Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad Startup Meetup

Name: Ahmedabad Startup Meetup
Start: 2023-10-07T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2023-10-07T20:00:00+05:30
Location: CIIE.CO Building, IIM Ahmedabad New Campus.

<div>This meetup will have candid panel conversation with founders and leaders. It will be followed by open pitches from early stage founders.</div>

This meetup will have candid panel conversation with founders and leaders. It will be followed by open pitches from early stage founders.

Saturday, 7 October 2023

6:00–8:00 PM IST

CIIE.CO Building, IIM Ahmedabad New Campus.

Ahmedabad

Jatin, Amit + 8 others went See who came

Hosts & speakers 3

Jatin Chaudhary Host

CEO · eChai Ventures

Amit Gupta Speaker

Founder, Airmed Pathology Labs

Dheeraj Bhojwani

Vice President - IIMA Ventures

Going 7

Aashish Kharwade

Co-Founder · FastHire Manpower Solution

Jaydip Parikh

Chief Storyteller · Tej SolPro Digital Pvt. Ltd.

Programs Manager · GUSEC

Bhavik Parikh

Performance Marketer · Mvtechlabs

Starting Up

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Founder mental health & burnout How do I protect my mental health when a cofounder conflict is eating me alive? Cofounder conflict wrecks founders more than product failure does, because it is a...

Should you raise? VC vs bootstrap How much of my company should I still own after seed, Series A, and beyond? Aim to sell roughly 10 to 20 percent per round and keep meaningful founder ownership...

Angel & seed fundraising How do I know if venture funding is even right for my startup, and what are the alternatives? Take VC only if you are building a business that can plausibly return a fund, meaning a...

Building your MVP Should my MVP be a mobile app or a web app? My users are mostly on phones in smaller Indian cities. For a first MVP, a mobile-friendly web app almost always wins: no app-store review, no...

Productivity & time for founders How do I stop saying yes to every coffee, podcast, and networking event and getting nothing shipped? Make your default no and your calendar do the enforcing. Batch all external requests...

Should you raise? VC vs bootstrap How do I raise money without a warm introduction or an IIT/IIM network? Cold outreach works far better than founders think if the email is short, specific, and...

Launching (again and again) I relaunched a product that failed the first time. How do I frame it so it doesn't look like I'm just recycling a flop? Don't hide the first attempt, name it: say plainly what didn't work, what you learned,...

Spotting trends & opportunities I'm still a student. How do I use my age and campus as an advantage for spotting the next trend? As a student you're living in the future in one specific way: you and your peers adopt...

Founder-led sales How do I find my first 10 customers to sell to when I have zero network and no inbound? Your first 10 will not come from posting online, they will come from you personally...

Selling to enterprises (B2B) How do I write a cold outbound email to a VP that actually gets a reply? Keep it under five sentences, lead with a specific pain their team feels (not your...

Polls

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Sales & Marketing What do you publish your newsletter with?

Mailchimp 3 votes · 30%

Substack 3 votes · 30%

Zoho Campaigns 3 votes · 30%

Brevo 1 vote · 10%

Beehiiv 0 votes · 0%

Kit (ConvertKit) 0 votes · 0%

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Product & Engineering Which cloud or hosting is your product on?

AWS 4 votes · 33%

Google Cloud 2 votes · 17%

Others 2 votes · 17%

Cloudflare 1 vote · 8%

Railway 1 vote · 8%

Supabase 1 vote · 8%

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People & Hiring Where do you hire your team from?

LinkedIn 1 vote · 20%

Wellfound 1 vote · 20%

Referrals 1 vote · 20%

A recruitment partner 1 vote · 20%

Internships converted to full-time 1 vote · 20%

Naukri 0 votes · 0%

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Product & Engineering Where does your team write things down?

Google Docs 6 votes · 60%

Notion 2 votes · 20%

Obsidian 1 vote · 10%

Others 1 vote · 10%

Confluence 0 votes · 0%

Coda 0 votes · 0%

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Essentials Where does your team chat all day?

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WhatsApp 23 votes · 43%

Microsoft Teams 12 votes · 23%

Google Chat 6 votes · 11%

Slack 5 votes · 9%

Zoho Cliq 3 votes · 6%

Discord 1 vote · 2%

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Money & Legal What do you use for accounting and bookkeeping?

Zoho Books 1 vote · 50%

Tally 1 vote · 50%

Vyapar 0 votes · 0%

QuickBooks 0 votes · 0%

Refrens 0 votes · 0%

myBillBook 0 votes · 0%

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Operations How does your team book business travel?

