San Francisco

Bay Area Startup Meetup

Name: Bay Area Startup Meetup
Start: 2024-09-13T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2024-09-13T20:00:00+05:30
Location: Sama Coffee Shop, 800 S B St #500, San Mateo, CA 94401, United States

<div>eChai Ventures San Francisco will be hosting the small gathering of founders and startups folks on September 13th, Friday from 6 pm to 8 pm PDT.</div>

eChai Ventures San Francisco will be hosting the small gathering of founders and startups folks on September 13th, Friday from 6 pm to 8 pm PDT.

Friday, 13 September 2024

6:00–8:00 PM IST

Sama Coffee Shop, 800 S B St #500, San Mateo, CA 94401, United States

San Francisco

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Starting Up

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Founder-market fit I'm a student with no work experience. Can I have founder-market fit at all, or should I wait? You can, in the narrow set of markets you actually live in: student life, campus...

Grants & non-dilutive funding Can I get a grant or funding before I graduate, without a registered company? For most government grants the honest answer is no, DPIIT recognition and schemes like...

Naming your startup & domains Is it a bad idea to name my startup after myself or use my own name? It's fine for consulting, personal brands, or solo creator businesses where you are the...

Content & SEO foundations How is SEO changing with AI answers and ChatGPT, and should I even care as a small founder? AI answer engines now sit between searchers and your site, so some clicks vanish, but...

Social media & personal brand How do I turn an audience into actual customers or signups? Grow the audience with free, genuinely useful content, then convert with a single clear...

Making the leap I'm 40+ with kids and a mortgage. Is it too late, or too irresponsible, to make the leap now? It is neither: the average successful founder is closer to 40 than 25, and your decade...

No-code & low-code building What can I build with just a spreadsheet as the backend? More than you'd think, internal tools, client portals, directories, and simple...

Selling to enterprises (B2B) How do I survive procurement, legal, and security reviews as a tiny startup? Procurement, legal, and security exist to slow you down, so prepare the paperwork...

Getting your first 10 customers I'm a solo technical founder and hate selling. How do I get my first customers without becoming a salesperson? You do not need to become a salesperson, but as a founder you cannot outsource the...

Finding your niche / beachhead I'm a solo founder with a full-time job. How do I pick a beachhead I can actually serve with 10 hours a week? Pick a niche you already have access to (your industry, your community, your former...

Polls

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Operations Which courier partner ships your orders?

Shiprocket 1 vote · 33%

Blue Dart 1 vote · 33%

DTDC 1 vote · 33%

Delhivery 0 votes · 0%

Ecom Express 0 votes · 0%

Xpressbees 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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Money & Legal Who handles your GST and tax filing?

My CA handles it 7 votes · 100%

ClearTax 0 votes · 0%

Zoho Books 0 votes · 0%

IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%

Quicko 0 votes · 0%

TaxBuddy 0 votes · 0%

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Sales & Marketing What do you use for forms and surveys?

Google Forms 9 votes · 60%

Microsoft Forms 2 votes · 13%

Typeform 1 vote · 7%

Zoho Forms 1 vote · 7%

Others 1 vote · 7%

Youform 1 vote · 7%

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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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Operations How do people book time with you?

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Google Calendar appointments 8 votes · 31%

Calendly 7 votes · 27%

Cal.com 4 votes · 15%

Phone Call or Whatsapp 3 votes · 12%

Microsoft Bookings 2 votes · 8%

Zoho Bookings 1 vote · 4%

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

Bootstrapped 13 votes · 87%

Angel investors 1 vote · 7%

A VC firm 1 vote · 7%

AngelList or LetsVenture syndicate 0 votes · 0%

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

An accelerator 0 votes · 0%

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Essentials Where does your team chat all day?

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WhatsApp 22 votes · 42%

Microsoft Teams 12 votes · 23%

Google Chat 6 votes · 12%

Slack 5 votes · 10%

Zoho Cliq 3 votes · 6%

Discord 1 vote · 2%

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Sales & Marketing What do you schedule and manage social media with?

Sprout Social 1 vote · 25%

SocialPilot 1 vote · 25%

Others 1 vote · 25%

Brands.live 1 vote · 25%

Buffer 0 votes · 0%

Hootsuite 0 votes · 0%

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AI Which AI image or video tool do you create with?

Google Veo 5 votes · 38%

DALL-E 2 votes · 15%

Adobe Firefly 2 votes · 15%

Midjourney 1 vote · 8%

Ideogram 1 vote · 8%

Leonardo AI 1 vote · 8%

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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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Did AI Just “Solve” Math? (Let’s Take a Closer Look) Deep Questions

How To Become Dangerously Good At Negotiation 30 Minutes to President's Club

Episode 264: Product at Scale Inside the World’s Largest Financial Institutions Product Thinking

Why KFC Spends Millions Promoting a Fake Secret Nudge

Why is Bhavish Aggarwal's Krutrim AI failing? Backstage with Millionaires

The Psychology of Making People Buy The Futur

AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner BG2 Pod

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

Revolt of the Rich Radical Candor

Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305 This Week in Startups

Books

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Ogilvy on Advertising David Ogilvy

How Brands Grow Byron Sharp

Get Backed Evan Baehr and Evan Loomis

Words That Work Frank Luntz

The Simple Path to Wealth J. L. Collins

Product Roadmaps Relaunched C. Todd Lombardo with Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, and Michael Connors

The Lean Product Playbook Dan Olsen

Storynomics Robert McKee and Thomas Gerace

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain

Sprint Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz

Watchlist

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Docuseries Explained A quick way to understand the systems and markets founders operate within.

TV Series City of Dreams A succession and power story that rhymes with founder families and control of an...

Film Air A superb study of negotiation, conviction and a category defining bet.

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

TV Series Succession A family business is still a family.

Film 3 Idiots A cultural touchstone on innovation, following your passion and inventing rather than...

Docuseries Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. A reminder that operators can be manipulated and businesses can unravel fast.

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

Documentary The Pixar Story A creative company story about culture, technology and patient bets.

TV Series Kota Factory A study of systems, pressure and mentorship that maps onto building and competing.

AI tools

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Automation & agents Make

Writing & content Grammarly

Research & search You.com

Writing & content Writesonic

Video & audio Udio

Assistants Claude 8 founders use it

Design & images Midjourney

Design & images Ideogram

Meetings & notes Granola

Video & audio Kling

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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