What Covid-19 lockdown can teach Indian Food Retailing Startups

At a time when markets are dry, and the venture world is busy re-evaluating the valuations and company founders the value of their ventures, there is more than just capital that can help established firms and startups to successfully wade though the uncharted waters of the current crisis.

- Sanil Sachar

There is a lot in common between how great writers, philosophers, and entrepreneurs in our country think about and tackle calamities. Since the lockdown, it’s safe to say that not only have the deck of cards we were playing with shuffled, but we’re dealt a completely new deck. As a country that has over the past few years seen a rash of first-generation entrepreneurs, startups, investors and incubators, managing this febrile eco-system requires going back and visiting the great minds of history and channeling their wisdom during this lockdown.

Here is what startups, including those in the Food Retailing space, can learn from the savants and apply their leanings in these bleak times.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance – Virgil (Roman Poet)