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eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru

Name: eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru
Start: 2024-07-07T11:00:00+05:30
End: 2024-07-07T13:00:00+05:30
Location: Draper Startup House Koramangala, Startup Lane, No.384, 1st A Main Rd, 7th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095.

<div>Join us for eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru on July 07, 2024! 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 Bengaluru on July 07, 2024! 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.

Sunday, 7 July 2024

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM IST

Draper Startup House Koramangala, Startup Lane, No.384, 1st A Main Rd, 7th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095.

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Starting Up

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Building your MVP My MVP needs users to log in, pay, and get notifications. Should I build auth, payments, and email myself or glue together no-code and third-party tools? For a first MVP, buy or borrow everything that isn't the thing you're testing. Auth...

Retention, referral & virality Referral or paid ads, which should a bootstrapped founder with almost no marketing budget lean on first? With little cash, referral usually wins on economics but only once you have a product...

Pricing & packaging How do I run a real pricing experiment to test a higher price without tanking my signups? Test the new price on new traffic only, hold your existing customers at their current...

Getting your first 10 customers How do I get customers who don't already know me when I have no brand, no audience, and no case studies yet? With nothing to point to, you borrow trust: go where your customers already gather (a...

Understanding the problem (JTBD) Who are my real competitors once I think in jobs to be done? Anything the customer currently 'hires' to get the same job done, including a...

Unit economics & modeling Investors keep asking about my "magic number" and payback efficiency. What are these and do they matter at my stage? The magic number measures how much new recurring revenue each rupee of sales and...

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...

Understanding the problem (JTBD) How do I turn a job to be done into product and messaging decisions? Write the job as a struggling-moment statement ('when I ___, I want to ___, so I can...

IP, licenses & regulatory Can I protect my idea with a patent or an NDA before I launch? A pure idea can't be patented, patents protect a specific, novel, non-obvious...

Finding a co-founder Can I find a co-founder in a different city, and how do we make a remote founding team work? Yes, and for founders outside the big startup hubs a remote co-founder is often the...

Polls

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Product & Engineering Which design tool does your team use?

Canva 5 votes · 42%

Figma 3 votes · 25%

Framer 1 vote · 8%

Adobe Photoshop 1 vote · 8%

Adobe Illustrator 1 vote · 8%

Webflow 1 vote · 8%

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Sales & Marketing What powers your customer support?

That Was AI 1 vote · 100%

Zendesk 0 votes · 0%

Freshdesk 0 votes · 0%

Intercom 0 votes · 0%

HubSpot Service 0 votes · 0%

Zoho Desk 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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Operations How do people book time with you?

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Google Calendar appointments 8 votes · 31%

Calendly 7 votes · 27%

Cal.com 4 votes · 15%

Phone Call or Whatsapp 3 votes · 12%

Microsoft Bookings 2 votes · 8%

Zoho Bookings 1 vote · 4%

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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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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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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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Operations What do you get documents signed with?

DocuSign 3 votes · 50%

Adobe Acrobat Sign 1 vote · 17%

PandaDoc 1 vote · 17%

Others 1 vote · 17%

Zoho Sign 0 votes · 0%

Dropbox Sign 0 votes · 0%

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AI Which tool do you vibe code with most?

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Claude Code 16 votes · 64%

Cursor 3 votes · 12%

Lovable 3 votes · 12%

v0 1 vote · 4%

Windsurf 1 vote · 4%

Rocket 1 vote · 4%

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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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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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Pelted With Bricks for 5 Days as a Rookie Cop — Cathy Lanier The Tim Ferriss Show

Where is antimatter hiding? - Physics explains the mystery of missing antimatter | Don Lincoln Lex Fridman Podcast

Zerodha ke kuch naye features hain jo shayad aapne miss kar diye The Daily Brief

How to Build a Manufacturing Company in America | Jim Belosic, SendCutSend The Peel

How to use Codex as your AI data analyst Marketing Against the Grain

Can Meta Make the Next Polymarket? The Information

Season 13 Finale: Who Needs VC Anyway? The Pitch

Anthropic Customers are Being Overcharged The Information

Reddit’s Model for a Better Internet | Steve Huffman | TED Startup Grind

Sutter Health CEO Warner Thomas on Digital Transformation and the Future of Health Systems The Logan Bartlett Show

Books

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Term Sheets & Valuations Alex Wilmerding

Modern Monopolies Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson

Interviewing Users Steve Portigal

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design Alan Cooper

Powerful Patty McCord

The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason

Different Youngme Moon

Mapping Experiences James Kalbach

Hacking Growth Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown

Venture Deals Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

Watchlist

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Film Pelli Choopulu A warm and realistic story of young founders building a food business from nothing.

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

Documentary Becoming Warren Buffett Foundational on long term thinking, compounding and clear principles.

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

Anthology Black Mirror Provokes hard questions about the products founders build and their second order effects.

Film Mitron A light startup story about finding purpose by building something of your own.

TV Series Breaking Bad Often read as a study of product quality, scaling, distribution and ruthless growth.

TV Series Betas Light but recognizable picture of early stage hustle, pitching and cofounder friction.

Documentary Print the Legend A real time look at hardware startups, funding pressure and founder fallout.

Film Jobs An accessible founder biopic on the early Apple journey.

AI tools

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Writing & content QuillBot

Assistants Poe

Video & audio Udio

Automation & agents Lindy

Assistants Microsoft Copilot 1 founder use it

Research & search Consensus

Video & audio ElevenLabs 1 founder use it

Assistants Gemini 3 founders use it

Writing & content Sudowrite

Automation & agents Manus

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.

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