Saturday 29 April 2017

Google's "Solve For India" Program



Google has announced a new "Solve For India" program on friday. The program is aimed to boost and inspire the upcoming entrepreneurs and startups  in cities like Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata, Kochi, Indore, Kanpur, Chennai, Nagpur, and few more. A great oportunity for developers is that they can also learn from Experts in areas such as Firebase, Android , Machine Learning, Cloud APIs, Progressive Web Apps, and Indian Language translation solutions.


Google will provide access to its various programmes, including the Google Launchpad Acceleratoring Program to upcoming Developers and Entrepreneurs. This will help the developers to build and accelerate their product ideas, and take them to the next Level. The Launchpad accelerator program comes with six month mentorship program along with equity-free investments about Rs. 32 lakhs. Google says it will also provide Rs. 12.8 lakh Google cloud credits. 


The major problem for startup entrepreneurs is requirement of money. Many indians having great ideas get demotivated lacking in investment, confusion whether they will succeed or not. But the new Google's initiative program will help indians with such problem's by expanding their vision, Encouraging and helping them to boost their ideas.


Google India program manager, Mr. Karthik Padmanabhan talking about initiative, said, " Majority of India's internet users are Indian language users, and over 80 percent of them access the internet from their mobile phones. But the current Indian startup ecosystem is building products for English speaking audience and caters only to 15% of the population. Also, there are growing number of entrepreneurs in smaller Indian Cities who are focusing on building solutions that caters to the real needs of India. Through tis initiative we want to bring the best of Google under one program and join forces with them to help create solutions that serves the needs of a billion Indians." 


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