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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Paid acquisition basics My cost per click looks fine but nobody buys. Where do I even start fixing this? A cheap click that doesn't convert is almost always a landing page or offer problem,...

Pitch deck & storytelling Should I send my deck ahead of the meeting or present it live, and how do I make a deck that works both ways? You need two versions from the same file. The send-ahead deck is self-explanatory: it...

Product design & UX basics What are the core UX principles every founder should know? Make it obvious, not clever: match the user's mental model, show system status, prevent...

Productivity & time for founders How do I protect my building time when I still have a full-time job and I'm doing this on nights and weekends? Stop relying on scraps of leftover energy and reserve one real block instead. Two...

Incubators, accelerators & competitions Which incubators and accelerators give grant money, not just space and mentorship? In India, look past the WeWork-with-mentors variety toward government-backed incubators...

Launching (again and again) My launch flopped and nobody cared, did I mess it up? Probably not, and definitely not fatally. Most first launches get ignored, that's...

Talking to customers & user research How do I run customer discovery as an Indian founder building for Indian users? The frameworks are global but the field is local: Indian buyers often say 'yes, nice'...

Valuation, SAFEs & term sheets How much dilution should I expect across seed and Series A? Plan for roughly 10-20% dilution per priced round plus the option pool, and remember...

Cold outreach & email How do I write a cold email that people actually reply to? Keep it short, personal, and about them, not you. Nail a subject line that sparks...

Growth fundamentals & metrics How do I know if I have product-market fit before I try to grow? Run the Sean Ellis survey: if 40% or more of users would be 'very disappointed' without...

Polls

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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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Sales & Marketing What runs your marketing automation?

HubSpot 1 vote · 25%

MoEngage 1 vote · 25%

Others 1 vote · 25%

Retner.ai 1 vote · 25%

Customer.io 0 votes · 0%

Braze 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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AI Which AI coding tool do you build with?

Claude Code 4 votes · 50%

Cursor 1 vote · 13%

OpenAI Codex 1 vote · 13%

Replit 1 vote · 13%

Lovable 1 vote · 13%

GitHub Copilot 0 votes · 0%

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Operations Where do you get your team's health insurance?

HDFC ERGO 2 votes · 40%

ICICI Lombard 1 vote · 20%

Star Health 1 vote · 20%

Through a broker 1 vote · 20%

Plum 0 votes · 0%

Onsurity 0 votes · 0%

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Money & Legal What do you send your invoices with?

Zoho Books 2 votes · 50%

Others 1 vote · 25%

Email 1 vote · 25%

Refrens 0 votes · 0%

Zoho Invoice 0 votes · 0%

Vyapar 0 votes · 0%

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Money & Legal Who did you incorporate your company with?

LegalWiz.in 3 votes · 50%

A local CA 3 votes · 50%

Vakilsearch 0 votes · 0%

IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%

ClearTax 0 votes · 0%

Razorpay Rize 0 votes · 0%

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People & Hiring Which accelerator or incubator were you part of?

IIMA Ventures 3 votes · 43%

A state or govt incubator 3 votes · 43%

i-Hub 1 vote · 14%

Y Combinator 0 votes · 0%

Techstars 0 votes · 0%

Antler 0 votes · 0%

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AI Which AI agents are running in your stack right now?

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Claude Code 19 votes · 30%

Claude Cowork 9 votes · 14%

Cursor 8 votes · 13%

Gemini Spark (Google) 6 votes · 9%

OpenAI Codex 4 votes · 6%

OpenCode 3 votes · 5%

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Money & Legal How have you funded your business so far?

Bootstrapped 14 votes · 88%

Angel investors 1 vote · 6%

A VC firm 1 vote · 6%

AngelList or LetsVenture syndicate 0 votes · 0%

Venture Catalysts or 100X.VC 0 votes · 0%

An accelerator 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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Eric Volmar (Stanford University) - A New Entrepreneurship Playbook [Entire Talk] Stanford eCorner

Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more | BG2 BG2 Pod

Should You Sell Your UNDERPERFORMING Mag 7 Stocks? The Pomp Podcast

The Smart Money Is BULLISH On These Two UNDERVALUED AI Stocks The Pomp Podcast

Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner Table This Week in Startups

How Exa is Building the Perfect Search Engine | Deep Dives with a16z a16z

How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Ended Up Running American TV | The Untold Amagi Story The Neon Show

Eating for Better Sleep & Foods that Improve Metabolic Health | Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge Huberman Lab

Rethinking Authenticity and What to Do Instead with Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic 8|5 Radical Candor

The Power of Habit Summarized by the Author | Charles Duhigg My First Million

Books

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Story Robert McKee

The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman

Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed

Good Strategy Bad Strategy Richard P. Rumelt

The Coaching Habit Michael Bungay Stanier

The Art of Startup Fundraising Alejandro Cremades

This Is Strategy Seth Godin

Lovemarks Kevin Roberts

Difficult Conversations Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen

Masters of Scale Reid Hoffman with June Cohen and Deron Triff

Watchlist

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Docuseries The Food That Built America Strong on branding, distribution and category creation in consumer goods.

TV Series Mad Men Deep on brand, persuasion, agency building and reinvention of self and company.

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

TV Series Cubicles Honest on work culture, early career pressure and finding your feet inside an...

TV Series Ozark A dark study of operations, risk management and running a business under extreme pressure.

Film Dumb Money A timely look at markets, community and the power of distribution online.

Film Steve Jobs A sharp portrait of product launches, leadership and difficult genius.

TV Series Made in Heaven A genuine founder story about running a services business, managing clients and holding...

TV Series Silicon Valley Four engineers try to build a company without losing the company.

TV Series Physical A founder origin story about turning an idea into a personal brand business.

AI tools

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Assistants Meta AI

Assistants Grok 1 founder use it

Assistants DeepSeek

Research & search Elicit

Data & analytics Rows

Coding v0

Video & audio HeyGen

Video & audio Sora

Coding OpenAI Codex 1 founder use it

Meetings & notes tl;dv

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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