreneurs with funding and resources. Nasscom recently launched a project called 10,000 Start-ups, with the goal of producing 10,000 institutionally funded startups in India over the next 10 years. The first round of applications ran from early April through the end of May. Nearly 4,000 startups applied either for angel funding, a spot in an incubator, or both. Out of these applications, about 70 entrepreneurs based in Delhi were invited for a meet-and-greet event with investors at 91springboard.

????India has a fairly robust angel investment ecosystem -- about a thousand investors, according to Nasscom. In addition to high net worth individuals, two prominent angel networks, the Indian Angel Network and Mumbai Angels, have several hundred members between them. In the second quarter of 2013, according to industry site YourStory.in, there were 70 venture capital and angel deals worth an estimated $270 million in India. Out of these, 30 deals were at the seed stage..