Building Your Founding Team: Insights on Finding Co-Founders and Early Employees

Name: Building Your Founding Team: Insights on Finding Co-Founders and Early Employees
Start: 2024-09-12T18:30:00+05:30
End: 2024-09-12T20:30:00+05:30
Location: S

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Thursday, 12 September 2024, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

About

<div><strong>This is part of </strong><a href="https://echai.ventures/thestartupcode"><strong>The Startup Code</strong></a><strong>, an open accelerator program by eChai Ventures and LegalWiz.in, designed for early-stage founders and aspiring entrepreneurs.</strong><br><br>Building a startup starts with finding the right people. But finding the perfect co-founders and early employees can be tough. <br><br>That’s why we’re bringing together founders who’ve been through it.<br><br></div><div>They’ll share what worked, the challenges they faced, and how they built their teams.<br><br></div><div>If you’re an early-stage or aspiring founder, this event is for you. You’ll get insights, a draft co-founders agreement, and a chance to connect with others looking for their ideal co-founders.<br><br></div><div>Join us for practical advice and meaningful connections.<br><br>This will be an online session.</div>

This is part of The Startup Code, an open accelerator program by eChai Ventures and LegalWiz.in, designed for early-stage founders and aspiring entrepreneurs. Building a startup starts with finding the right people. But finding the perfect co-founders and early employees can be tough. That’s why we’re bringing together founders who’ve been through it. They’ll share what worked, the challenges they faced, and how they built their teams. If you’re an early-stage or aspiring founder, this event is for you. You’ll get insights, a draft co-founders agreement, and a chance to connect with others looking for their ideal co-founders. Join us for practical advice and meaningful connections. This will be an online session.

Hosts & speakers

Founder · Legalwiz.in

Speaker

Charu Dhyani

Founder, Pro Zero Carbon · Hyderabad

Speaker

Pragya Mittal

Director, EVIFY · Surat

Co-founder · Brands.live

Speaker

Yash Shah

Co-founder · Momentum91

Anupama Panchal

Co-Founder & Chief of Product, Clientjoy · Ahmedabad

Who was there

Rushabh Shah

Managing Partner · STIR Advisors

Viraj Rajani

Co Founder · Digipple

Chaitanya Badave

Founder · Grab Or Miss

Harshit Gala

personal coach + mentor to founders

Nandan Shukla

Founder · Dicot Innovations

Abbas Kapasi

Founder · The 2x Mission

Adhirajsinh H. Jadeja

Founder & CEO · Prisha Sports Diary pvt ltd

Aditya Dave

CEO & Founder · Cibos Techno Solutions Private Limited

Financial Clarity Partner · Finance Clarity Partner

Kunal Gosrani

Founder · YO Books

Mallikarjuna Mustugatti

Manish Maheshwari

Velmora Asset management

Mehul Joisar

Founder · Digicians

Parth Gupta

Founder & CEO · Helomatrix

Piyush Mohapatra

Program Manager · IIT Bombay

Rahul Ninave

Founder & CEO · Secretspirit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

SDE Intern | Logistics & Supply chain Tech | Medicare · Ahmedabad

Sumit Kasardekar

Founder · The Harsmit Ventures

Sweety Patel

Founder · FactsScan

Vedant Vyas

Working Professional · Kraft Heinz

Yash Gadani

Apomind Edutech Pvt Ltd

𝐕𝐢𝐣𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐚

Psychologist & Founder · OneWithOneself

Vishal Patel

Volunteer · 99Barkville

Bhavik Parikh

Performance Marketer · Mvtechlabs

Lakshman Rupanagunta

Madhuri Jain

Product manager · EclinicalWorks

Samar Patel

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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.