{"id":44082,"date":"2018-10-10T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=44082"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:15:57","slug":"facebook-to-boost-india-efforts-to-expand-startup-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/facebook-to-boost-india-efforts-to-expand-startup-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to boost India efforts to expand startup ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook on Tuesday said it aims to boost its efforts to expand the startup ecosystem in India, reiterating its commitment to widen its support to include technology entrepreneurs in different cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to paving the way for the success of the new generation of start-ups in India and understand that access to resources, people and networks can be a powerful catalyst for their growth,\u201d said Facebook\u2019s Satyajeet Singh, the head of Platform Partnerships for India and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>India is the world\u2019s third largest startup hub and has one of the fastest growing base of software developers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur initiatives seek to empower India\u2019s start-up ecosystem. Be it helping them with the use of emerging technologies like Augmented Reality\/Virtual Reality, giving women-led start-ups the right channels or supporting companies that are building solutions for social impact,\u201d Singh told reporters here.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the social media giant is creating programmes that can spur the entrepreneurs to build businesses of tomorrow through mentoring, regular training, workshops and meet-ups, Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said its first batch of 10 people at the School of Innovation has built its virtual reality ideas into working product prototypes, which will be showcased in 2019.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook on Tuesday said it aims to boost its efforts to expand the startup ecosystem in India, reiterating its commitment to widen its support to include technology entrepreneurs in different cities. \u201cWe are committed to paving the way for the success of the new generation of start-ups in India and understand that access to resources, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44084,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44082\/revisions\/44084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}