BS READS: What Rs 50,000-crore MSME Fund can learn from its start-up sister

The Rs 50,000-crore MSME fund of funds has an uphill task ahead, but there's plenty it can learn from problems with the Rs 10,000 crore start-up fund of funds launched five years ago

The lockdown enforced across India on March 24 to prevent the spread of coronavirus put several small firms out of business and cast a cloud over the future of many others. But heads turned when a start-up stalwart spoke about it.

“If Covid-19 lockdown had happened in my childhood, my father's small business would have failed and I would have grown up in poverty instead of a middle-class household,” Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal wrote in a Twitter post on May 12.

If COVID lockdowns had happened in my childhood, my father's small business would have failed and