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Post COVID Startup opportunities-a big picture view Introduction Quite a few big names like Airbnb, Microsoft, Disney, General Motors and General Electric were born during economic crises but they are in rarities ( The Economist ). The reality is more than eighty percent of fortune 500 companies were born in good times. That said, the silver lining is that following a slump, a burst of entrepreneurial activity eventually emerges and we may safely assume that it will be the case in the post covid recovery phase as well. According to Nasscom 40% of Indian tech startups were forced to stop operations during the pandemic in 2020. We will see opportunities are aplenty but the journey is not easy. At the beginning of 2021 we see enough vibration in the startup domain. Ecommerce players have taken a large recruitment drive. Several IIMs have seen jump in offers from ecommerce from 80% to 40% over the last year . Not only ecommerce , there are other players too out there in the recruitme...