Building the 'A' team - Startup Saturday

Name: Building the 'A' team - Startup Saturday
Start: 2017-02-11T21:30:00+05:30
End: 2017-02-12T01:30:00+05:30
Location: Aryabhatt Hall, LD College of Engineering

Happened

Saturday, 11 February 2017, 9:30 pm - 1:30 am

Aryabhatt Hall, LD College of Engineering

Ahmedabad

About

The team behind your idea is the most important piece of the startup puzzle. Once you choose a great co-founder and go as far as you can with just the two of you, it's time to start building the rest of your team. Hiring the right people makes all the difference, especially in the early days. As Steve Jobs rightly said, Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people. We at Headstart, are choosing Building your A-Team as the theme for the Startup Saturday, February edition. This is the 2nd part of the 6-month series of 'How to Start a Start-Up', taking you through the steps, decisions, questions that every entrepreneur faces during a startup cycle. ENTRY FEES: INR 100/- Buy tickets here: http://www.meraevents.com/event/building-the-a-team-startup-saturday-ahmedabad-february-edition SPEAKERS ____________ GLENN DIETZEL, MENTOR TO THE WORLD'S HIGHEST PAID BUSINESS COACHES, CONSULTANTS, EXPERTS AND ADVISORS Glenn Dietzel is an internationally recognized Thought Leader and business acceleration strategist. Glenn has created a revolutionary business approach to creating, selling and scaling the value of your advice quickly and easily. His high velocity growth strategies are used by business leaders globally allowing them to command maximum fees and royalties. eChai Startup Team Showcase _________________________________ Mr. Naidu Darapaneni, Founder & CEO, MeraEvents Mr. Naidu is founder & CEO of MeraEvents, an event listing, promotion and ticketing platform, that connects the organizers, delegates, and service providers from across the country. It offers event organisers with numerous options like listing, promotions, online ticketing, etc. He found a gap in the event space and was determined to fill the same with the bouquet of MeraEvents. The journey has been eventful. Mr. Karan Dangayach, Managing Director at Shashwat Cleantech Karan is a co-founder and managing director in Shashwat Cleantech Pvt. Ltd. (formerly known as Shashwat Green Fuels & Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) since September 2009. Shashwat was formed with a view to commercialising clean technology solutions which are cost-effective for India and emerging markets such as Africa and South-east Asia. Mr. Rakesh Patel, CEO, Space-O Technologies Rakesh Patel is the CEO of Space-O Technologies having 25 years of leadership experience in business strategies, operations & information technology. In his long career of 2 decades, Rakesh has played key roles in diverse areas of the software business assuming responsibilities as System Analyst and Design Architect, Project Manager, Functional Consultant, Head of Business Development and a Business Unit Leader. Mr. Kuntal Shah, Co-founder, DigiCorp Kuntal is the co-founder of Digicorp, a software design and development firm started in 2004. Digicorp helps startups build usable (solving real problems for users) software products. We also build products for ourselves and spin-off ventures around the most promising ones. Focused on design and engineering of our solutions out-smart the competition. Digicorp has offices in India and USA. Mr. Gaurav Barot, Founder, Knowarth Technolgies Gaurav Barot is the founder of Knowarth Technologies, one of the fastest growing IT company of India. Gaurav Barot is an experienced software architect and PMP-certified project manager with more than 12 years of experience. He has a unique combination of experience in enterprise resource planning, sales, education, and technology. He has served as an enterprise architect and project leader in projects in various domains, including healthcare, risk, insurance, media, and so on for customers in the UK, USA, Singapore, and India. Gaurav holds a bachelor's degree in IT engineering from Sardar Patel University, and has completed his post graduation in IT from Deakin University Melbourne. Buy tickets here: http://www.meraevents.com/event/building-the-a-team-startup-saturday-ahmedabad-february-edition Limited seats!

Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Each partnership comes with presence across eChai, introductions to the right founders, and a team that stays involved through the year. And each one is shaped around what the brand wants out of it.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. When one fits what you do and who you want to meet, you are on the list.

What we do with you

We sit down with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

How it works.

A partnership is for growth stage founders who want to come in as a partner brand, and it runs one year at a time. The brand fee for the year is paid to eChai. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.