Ahmedabad

eChai's Startup Open House in Ahmedabad with GVFL

Name: eChai's Startup Open House in Ahmedabad with GVFL
Start: 2025-01-23T18:30:00+05:30
End: 2025-01-23T20:30:00+05:30
Location: GVFL Ahmedabad, 1221/1222, 12th Floor, East Wing, Stratum @Venus Grounds, Nehrunagar, Ahmedabad – 380015, Gujarat.

<div>Join us for eChai's Startup Open House in Ahmedabad on January 23rd, Thursday.<br><br>Connect with fab startups and network with like-minded entrepreneurs in a vibrant, informal setting.<br><br></div><div>Discover new opportunities, share your ideas, and build meaningful relationships within the startup community. </div>

Join us for eChai's Startup Open House in Ahmedabad on January 23rd, Thursday.

Connect with fab startups and network with like-minded entrepreneurs in a vibrant, informal setting.
Discover new opportunities, share your ideas, and build meaningful relationships within the startup community.

Thursday, 23 January 2025

6:30–8:30 PM IST

GVFL Ahmedabad, 1221/1222, 12th Floor, East Wing, Stratum @Venus Grounds, Nehrunagar, Ahmedabad – 380015, Gujarat.

Ahmedabad

Satyen, Kunjan + 3 others went See who came

Hosts & speakers 1

Sharad Bansal Speaker

Founder & Managing Partner · Warmup Ventures

Going 4

Kunjan Atara

Freelance Graphic & UX/UI Designer · Freelancer

Satyen Engineer

Founder · Yhonk Tech Pvt Ltd

Bhavik Parikh

Performance Marketer · Mvtechlabs

Rahul Jhunjhunwala

Founder · Sportomic.com

Starting Up

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Competitive & market research How do I keep tracking competitors without it turning into a daily anxiety spiral that distracts me from my own product? Turn competitive watching from a compulsive habit into a scheduled ritual: batch it...

Founder mindset & resilience Is it normal to feel like a fraud when I have no idea what I'm doing? Yes, and it never fully goes away, every founder is improvising in public. The fix...

Should you raise? VC vs bootstrap What are the alternatives to VC and bootstrapping, like revenue-based financing, grants, or venture debt? If you have revenue but do not want to sell equity, revenue-based financing and venture...

Launching (again and again) How do I actually launch on Product Hunt and not embarrass myself? Read Product Hunt's own official launch guide first, it kills the common myths. Prepare...

Getting your first 10 customers Should I try to close my first 10 customers one by one, or run a small launch to get them all at once? For your very first customers, one by one usually beats a splashy launch, because each...

Understanding the problem (JTBD) I'm a non-technical founder validating an idea. How do I map the job before I've built anything to demo? You don't need a demo to understand a job, you need conversations, and the lack of a...

Bootstrapping & profitability How do I reach profitability (or ramen profitability) as fast as possible? Ramen profitability means covering the founders' basic living costs, get there and...

Co-founder agreements & equity I am a first-time founder outside the big metros and my co-founder is in Bengaluru. Does where we are based change how we split equity or set up the company? Location does not change the split: contribution, risk, and role do. What it does...

Investor updates & relations When should I actually ask my investors for warm intros, and how do I make it easy for them to say yes? Ask in every update, but make it specific enough that a distracted investor can forward...

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...

Polls

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Money & Legal Who handles your GST and tax filing?

My CA handles it 7 votes · 100%

ClearTax 0 votes · 0%

Zoho Books 0 votes · 0%

IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%

Quicko 0 votes · 0%

TaxBuddy 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 · 50%

A local CA 3 votes · 50%

Vakilsearch 0 votes · 0%

IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%

ClearTax 0 votes · 0%

Razorpay Rize 0 votes · 0%

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Product & Engineering Which design tool does your team use?

Canva 7 votes · 50%

Figma 3 votes · 21%

Framer 1 vote · 7%

Adobe Photoshop 1 vote · 7%

Adobe Illustrator 1 vote · 7%

Webflow 1 vote · 7%

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Sales & Marketing What do you publish your newsletter with?

Mailchimp 3 votes · 30%

Substack 3 votes · 30%

Zoho Campaigns 3 votes · 30%

Brevo 1 vote · 10%

Beehiiv 0 votes · 0%

Kit (ConvertKit) 0 votes · 0%

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Product & Engineering Which cloud or hosting is your product on?

AWS 4 votes · 33%

Google Cloud 2 votes · 17%

Others 2 votes · 17%

Cloudflare 1 vote · 8%

Railway 1 vote · 8%

Supabase 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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Essentials Which email service runs your work inbox?

+19

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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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 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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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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When to Sell Your SaaS Business: How to Get a 5x Better Offer Startups for the Rest of Us

How to manipulate people for good Behind the Brand

Kent Yoshimura, an Artist with a Dream, Made One Pivot that turned into a $100 Million Brand Behind the Brand

Why Everyone’s Suddenly Drinking Aperol Spritz Nudge

I Did OnePlus. Still, Nobody Wanted To Work For Us... WTF is with Nikhil Kamath

Uber CEO on AI, Autonomous Vehicles, and the Future of Transportation Invest Like the Best

$1.4M Ask: Can AI Fix Dirty Hotel Rooms? The Pitch

The Power of Habit Summarized by the Author | Charles Duhigg My First Million

Trump Asks OpenAI to Stagger Release of New Model, Google Pressures Publishers on AI Licensing The Information

AI Sells Labor, Not Software — Legendary Investor Elad Gil The Tim Ferriss Show

Books

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Radical Candor Kim Scott

Slicing Pie Mike Moyer

Do More Faster Brad Feld and David Cohen

Lean UX Jeff Gothelf with Josh Seiden

The Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker

Bad Blood John Carreyrou

Emotional Design Don Norman

Just Enough Research Erika Hall

The Personal MBA Josh Kaufman

Build Better Products Laura Klein

Watchlist

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Film The Pursuit of Happyness A grounded story of grit, resilience and betting on yourself.

TV Series City of Dreams A succession and power story that rhymes with founder families and control of an...

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

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

Film The Big Short Excellent on contrarian thinking, conviction and reading markets.

Film The Social Network The most influential founder film for a generation on cofounders, equity and speed.

Miniseries The Dropout Essential viewing on the line between bold vision and fraud, and how investors and...

TV Series Bombay Begums Strong on women in leadership, finance and the politics of climbing inside a company.

TV Series Entourage A fun look at agents, deal making, personal brand and managing a small team.

Docudrama The Men Who Built America A founder history of railroads, oil, steel and finance and how empires formed.

AI tools

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Writing & content Notion AI

Assistants Meta AI

Coding Windsurf

Assistants Poe

Design & images Canva Magic Studio

Assistants ChatGPT 3 founders use it

Assistants Claude 8 founders use it

Video & audio Udio

Data & analytics Rows

Research & search NotebookLM 1 founder use it

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