Editors Note by S Prasannarajan; Modi and the marketplace by PR Ramesh; Flight to capital by Siddharth Singh; The affluent society by Ullekh NP; The romance of the first million by V Shoba; ‘Better not to be a rebel in today’s startup ecosystem’ by Lhendup G Bhutia; ‘Build big or go broke. Aim for nothing less than world domination’ by V Shoba; ‘Start early. You will make mistakes and learn early’ by Aanchal Bansal; ‘There is a 99 per cent chance that a startup will fail. Plan for the 1 per cent’ by V Shoba; ‘Make profits first, then worry about funding from investors’ by Sonali Acharjee; ‘The only way to take an investment decision—super quick’ by Haima Deshpande; ‘The one resource not to be taken for granted is time’ by Sonali Acharjee; ‘I dropped out of my MBA. Now I have my own company’ by Haima Deshpande; ‘Listen to every conversation for the next problem to solve’ by V Shoba; ‘My mother thought I am in business because I couldn’t get a job’ by Kumar Anshuman; The invisible hand of the startup economy by Amay Hattangadi and Swanand Kelkar; How we valued value by Bibek Debroy and more…