Ahmedabad

Building Consumer and D2C Brands

Name: Building Consumer and D2C Brands
Start: 2026-06-04T18:30:00+05:30
End: 2026-06-04T20:30:00+05:30
Location: GVFL Ahmedabad

A panel conversation with founders and operators on building consumer and D2C brands.

A panel conversation featuring founders and operators in consumer and D2C spaces. covering go-to-market, distribution, and what it really takes to create products that resonate, build trust, and grow consistently across digital and physical channels.

Speakers are typically announced 3-4 days before the event.

Thursday, 4 June 2026

6:30–8:30 PM IST

GVFL Ahmedabad

1221/1222, 12th Floor, East Wing, Stratum @Venus Grounds, Nehrunagar, Ahmedabad 380015, Gujarat

Kunal, Harsha + 4 others went See who came

Snapshots from the event

Snapshot from Building Consumer and D2C Brands

Going 6

Harsha Bhurani

Founder & CEO · Hummingbird Talent

Jatin Chaudhary

CEO · eChai Ventures

Kunal Chaudhari

Co-Founder · eChai Ventures

Kush Prajapati

COO · DI AI

Rahul Kumar

Founder & CEO · Retner.ai

Sumit Kasardekar

Founder · The Harsmit Ventures

Starting Up

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Pitch deck & storytelling How do I handle a pivot in my pitch, when the deck has to explain why the old thing did not work? Frame the pivot as evidence you learn fast, not as a failure you are hiding. Tell it as...

Competitive & market research How do I understand the competitive landscape for an Indian market specifically? Don't assume the US playbook maps onto India, pricing power, distribution, and...

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...

Defining your ideal customer Should my ideal customer be the person who pays or the person who uses the product? Separate the two early because they often aren't the same person, and your whole...

Website & landing page Which no-code website builder should I pick if I want to graduate to a real product site later without rebuilding? If the page is throwaway validation, use whatever ships fastest and don't overthink...

Failure, pivots & shutdowns When is a pivot really just quitting the current idea with extra steps? A real pivot keeps something you already have (a customer base, a technology, a...

Grants & non-dilutive funding How do I sell to the government and use GeM, tenders, and public procurement as non-dilutive revenue? Government procurement is non-dilutive money you earn, and DPIIT recognition unlocks...

Startup finance & accounting How should I manage cash flow so my startup doesn't run out of money? Take your profit (and taxes) off the top before you touch the rest, invoice fast, and...

Naming your startup & domains How do I check if a startup name is already taken before I fall in love with it? Do a fast five-minute sweep before you get attached: search the exact name plus your...

Website & landing page How do I set up a landing page in both English and a regional language for customers outside the metros? Only translate if your actual customers read that language better than English,...

Polls

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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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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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Sales & Marketing What powers your customer support?

That Was AI 1 vote · 100%

Zendesk 0 votes · 0%

Freshdesk 0 votes · 0%

Intercom 0 votes · 0%

HubSpot Service 0 votes · 0%

Zoho Desk 0 votes · 0%

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Sales & Marketing Which CRM do you use?

HubSpot 1 vote · 33%

monday CRM 1 vote · 33%

Notion 1 vote · 33%

Salesforce 0 votes · 0%

Zoho CRM 0 votes · 0%

Pipedrive 0 votes · 0%

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Operations Which cloud telephony runs your business calls?

Exotel 0 votes · 0%

Knowlarity 0 votes · 0%

MyOperator 0 votes · 0%

Servetel 0 votes · 0%

Ozonetel 0 votes · 0%

Kaleyra 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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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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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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Operations What do you get documents signed with?

DocuSign 3 votes · 50%

Adobe Acrobat Sign 1 vote · 17%

PandaDoc 1 vote · 17%

Others 1 vote · 17%

Zoho Sign 0 votes · 0%

Dropbox Sign 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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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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Anthropic Customers are Being Overcharged The Information

The Best 5 Exercises for Every Phase of Life The Pat Flynn Show

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

Uber CEO on AI, Autonomous Vehicles, and the Future of Transportation Invest Like the Best

When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs Latent Space

Sophia Amoruso | Building Nasty Gal, Turning Down $400M, and Losing it All The Peel

Why India Hasn't Built A Global Company Yet WTF is with Nikhil Kamath

Your Product Is NOT Your Company | Pramod Gosavi (Blumberg Capital) The Desi VC

Building Enduring Companies Outside Silicon Valley | Santiago Suárez of Addi a16z

AI Security After Codex and Claude Code — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan Latent Space

Books

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Death by Meeting Patrick Lencioni

No Rules Rules Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer

The Score Takes Care of Itself Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh

The Startup of You Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha

Elon Musk Walter Isaacson

The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wired for Story Lisa Cron

Made in Japan Akio Morita with Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura

Lovemarks Kevin Roberts

Product Demos That Sell Steli Efti

Watchlist

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TV Series The Office Often referenced on management, culture and the human side of running a workplace.

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

Web Series Hustle Captures the energy and chaos of early founders in the Indian context.

TV Series Rocket Boys Inspiring on vision, institution building and backing big bets against the odds.

Docuseries Dirty Money Useful cautionary cases on governance, ethics and incentives in business.

Film The Social Network The most influential founder film for a generation on cofounders, equity and speed.

Miniseries WeCrashed A vivid study of hype, charismatic founders, blitzscaling and the limits of a growth at...

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

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

Film The Current War A founder rivalry on standards wars, capital and commercializing technology.

AI tools

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Research & search Consensus

Automation & agents Gumloop

Assistants Qwen

Coding Cline

Research & search You.com

Meetings & notes Otter.ai

Writing & content Sudowrite

Assistants Le Chat

Coding Lovable 1 founder use it

Writing & content Grammarly

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