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Building The Winning Startup Team and Company Culture

Saturday, 19 February 2022

4:00-5:00 PM IST

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Hosts & speakers 2

Khushboo Solanki Sharma Speaker

Founder, Zero Gravity Communications

Zaiba Sarang Speaker

Co-Founder, iThink Logistics

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Starting Up

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Copywriting & messaging How do I write microcopy for buttons, empty states, and error messages so the product feels friendly instead of robotic? Microcopy is where personality actually lives, so replace "Submit" and "An error...

Founder mental health & burnout How do I get my sleep, exercise, and body back on track when the startup has wrecked all three? Sleep is not the thing you trade for the startup, it is the thing that makes your...

Growth fundamentals & metrics What early growth mistakes should a first-time non-technical founder avoid when reading their metrics? The three that catch most people: celebrating cumulative totals (signups only ever go...

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,...

Validating your idea Can I validate a marketplace idea before I have supply or demand? Marketplaces have a chicken-and-egg problem, so validate one side at a time by manually...

Pricing & packaging For an Indian B2B SaaS, should I price and invoice in rupees or dollars? Price in the currency of the buyer's mental budget: rupees for Indian companies,...

Finding & shaping ideas Should I solve a problem I personally have, or chase a bigger market? Start with a problem you personally have or deeply understand. Founders who live the...

Founder-led sales How do I sell confidently when I am the founder and also the youngest or least experienced person in the room? Buyers do not need you to be the most senior person, they need to trust that you...

Selling to enterprises (B2B) How do I handle a deal that stalls after a great demo and just goes quiet? A stalled deal almost always means you never found the real economic buyer or the pain...

Shipping, iterating & roadmap How do I keep shipping weekly when I am building solo and constantly interrupted by support, sales, and admin? Solo, weekly shipping dies not from lack of ideas but from context-switching, so the...

Polls

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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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Money & Legal How do you manage company spends and cards?

IDFC Business Card 1 vote · 100%

Volopay 0 votes · 0%

Happay 0 votes · 0%

EnKash 0 votes · 0%

Kodo 0 votes · 0%

Zaggle 0 votes · 0%

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

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Google Veo 6 votes · 38%

DALL-E 3 votes · 19%

Midjourney 2 votes · 13%

Adobe Firefly 2 votes · 13%

Ideogram 1 vote · 6%

Leonardo AI 1 vote · 6%

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Essentials Which tool do your video meetings run on?

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Google Meet 12 votes · 57%

Microsoft Teams 6 votes · 29%

Zoom 3 votes · 14%

Webex 0 votes · 0%

Whereby 0 votes · 0%

Around 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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Money & Legal Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?

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ICICI Bank 14 votes · 36%

HDFC Bank 10 votes · 26%

Kotak Mahindra Bank 9 votes · 23%

IDFC First Bank 2 votes · 5%

State Bank of India 1 vote · 3%

Yes Bank 1 vote · 3%

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Sales & Marketing Which CRM do you use?

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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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People & Hiring How do you run payroll and HR?

Keka 2 votes · 67%

RazorpayX Payroll 1 vote · 33%

GreytHR 0 votes · 0%

Zoho Payroll 0 votes · 0%

Kredily 0 votes · 0%

Darwinbox 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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AI Which AI coding tool do you build with?

Claude Code 4 votes · 44%

Cursor 2 votes · 22%

OpenAI Codex 1 vote · 11%

Replit 1 vote · 11%

Lovable 1 vote · 11%

GitHub Copilot 0 votes · 0%

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Asks

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Operations & scaling I am looking for an Operations leader for the next phase at TAFCO. Reach out if you feel you are someone... Ayyan Karmakar

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

Podcasts

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We've Never Seen an AI Like This (Claude Fable 5)

We've Never Seen an AI Like This (Claude Fable 5) Bankless

Why Every Finance Stack Breaks at $1M Revenue (and What to do About it)

Why Every Finance Stack Breaks at $1M Revenue (and What to do About it) Foundr

Leading Valerie Health's $30M Series A to Eliminate Front-Office Bottlenecks in Specialty Care

Leading Valerie Health's $30M Series A to Eliminate Front-Office Bottlenecks in Specialty Care The Logan Bartlett Show

This Quant Fund Broke the Power Law

This Quant Fund Broke the Power Law The Peel

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Mutual fund information ab Kite par available hain The Daily Brief

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

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

Wizdom English Language Trainers' Trust [WELTT] Ahmedabad

Wizdom English Language Trainers' Trust [WELTT] Ahmedabad Outliers with Prashant Pillai

Instagram failed until it made THIS simple change

Instagram failed until it made THIS simple change Nudge

If You Only Have One Kettlebell… (Do This)

If You Only Have One Kettlebell… (Do This) The Pat Flynn Show

Should You Sell Your UNDERPERFORMING Mag 7 Stocks?

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

Books

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre

Little Red Book of Selling

Little Red Book of Selling Jeffrey Gitomer

To Sell Is Human

To Sell Is Human Daniel H. Pink

Getting to Yes Roger Fisher and William Ury

Who Geoff Smart and Randy Street

Tribal Leadership

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

The Simple Path to Wealth

The Simple Path to Wealth J. L. Collins

Good to Great Jim Collins

Outcomes Over Output

Outcomes Over Output Joshua Seiden

The Art of Startup Fundraising

The Art of Startup Fundraising Alejandro Cremades

Watchlist

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Film Tetris A surprisingly tense lesson on licensing, deal structure and global business.

TV Series Made for Love A pointed look at surveillance products and founder god complexes.

Film Corporate An early Bollywood look at corporate strategy, rivalry and the ethics of winning.

Documentary Fyre Fraud A complementary view of the same failure focused on the founder.

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

Documentary Becoming Warren Buffett Foundational on long term thinking, compounding and clear principles.

Film Moneyball A favorite among founders on data, contrarian strategy and resource constraints.

TV Series Suits Useful on closing deals, managing clients and building a firm and a brand.

TV Series Breaking Bad Often read as a study of product quality, scaling, distribution and ruthless growth.

Film Mitron A light startup story about finding purpose by building something of your own.

AI tools

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Video & audio Sora

Automation & agents Zapier

Assistants Qwen

Coding bolt.new

Research & search You.com

Video & audio Suno

Assistants Gemini 3 founders use it

Automation & agents Make

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