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eChai RoundTable - Theme - eCommerce @ EngineerBabu

Name: eChai RoundTable - Theme - eCommerce @ EngineerBabu
Start: 2015-08-08T22:30:00+05:30
End: 2015-08-09T00:30:00+05:30
Location: EngineerBabu, 108 (1st Floor), Trade House, South Tukoganj, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 452007

Happened

Saturday, 8 August 2015, 10:30 pm - 12:30 am

EngineerBabu, 108 (1st Floor), Trade House, South Tukoganj, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 452007

Indore

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Along with our weekly #UXMorning programs in association with Wow Communications and Uber - now we will be hosting weekly #eChaiRoundTable programs also. eChai RoundTables are theme-based/sector specific knowledge sharing programs i.e. Agriculture, Cleantech, Healthcare, Internet of Things, Food & Beverages, Sports, Media & Entertainment, Education, Arts & Culture, SMAC & many others. eChai Ventures is hosting the 'eChai RoundTable - Theme - e-Commerce' where we'll have Entrepreneurs building businesses around e-commerce and they will be sharing their entrepreneurial journey, insights and perspective about industry trends which will be followed by interactive dialogue. The eCommerce sector has seen unprecedented growth in 2014. The growth was driven by rapid technology adoption led by the increasing use of devices such as smartphones and tablets, and access to the internet through broadband, 3G, etc, which led to an increased online consumer base. Furthermore, favoured demographics and a growing internet user base helped aid this growth. In terms of highlights, the growth shown by homegrown players such as Flipkart and Snapdeal and the huge investor interest around these companies displayed the immense potential of the market. With the entry of eCommerce behemoths such as Amazon and Alibaba, the competition has intensified further. The Indian government’s ambitious Digital India project and the modernisation of India Post will also affect the eCommerce sector. The Digital India project aims to offer a one-stop shop for government services that will have the mobile phone as the backbone of its delivery mechanism. The programme will give a strong boost to the eCommerce market as bringing the internet and broadband to remote corners of the country will give rise to an increase in trade and efficient warehousing and will also present a potentially huge market for goods to be sold. In this milieu, it is interesting to have a healthy discussion and viewpoints on what shall be the future of the e-commerce industry. Uber Indore is the Support Partner for the event. All those who shall attend this meet shall be given free ride by Uber. eChai RoundTable - Theme - e-Commerce : Venue Partner: EngineerBabu, 108 (1st Floor), Trade House, South Tukoganj, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 452007 Date : 08th August 2015, Saturday Time : 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm Support Partner: Uber Indore This program is open for all. All are welcome! Join the conversation at eChai.in to get connected with fellow entrepreneurs from all over the world. Speaker profiles : 1) Abhineet Agarwal, Founder, PulpyPapaya. A unique name to start off with, the first thing people ask him is why this unusual name and that's where the whole journey begins. Handcrafted items especially in leather are the speciality of PulpyPapaya. Hear him out on 8th August! https://www.facebook.com/pulpypapayastore] 2) Mayur Sethi, Founder, Hoppingo. A shopping site that just doesn't sit and sell items. It is an interactive platform where people put in their reviews and contribute to the online shopping culture. Buy and go hopping.. https://www.facebook.com/GoHoppingo] 3) Avinash Seth, Founder of Wahanpar - An easy shopping place that enables you to buy from sellers within your city itself. This brings sellers and buyers closer in proximity. https://www.facebook.com/wahapar] 4) Abdul Kadir, Founder of EzzyBazzar. EzzyBazzar has everything for the whole family. This makes it easy for the family shopping to be done in one store itself. https://www.facebook.com/ezzybazaar.net] Feel free to ask any specific question to any of the above (speakers) entrepreneurs here in the comment section. Do checkout the QnA in comments, this is one of the most interesting part of the eChai programs.

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.