Ahmedabad

DeepTech Startups Meetup in Ahmedabad

Name: DeepTech Startups Meetup in Ahmedabad
Start: 2024-03-01T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2024-03-01T20:00:00+05:30
Location: Ahmedabad University, Room No 100, 1st Floor, University Centre, Gate No 12, University Road, Near Commerce Six Road, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009.

<div>We'll have the candid panel conversation with DeepTech founders and operators which will be followed by open pitches from early stage founders.</div>

We'll have the candid panel conversation with DeepTech founders and operators which will be followed by open pitches from early stage founders.

Friday, 1 March 2024

6:00–8:00 PM IST

Ahmedabad University, Room No 100, 1st Floor, University Centre, Gate No 12, University Road, Near Commerce Six Road, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009.

Ahmedabad

Jatin, Harshal + 10 others went See who came

Hosts & speakers 4

Jatin Chaudhary Host

CEO · eChai Ventures

Harshal Trivedi Speaker

Founder & CEO, Tusker AI

Nisarg Pandya Speaker

CEO, drivebuddyAI

Tanvi Shah Rangwala

Startup Investor · VentureStudio

Going 8

Viraj Rajani

Co Founder · Digipple

Aashish Kharwade

Co-Founder · FastHire Manpower Solution

Ashutosh Raval

Founder & Cyber Security Professional ( Offensive Security) · Redhacks1 IT security pvt ltd

Jignesh Thakkar

Founder · LoudRevel

Manan Maheshwari

Growth Strategist | AI Practioner | Business Consultant · Consultriva

Rakesh Hansrajani

Founder · FastHire

Sumit Kasardekar

Founder · The Harsmit Ventures

Vaibhav Darji

Founder · LensCraft IT Ventures

Starting Up

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Naming your startup & domains Do I really need a .com domain, or is .io / .co / .in fine? For a serious brand, fight for the .com, it's still the default people type and trust....

Product design & UX basics What are the most common design mistakes that make an early product feel amateur, and how do I avoid them? The tells are usually spacing and consistency, not talent: cramped padding, five...

Founder-led sales What should my very first sales pitch actually say, and how long should it be? Skip the deck at first, a first pitch is a two-sentence problem statement plus a...

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...

Spotting trends & opportunities How do I catch a rising trend early when I'm building outside the big startup hubs and not in the room where these conversations happen? You don't need to be in Bangalore's cafes to spot trends, and being closer to a real...

Launching (again and again) How do I actually measure whether a launch worked, beyond the vanity upvotes and traffic spike? Traffic and upvotes tell you almost nothing; the questions that matter are how many...

Solo founder survival guide How do I make big decisions alone without a co-founder to sanity-check me? Build your own outside brain trust, advisors, a founder peer group, a coach, and a few...

Defining your ideal customer What's the difference between defining a niche and just being too small to matter? A good niche is small in headcount but deep in pain and willingness to pay, while a bad...

Founder mental health & burnout How do I stop tying my entire self-worth to whether the startup succeeds? When the company is your only identity, every bad day is an existential threat, and...

Pitch deck & storytelling How do I build a market size slide that is credible instead of the fantasy 'we just need 1% of a billion-dollar market'? Never lead with a top-down '1% of a huge TAM' number, investors have seen it a thousand...

Polls

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Money & Legal What do you use for accounting and bookkeeping?

Tally 1 vote · 100%

Zoho Books 0 votes · 0%

Vyapar 0 votes · 0%

QuickBooks 0 votes · 0%

Refrens 0 votes · 0%

myBillBook 0 votes · 0%

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Operations Where does your team work from?

Our own office 4 votes · 44%

Work from home 4 votes · 44%

DevX 1 vote · 11%

WeWork 0 votes · 0%

Awfis 0 votes · 0%

91springboard 0 votes · 0%

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

Bootstrapped 12 votes · 86%

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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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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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 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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Money & Legal Who did you incorporate your company with?

LegalWiz.in 3 votes · 60%

A local CA 2 votes · 40%

Vakilsearch 0 votes · 0%

IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%

ClearTax 0 votes · 0%

Razorpay Rize 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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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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Product & Engineering What is your website built on?

HTML 2 votes · 40%

WordPress 1 vote · 20%

Shopify 1 vote · 20%

A custom build 1 vote · 20%

Wix 0 votes · 0%

Squarespace 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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How to Remake America Radical Candor

The Top 5 Sales Scripts To Handle ANY Pricing Objection 30 Minutes to President's Club

How Do I Fix My Motivation System? Deep Questions

Has AI Conquered Coding? (It’s Not So Simple…) Deep Questions

The Psychology of Building and Selling a SaaS: 5 Lessons Exits Teach Founders Startups for the Rest of Us

This $1.5 Trillion Industry Still Runs on Paper and Fax Machines Y Combinator

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

Garner Health Founder on Measuring Doctor Quality, The AI Landscape & What Improves Healthcare The Logan Bartlett Show

New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Makes SHOCKING Decision The Pomp Podcast

The Military's Nuclear Submarine Crew Are The Smartest People on Earth Noah Kagan Presents

Books

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The Culture Code Daniel Coyle

Deep Work Cal Newport

The Startup of You Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha

Startup Communities Brad Feld

The Cold Start Problem Andrew Chen

Invisible Engines David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee

Everybody Writes Ann Handley

Articulating Design Decisions Tom Greever

Misbehaving Richard H. Thaler

Storynomics Robert McKee and Thomas Gerace

Watchlist

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Documentary Something Ventured Origin story of venture capital and the founder investor relationship.

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

Film The Founder A definitive case on systems, franchising and the ruthless side of scaling.

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

TV Series Misaeng: Incomplete Life Honest on corporate life, hierarchy and proving yourself inside an organization.

TV Series Succession A family business is still a family.

TV Series Guilty Minds Useful on building a practice, ethics and the business behind the law.

TV Series Made in Heaven A genuine founder story about running a services business, managing clients and holding...

TV Series Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story A landmark Indian series on ambition, markets, risk and the thin line between genius...

Film The Wolf of Wall Street A loud lesson on sales energy, culture and where ambition turns toxic.

AI tools

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Writing & content Grammarly

Video & audio Pika

Video & audio HeyGen

Video & audio Veo

Data & analytics Rows

Coding Devin

Design & images Krea

Automation & agents Gumloop

Assistants DeepSeek

Design & images Flux

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.

Parikh Assurance LLP