Most startups in India worth the moniker of "tech-startup" do know how to program. I have visited (as a potential employee) or talked to many founders (as a potential partner) most major revenue earning tech startups in India and I'd say everyone of them had strong programming founders.
Yes many startups-founders are clueless and have a world changing the-next-facebook-idea but that happens everywhere, not just in India.
I was part of a non-tech startup once and web was just marketing tool for us, we did not want to do the website and its UX ourselves, that would be a waste of our precious time (although we ended up doing it too cos' we were techies at heart). I think we did a mistake by doing it ourselves.
So no, all Indian startups do not need to learn how to program and most tech-startups do know how to program.
Yes many startups-founders are clueless and have a world changing the-next-facebook-idea but that happens everywhere, not just in India.
I was part of a non-tech startup once and web was just marketing tool for us, we did not want to do the website and its UX ourselves, that would be a waste of our precious time (although we ended up doing it too cos' we were techies at heart). I think we did a mistake by doing it ourselves.
So no, all Indian startups do not need to learn how to program and most tech-startups do know how to program.