Bengaluru

eChai FinTech Day in Bengaluru

Name: eChai FinTech Day in Bengaluru
Start: 2024-08-03T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2024-08-03T20:00:00+05:30
Location: Urban Vault HSR Layout 477, Terrace, 24th Main Rd, Parangi Palaya, 1st Sector, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560102.

<div>Join us for eChai FinTech Day in Bengaluru on 3rd August, Saturday. This event will feature insightful panel discussions with leading FinTech founders and operators.<br><br></div><div>Discover valuable insights from their experiences, challenges, and triumphs as they share strategies for innovating and scaling financial technology solutions.<br><br></div><div>Whether you're an established FinTech company, a startup, or simply interested in the FinTech space, you'll gain actionable insights and connect with an awesome network of industry professionals.<br><br></div>

Join us for eChai FinTech Day in Bengaluru on 3rd August, Saturday. This event will feature insightful panel discussions with leading FinTech founders and operators.
Discover valuable insights from their experiences, challenges, and triumphs as they share strategies for innovating and scaling financial technology solutions.
Whether you're an established FinTech company, a startup, or simply interested in the FinTech space, you'll gain actionable insights and connect with an awesome network of industry professionals.

Saturday, 3 August 2024

6:00–8:00 PM IST

Urban Vault HSR Layout 477, Terrace, 24th Main Rd, Parangi Palaya, 1st Sector, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560102.

Bengaluru

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Chaitanya Badave

Founder · Grab Or Miss

Starting Up

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Finding & working with developers How do I hire good engineers in India when everyone's competing for the same talent? Lean hard on your network, alumni, ex-colleagues, referrals, because job portals alone...

Valuation, SAFEs & term sheets Can I even use a SAFE in India, or do I have to do a CCPS or convertible note? A US-style SAFE has no clean legal home under Indian company law, so most...

Incubators, accelerators & competitions How do I get into YC or a top accelerator, what do they actually look for? Top accelerators bet on founders first: they want a clear, fast-moving team, evidence...

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...

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...

Finding & shaping ideas How do I come up with startup ideas that aren't just 'Uber for X'? Don't sit in a room brainstorming ideas on purpose; that's how you get derivative junk....

Building your MVP How do I decide the single riskiest assumption my MVP should test instead of trying to prove the whole idea at once? List every belief your business needs to be true (people want this, they'll pay this...

Competitive & market research What if my customers say they have no competitors, is that good or bad? Almost always bad, because it usually means the job isn't painful enough to spend money...

Naming your startup & domains How much should I actually spend on naming and domains as a bootstrapped founder? Almost nothing on the name itself: you don't need an agency or a naming firm at the...

Incubators, accelerators & competitions How do I write an accelerator application that actually gets read, and what do I put in the video? Answer the exact question asked in one or two crisp sentences, lead with traction or a...

Polls

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

Bootstrapped 14 votes · 88%

Angel investors 1 vote · 6%

A VC firm 1 vote · 6%

AngelList or LetsVenture syndicate 0 votes · 0%

Venture Catalysts or 100X.VC 0 votes · 0%

An accelerator 0 votes · 0%

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Product & Engineering Where do you manage projects and tasks?

Jira 2 votes · 33%

Others 2 votes · 33%

Asana 1 vote · 17%

ClickUp 1 vote · 17%

Notion 0 votes · 0%

Linear 0 votes · 0%

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Sales & Marketing What do you use for forms and surveys?

Google Forms 10 votes · 63%

Microsoft Forms 2 votes · 13%

Typeform 1 vote · 6%

Zoho Forms 1 vote · 6%

Others 1 vote · 6%

Youform 1 vote · 6%

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People & Hiring Which accelerator or incubator were you part of?

IIMA Ventures 3 votes · 43%

A state or govt incubator 3 votes · 43%

i-Hub 1 vote · 14%

Y Combinator 0 votes · 0%

Techstars 0 votes · 0%

Antler 0 votes · 0%

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Sales & Marketing What do you run WhatsApp for business on?

Just the WhatsApp Business app 5 votes · 63%

AiSensy 1 vote · 13%

BusinessOnBot 1 vote · 13%

Retner.ai 1 vote · 13%

Interakt 0 votes · 0%

Wati 0 votes · 0%

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

Google Veo 5 votes · 38%

DALL-E 2 votes · 15%

Adobe Firefly 2 votes · 15%

Midjourney 1 vote · 8%

Ideogram 1 vote · 8%

Leonardo AI 1 vote · 8%

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AI Which AI agents are running in your stack right now?

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Claude Code 19 votes · 30%

Claude Cowork 9 votes · 14%

Cursor 8 votes · 13%

Gemini Spark (Google) 6 votes · 9%

OpenAI Codex 4 votes · 6%

OpenCode 3 votes · 5%

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

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ICICI Bank 14 votes · 37%

HDFC Bank 9 votes · 24%

Kotak Mahindra Bank 9 votes · 24%

IDFC First Bank 2 votes · 5%

State Bank of India 1 vote · 3%

Yes Bank 1 vote · 3%

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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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Anti-matter & nuclear weapons: Why technology is always a double-edge sword | Don Lincoln Lex Fridman Podcast

Luke Burgis - The One and the Ninety Nine Radical Candor

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

The AI Frontier and How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else — Elad Gil The Tim Ferriss Show

Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305 This Week in Startups

How Warp Went From YC to a $60M Series B Y Combinator

“Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg No Priors

Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI [Entire Talk] Stanford eCorner

Episode 267: How OKRs Become Outputs Instead of Outcomes Product Thinking

Pregnant at 14, DC's Top Cop at 39 — The Unbelievable Story of Cathy Lanier The Tim Ferriss Show

Books

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Losing My Virginity Richard Branson

An Elegant Puzzle Will Larson

Management Peter F. Drucker

Brand Leadership David A. Aaker with Erich Joachimsthaler

Fooled by Randomness Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mastering the VC Game Jeffrey Bussgang

Cracking the PM Interview Gayle Laakmann McDowell and Jackie Bavaro

Onward Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon

The Total Money Makeover Dave Ramsey

Lean B2B Etienne Garbugli

Watchlist

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Docuseries The Food That Built America Strong on branding, distribution and category creation in consumer goods.

TV Series Billions A masterclass in power, negotiation, performance and high stakes decision making.

Film Ford v Ferrari Strong on engineering, teams and competing with a dominant rival.

Film Margin Call A tight study of risk, decision making under pressure and leadership.

TV Series TVF Pitchers The defining Indian startup story, widely watched in the founder community for its...

TV Series House of Lies A cynical but instructive look at consulting, selling advice and corporate dysfunction.

TV Series Upload Satirizes subscription products, tiered pricing and tech company power.

TV Series Scam 2003: The Telgi Story Another study of scaling an operation, in this case a criminal one, and how systems are...

TV Series Itaewon Class A pure underdog founder story about grit, values and competing with an incumbent.

Documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room A definitive case on culture, incentives and accounting that hides the truth.

AI tools

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Assistants Meta AI

Design & images Canva Magic Studio

Design & images Midjourney

Coding Claude Code 3 founders use it

Video & audio Suno

Research & search Elicit

Coding Cursor

Coding OpenAI Codex 1 founder use it

Assistants DeepSeek

Meetings & notes Otter.ai

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