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The Hedgehog and the Unicorn: Why old-school moats beat modern growth hacks

The meltdown of India's startup darlings proves that capital is not a moat—a lesson the gritty entrepreneurs of the License Raj understood all too well

February 21, 2026 / 11:28 IST
The past two years have been a brutal audit of India’s startup decade
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