For the last few years, start-ups have become the buzz word in India. They are brimming with ideas and presenting high-quality products. But in the absence of focussed start-up facilitation networks and initiatives, emerging businesses become vulnerable to market conditions and have to allocate their limited resources to obtain funding, understand the market, and deal with competition at an early stage amongst a host of the other problems, leading to their premature closure Apoorva Ranjan Sharma, Co-founder and MD, 9 Unicorns Accelerator Fund told Aparajita Gupta in an interview .