MakeMyTrip 2 votes · 40%

EaseMyTrip 1 vote · 20%

Ixigo 1 vote · 20%

Direct on airline and hotel sites 1 vote · 20%

Cleartrip 0 votes · 0%

Yatra 0 votes · 0%

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Product & Engineering Where do you manage projects and tasks?

Jira 2 votes · 33%

Others 2 votes · 33%

Asana 1 vote · 17%

ClickUp 1 vote · 17%

Notion 0 votes · 0%

Linear 0 votes · 0%

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Product & Engineering Which no-code builder do you ship with?

Framer 3 votes · 43%

Webflow 1 vote · 14%

Wix 1 vote · 14%

WordPress 1 vote · 14%

Shopify 1 vote · 14%

Squarespace 0 votes · 0%

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Essentials Which tool do your video meetings run on?

Google Meet 11 votes · 55%

Microsoft Teams 6 votes · 30%

Zoom 3 votes · 15%

Webex 0 votes · 0%

Whereby 0 votes · 0%

Around 0 votes · 0%

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Asks

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Partnerships & BD I'm looking for a strategic partner in my space. Darshan Thakkar

Product & UX Product leader\managers\owners, looking to collaborate on a market research effort for my startup. Need... Chaitanya Joshi

Looking for an open-source video generator for education/ career development program. Riya Shah

Planning Solo Founders Socials at eChai across cities. A lot of founders are building alone. Different... Jatin Chaudhary

Marketing & brand I’m currently exploring opportunities in Ahmedabad. I have 11+ years of experience in Food FMCG and... Chinmay Parekh

Partnerships & BD Looking for a professional video studio in Delhi for a long-term partnership — not a standard booking. We... Mr Mujtaba

Partnerships & BD I'm looking for resellers or agency partners. I'm open to co-marketing or a partnership with another... Pragnesh Shah

Looking forward to connecting with startup folks in Ahmedabad who play cricket. We are hosting eChai... Jatin Chaudhary

Fundraising & investors I'd value help building a tight list of the right investors to approach. Sudheer Panyam

Mentorship & advice I'm looking for a small peer group of founders to think with. Also need mentoring support from... Vivart Patel

Podcasts

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He Built USA's #1 Restaurant (but ignored the food) Nudge

Why Some People Are Luckier Than You Nudge

ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview BG2 Pod

Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray Latent Space

How This Fraudster Sold Fake Scottish Tea to the Rich Nudge

What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Claude Code & Cowork) Lenny's Podcast

From Zapier for Devs to Powering 90% AI Agents Y Combinator

I Did OnePlus. Still, Nobody Wanted To Work For Us... WTF is with Nikhil Kamath

An Ex OpenAI Researcher on the Real Risk of Frontier Models The Generalist

Want to grow customers? Use referrals - Growth Marketing Mixergy

Books

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The Ascent of Money Niall Ferguson

The Essays of Warren Buffett Warren E. Buffett, selected and arranged by Lawrence A. Cunningham

The Leadership Challenge James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Tribal Leadership Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright

Confessions of an Advertising Man David Ogilvy

Platform Strategy Sangeet Paul Choudary

The Four Steps to the Epiphany Steve Blank

Good to Great Jim Collins

Losing My Virginity Richard Branson

The Culture Map Erin Meyer

Watchlist

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Docudrama The Men Who Built America A founder history of railroads, oil, steel and finance and how empires formed.

Miniseries Inventing Anna A cautionary study of fundraising on image, social proof and the appetite of investors.

TV Series The Newsroom Strong on mission, leadership and building something with conviction inside a business.

Film Wall Street A classic on greed, mentorship and the cost of shortcuts.

Film Maska An Indian story on family business, legacy and choosing your path.

TV Series Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber Shows the brutal mechanics of scaling, aggressive growth tactics and founder versus...

Miniseries The Dropout Essential viewing on the line between bold vision and fraud, and how investors and...

Film Sui Dhaaga A grassroots entrepreneurship story about self reliance, craft and building a brand.

TV Series Succession A family business is still a family.

Documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley A factual companion to the Theranos story on belief, ethics and investors.

AI tools

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Assistants Poe

Writing & content Copy.ai

Coding bolt.new

Video & audio Sora

Coding Devin

Design & images Canva Magic Studio

Design & images Stable Diffusion

Coding Cursor

Design & images Adobe Firefly

Data & analytics Hex

eChai Partner Brands

eChai Ventures partners with select brands as their growth partner. Together we explore new ideas, open doors, and build momentum across the startup ecosystem.

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