Start-ups pick up survival skills

Amid bloodbath in job street, more determined ones are pursuing upskilling, retraining and the like

If there is a sector severely hit by job losses after information technology, it would be the start-up and e-commerce space. 

Online marketplace majors, e-grocers, Internet of Things firms, app-based companies and transport service aggregators are among those that have had to shut shop or scale down operations.

Amid the bloodbath in the job street, some are gradually picking up the pieces, trying hard to revive and put themselves back on the map. Companies have started looking at measures like re-skilling and redeployment of talent, not exactly part of the start-up lexicon in its growth years. So that a tighter