Doing a startup in Kashmir as a young person is an emotional struggle before it ever becomes a business one. We grow up with ideas and ambition, wanting to build something of our own and stay back instead of leaving. But finances become the first wall.
Investors try to control the vision, banks don’t trust you without guarantors, and the endless Sarkari Daftar ke Chakkar slowly drains your energy.
Then there’s the uncertainty we live with every day in Kashmir . Planning feels risky, investing feels scary, and hope feels fragile.
On top of this, instead of healthy competition, many startups end up pulling each other down. Rather than collaboration and growth, there is comparison, negativity, and an effort to underplay others in the same space making the journey even lonelier for young founders.
If we truly want startups to rise in Kashmir, we must build an ecosystem based on trust, stability, and healthy competition so that young people feel encouraged to stay, build, and grow together.
The writer is an eminent broadcaster, famously known as RJ Nasir, and a successful entreprenuer
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