New Year Bonanza! Facebook to support new start-up businesses in India

The government had earlier announced a series of measures under the Startup India campaign for making simpler regulations, offering some handholding, a few tax breaks, and a fund-of-funds to turn up the startup engine and enable entrepreneurship, technological progress and innovation.

Facebook had announced that they would start a program to help the future entrepreneurs to help them in establishing tech start-ups, developers and students to build products using the high technologies. The focus is mainly to help the women entrepreneur in small businesses and help them generate their business in India. There have been various Start-up initiatives in India which has started with the framework to provide technological advancements in the business. A social media like Facebook helping the entrepreneur develop the new generation of startups having incredible potential. Facebook is committed to helping create economic growth opportunities for startups and skill seekers in India and will continue investing in India’s digital skills of the future.

This initiative of SheLeadsTech began with the view to provide women founders and entrepreneur tools to mentor them, and help them get resources if they have any barrier in building their business. They have helped the women to help them connect, share and grow through more initiatives like #SheMeansBusiness and SheLeadsTech. Through #SheMeansBusiness, Facebook visited 18 cities across 6 states in India, helping the people by providing skills training to more than 14,000 small businesses and self-help groups including 12,000 women entrepreneurs across the country.