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Ahmedabad

eChai's Women Entrepreneurs Social with GVFL

Thursday, 2 May 2024
6:30–8:30 PM IST
Ekta Shah Himani Kankaria Nishi Jain Ekta, Himani + 3 others went See who came
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Spotting trends & opportunities What are the biggest emerging opportunities in India right now? The durable Indian bets sit on real shifts: rising India1 disposable income, cheap data...
Incorporation & legal setup What legal setup do I need beyond incorporation (IP, contracts, compliance)? Assign all IP to the company from every founder and contractor in writing, use clean...
Talking to customers & user research How do I talk to customers without them just telling me what I want to hear? Stop pitching and start interrogating their past. Ask about what they actually did last...
Growth fundamentals & metrics What is a good retention curve and how do I know if mine is flattening? Plot the percent of a cohort still active by week or month since signup, not cumulative...
Paid acquisition basics When is it too early to spend on paid ads, and what should I do with that money instead? If you can't yet convert warm, free traffic (friends, communities, organic posts) into...
Shipping, iterating & roadmap How do product teams keep a consistent shipping rhythm as they grow? Separate your planning cadence from your execution cadence and lean on async updates...
Selling to enterprises (B2B) Should I hire a salesperson yet, or keep selling founder-led until I hit a certain revenue? Keep selling founder-led until you've closed roughly your first 10 enterprise deals...
Finding a co-founder How do investors judge a founding team, and does a solo founder get penalized? Investors bet on teams because startups are too hard for one person to carry, and a...
Making the leap Can I build on the side while employed without getting into legal trouble? Usually yes, but read your employment contract first, the danger is not moonlighting...
Naming your startup & domains What are the most common naming mistakes that hurt early startups? The usual traps: names nobody can spell after hearing them, clever misspellings that...

Polls

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Sales & Marketing How do you track product and web analytics?
Darshan Thakkar Akshay Solanki Manan Maheshwari Amish Trivedi Bhavesh Patel Nandan Shukla Ritwik Joshi Viraj Rajani
Google Analytics 6 votes · 46%
Microsoft Clarity 6 votes · 46%
PostHog 1 vote · 8%
Mixpanel 0 votes · 0%
Amplitude 0 votes · 0%
Plausible 0 votes · 0%
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Sales & Marketing What do you run WhatsApp for business on?
Aishwarya N Rahul Sharma Manan Maheshwari Manish Nayee Rahul Kumar Ritwik Joshi Rushabh Shah Kush Prajapati
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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Operations Which cloud telephony runs your business calls?
Exotel 0 votes · 0%
Knowlarity 0 votes · 0%
MyOperator 0 votes · 0%
Servetel 0 votes · 0%
Ozonetel 0 votes · 0%
Kaleyra 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 Who handles your GST and tax filing?
Akshay Solanki Amish Trivedi Harry Rajput Pragnesh Shah Anil Motwani Nandan Shukla Rushabh Shah
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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Money & Legal What do you send your invoices with?
Anuj Dalal Amish Trivedi Anil Motwani Nandan Shukla
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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AI Which AI assistant do you reach for first?
Aryan Panchal Jatin Chaudhary Kush Prajapati Rushabh Shah
Claude 3 votes · 60%
ChatGPT 1 vote · 20%
Gemini 1 vote · 20%
Perplexity 0 votes · 0%
Grok 0 votes · 0%
Microsoft Copilot 0 votes · 0%
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Operations Where do you get your team's health insurance?
Sharib Sultan Amish Trivedi Nadeem Jafri Kush Prajapati
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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Sales & Marketing What do you publish your newsletter with?
Brijesh Patel Harry Rajput Naitik Panchal Nandan Shukla Ritwik Joshi Viraj Rajani Rushabh Shah
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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Operations Which internet provider keeps your team online?
Aryan Panchal Harry Rajput Kishan Parekh Rahul Sharma Dhruv Dattani Anil Motwani Kunal Chaudhari Vishal Tiwari +9
Jio (JioFiber / Jio Business) 9 votes · 50%
Airtel (Xstream Fiber / Airtel Business) 7 votes · 39%
BSNL 2 votes · 11%
ACT Fibernet 0 votes · 0%
Tata Play Fiber 0 votes · 0%
Spectra 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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Is A Market Crash Coming?! Is A Market Crash Coming?! The Pomp Podcast
NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner BG2 Pod
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SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer | Equity Podcast SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer | Equity Podcast TechCrunch Equity
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Books

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Management Management Peter F. Drucker
The Founders The Founders Jimmy Soni
The Catalyst The Catalyst Jonah Berger
The Z Factor The Z Factor Subhash Chandra with Pranjal Sharma
The Mom Test The Mom Test Rob Fitzpatrick
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Setting the Table Setting the Table Danny Meyer
Poor Charlie's Almanack Poor Charlie's Almanack Charles T. Munger, edited by Peter D. Kaufman
Margin of Safety Margin of Safety Seth A. Klarman
Work Rules! Work Rules! Laszlo Bock
The Culture Map The Culture Map Erin Meyer

Watchlist

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Film The Big Bull An Indian markets story on ambition, leverage and the limits of hype.
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Film Joy An inventor to entrepreneur story on patents, manufacturing and selling.
Jaymin Bhavsar
Film Maska An Indian story on family business, legacy and choosing your path.
TV Series Severance Work-life balance, taken literally.
Docuseries Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates A study of how a founder mind approaches problems at scale.
Documentary WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn A clear eyed companion to the WeWork story on hype and valuation.
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AI tools

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