Ahmedabad

eChai After Hours with Founders in Ahmedabad

Name: eChai After Hours with Founders in Ahmedabad
Start: 2024-07-27T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2024-07-27T20:00:00+05:30
Location: IIMA Ventures, IIM Ahmedabad New Campus.

<div>This will be small curated group of founders and operators where each person presents a marketing or business challenge or question, and everyone helps with suggestions and solutions.</div>

This will be small curated group of founders and operators where each person presents a marketing or business challenge or question, and everyone helps with suggestions and solutions.

Saturday, 27 July 2024

6:00–8:00 PM IST

IIMA Ventures, IIM Ahmedabad New Campus.

Ahmedabad

Jatin, Shrijay + 2 others went See who came

Hosts & speakers 1

Jatin Chaudhary Host

CEO · eChai Ventures

Going 3

Harsha Bhurani

Founder · Hummingbird Talent ( An eChai Company )

Shrijay Sheth

Founder · Legalwiz.in

Jaydip Parikh

Chief Storyteller · Tej SolPro Digital Pvt. Ltd.

Starting Up

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Founder mindset & resilience How do I tell my parents I'm quitting a stable job to start up, and survive the pressure that follows? Have the conversation once, clearly, with a runway number and a timeline attached, then...

Spotting trends & opportunities What are the most common mistakes founders make when they try to build on a hot trend? The classic mistakes are joining a trend at its peak, building the trend instead of a...

Failure, pivots & shutdowns How do I know if I've truly validated the pivot before I bet the company on it? Do not run the pivot on faith the way you may have run the first idea. Before you...

Failure, pivots & shutdowns How do I tell my investors we need to pivot without them losing confidence in me? Frame the pivot as a decision you are already making with conviction, not a question...

Angel & seed fundraising How do I create momentum and FOMO so investors commit instead of stalling? Run the whole process in parallel and time-boxed so investors feel a real deadline and...

Making the leap Everyone I know says quitting is reckless. How do I handle non-founder friends and family who think I'm making a mistake? Stop seeking permission from people who have never done this; a salaried relative...

Naming your startup & domains How do I brief a designer or an AI tool to generate name ideas that don't all sound the same? Give constraints, not vibes: state what you do in one line, name three brands whose...

Finding & shaping ideas How do I know if my idea is a real problem or just a 'nice to have'? A real problem is frequent, painful, and expensive enough that people are already...

Paid acquisition basics My cost per click looks fine but nobody buys. Where do I even start fixing this? A cheap click that doesn't convert is almost always a landing page or offer problem,...

Social media & personal brand How do I turn an audience into actual customers or signups? Grow the audience with free, genuinely useful content, then convert with a single clear...

Polls

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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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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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Product & Engineering Which no-code builder do you ship with?

Framer 3 votes · 43%

Webflow 1 vote · 14%

Wix 1 vote · 14%

WordPress 1 vote · 14%

Shopify 1 vote · 14%

Squarespace 0 votes · 0%

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AI Which AI coding tool do you build with?

Claude Code 3 votes · 43%

Cursor 1 vote · 14%

OpenAI Codex 1 vote · 14%

Replit 1 vote · 14%

Lovable 1 vote · 14%

GitHub Copilot 0 votes · 0%

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Money & Legal What manages your cap table and ESOPs?

Carta 0 votes · 0%

AngelList 0 votes · 0%

Pulley 0 votes · 0%

Cake Equity 0 votes · 0%

Qapita 0 votes · 0%

Trica 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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Essentials Where does your team keep passwords and secrets?

Google Password Manager 6 votes · 55%

Apple Passwords 3 votes · 27%

LastPass 1 vote · 9%

Dashlane 1 vote · 9%

1Password 0 votes · 0%

Bitwarden 0 votes · 0%

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People & Hiring Where do you hire your team from?

LinkedIn 1 vote · 20%

Wellfound 1 vote · 20%

Referrals 1 vote · 20%

A recruitment partner 1 vote · 20%

Internships converted to full-time 1 vote · 20%

Naukri 0 votes · 0%

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Essentials Which email service runs your work inbox?

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Google Workspace 20 votes · 61%

Microsoft 365 (Outlook) 6 votes · 18%

Zoho Mail 6 votes · 18%

Superhuman 1 vote · 3%

Titan 0 votes · 0%

Neo 0 votes · 0%

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Product & Engineering Where does your team write things down?

Google Docs 6 votes · 60%

Notion 2 votes · 20%

Obsidian 1 vote · 10%

Others 1 vote · 10%

Confluence 0 votes · 0%

Coda 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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Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more) Lenny's Podcast

How Google is Trying to Catch Anthropic The Information

How to Remake America Radical Candor

Revolt of the Rich Radical Candor

I BATTLED Peter Schiff Over Gold Vs. Bitcoin On National TV The Pomp Podcast

Coatue Pt2. Open AI’s Kevin Weil Dives into All Things ChatGPT | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner BG2 Pod

Mozilla Head of Firefox on The Future of Agentic Browsers & Open Internet | Ajit Varma | E300 The Product Podcast

From Broke College Student to $20M Brand in 10,000 Stores | ESW Beauty Foundr

Why People Quit So Easily? Ft. Nir Eyal Think School

How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Ended Up Running American TV | The Untold Amagi Story The Neon Show

Books

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Obviously Awesome April Dunford

Atomic Habits James Clear

Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman

Designing for the Digital Age Kim Goodwin

Get Backed Evan Baehr and Evan Loomis

The Innovator's Solution Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor

Crucial Conversations Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler

Founder's Pocket Guide: Startup Valuation Stephen R. Poland

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind Al Ries and Jack Trout

You Can Negotiate Anything Herb Cohen

Watchlist

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

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

TV Series Halt and Catch Fire The people behind the personal-computing and internet booms.

Documentary Generation Startup An honest look at the daily grind of early founders.

TV Series StartUp A darker take on what founders will tolerate to keep a company alive and funded.

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

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

Documentary The Pixar Story A creative company story about culture, technology and patient bets.

TV Series Mr. Robot A look at the technical and ethical underbelly of tech and the systems founders build on.

Film Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year A beloved Indian story on values, sales and building a team you trust.

AI tools

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Video & audio CapCut 1 founder use it

Automation & agents n8n

Assistants Poe

Coding Devin

Coding Aider

Meetings & notes Granola

Assistants DeepSeek

Automation & agents Lindy

Video & audio Descript

Design & images Midjourney

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