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eChai SaaS Social: Mumbai edition

eChai Ventures will be hosting the curated gathering with the SaaS founders and leaders to connect, share and collaborate.

eChai Ventures will be hosting the curated gathering with the SaaS founders and leaders to connect, share and collaborate.

Saturday, 15 July 2023
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM IST
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While you're here, take a look at what the network is reading, rating, and building with.

Starting Up

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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...
Grants & non-dilutive funding Which incubator or accelerator should I join purely to unlock grant money, and what do they take in return? Choose the incubator by the grants and infrastructure it unlocks, then read the fine...
Making the leap When should I quit, before or after I have traction? For most people, quit after you have a signal, a paying customer, a waitlist, an offer...
Solo founder survival guide How do I fight the isolation of building completely on my own? Manufacture the community you don't have built-in: join a founder Slack or local group,...
Talking to customers & user research What questions should I actually ask in a customer interview? Ask about the past and the concrete, not the future and the hypothetical. 'Walk me...
Founder-market fit How do I honestly test my founder-market fit before I quit my job? Run a cheap dress rehearsal while you still have income. Spend a month talking to 20...
Mentors, advisors & network How do I find a mentor for one specific gap like sales, hiring, or pricing rather than a generalist? General 'startup mentors' are overrated. What moves the needle is someone who solved...
Productivity & time for founders How do I run my life on WhatsApp without it running me, when every investor, customer, and vendor in India is in there? Treat WhatsApp as an inbox, not a nervous system. Turn off notification badges, silence...
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...
Finding & working with developers When should I stop using an agency and hire my first in-house developer? Move in-house when the product is core to your business and you are changing it every...

Polls

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Money & Legal Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?
Hirva Bhatt Akshay Solanki Kishan Parekh Harsha Bhurani Ayyan Karmakar Brijesh Tekrawala Chinmay Parekh Pragnesh Shah +23
ICICI Bank 13 votes · 36%
HDFC Bank 9 votes · 25%
Kotak Mahindra Bank 8 votes · 22%
IDFC First Bank 2 votes · 6%
State Bank of India 1 vote · 3%
Yes Bank 1 vote · 3%
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Sales & Marketing What do you publish your newsletter with?
Harry Rajput Naitik Panchal Nandan Shukla Ritwik Joshi Viraj Rajani Rushabh Shah
Mailchimp 3 votes · 33%
Substack 3 votes · 33%
Zoho Campaigns 2 votes · 22%
Brevo 1 vote · 11%
Beehiiv 0 votes · 0%
Kit (ConvertKit) 0 votes · 0%
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Product & Engineering What is your website built on?
Anuj Dalal Pragnesh Shah Nandan Shukla Ritwik Joshi
HTML 2 votes · 40%
WordPress 1 vote · 20%
Shopify 1 vote · 20%
A custom build 1 vote · 20%
Wix 0 votes · 0%
Squarespace 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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Operations Which courier partner ships your orders?
Anuj Dalal Manan Maheshwari Nandan Shukla
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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Sales & Marketing What runs your marketing automation?
Jatin Chaudhary Yash Shah Rahul Kumar Viraj Rajani
HubSpot 1 vote · 25%
MoEngage 1 vote · 25%
Others 1 vote · 25%
Retner.ai 1 vote · 25%
Customer.io 0 votes · 0%
Braze 0 votes · 0%
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Sales & Marketing What do you schedule and manage social media with?
Yash Shah Bhavesh Patel Manan Maheshwari
Sprout Social 1 vote · 25%
SocialPilot 1 vote · 25%
Others 1 vote · 25%
Brands.live 1 vote · 25%
Buffer 0 votes · 0%
Hootsuite 0 votes · 0%
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AI Which tool do you vibe code with most?
Kush Prajapati Aishwarya N Siddhant Trivedi Manan Maheshwari Satish Kumar Pabbathi Ansh Varma Kishan Parekh Haripriya Epuri +10
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 Which CRM do you use?
Harry Rajput Bhavesh Patel
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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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People & Hiring How do you run payroll and HR?
Sharib Sultan Amish Trivedi Manan Maheshwari
Keka 2 votes · 67%
RazorpayX Payroll 1 vote · 33%
GreytHR 0 votes · 0%
Zoho Payroll 0 votes · 0%
Kredily 0 votes · 0%
Darwinbox 0 votes · 0%
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Asks

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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
Customers & demand I'm looking for first users or design partners to pilot what we're building. Vivart Patel

Podcasts

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The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more) The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more) Lenny's Podcast
Jatin Chaudhary
Episode 262: Organizing Product Teams Around Value Episode 262: Organizing Product Teams Around Value Product Thinking
Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey Halpern Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey Halpern Huberman Lab
AI, Data Centers, and the Infrastructure Needed to Power Them | a16z AI, Data Centers, and the Infrastructure Needed to Power Them | a16z a16z
How Top 1% Marketers Are Shifting Their Strategy in Q3 2026 How Top 1% Marketers Are Shifting Their Strategy in Q3 2026 Marketing Against the Grain
The Truth About AI Running Companies The Truth About AI Running Companies My First Million
How to Invite Creativity into Your Life | Rose B. Simpson, Debbie Millman | TED How to Invite Creativity into Your Life | Rose B. Simpson, Debbie Millman | TED Startup Grind
Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview BG2 Pod
The STRENGTH Of The US Dollar Will SEND STOCKS MUCH HIGHER The STRENGTH Of The US Dollar Will SEND STOCKS MUCH HIGHER The Pomp Podcast
Why AI Robotics Is Stalled Why AI Robotics Is Stalled The Information

Books

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Stay Hungry Stay Foolish Stay Hungry Stay Foolish Rashmi Bansal
Rahul Sharma
Continuous Discovery Habits Continuous Discovery Habits Teresa Torres
Poor Charlie's Almanack Poor Charlie's Almanack Charles T. Munger, edited by Peter D. Kaufman
The Network Imperative The Network Imperative Barry Libert, Megan Beck, and Jerry Wind
The Art of Startup Fundraising The Art of Startup Fundraising Alejandro Cremades
The Power Law The Power Law Sebastian Mallaby
The Challenger Sale The Challenger Sale Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
An Elegant Puzzle An Elegant Puzzle Will Larson
Misbehaving Misbehaving Richard H. Thaler
Out of the Crisis Out of the Crisis W. Edwards Deming

Watchlist

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Docudrama Valley of the Boom Strong primer on the first internet gold rush, hype cycles and the bust that followed.
Docuseries Abstract: The Art of Design Excellent on craft, taste and how design shapes products and brands.
Film The Founder A definitive case on systems, franchising and the ruthless side of scaling.
Viraj Rajani Dhruv Dattani Jaymin Bhavsar Jatin Chaudhary
Docuseries The Toys That Built America A fun source of branding and product stories in consumer goods.
TV Series Entourage A fun look at agents, deal making, personal brand and managing a small team.
Film Sui Dhaaga A grassroots entrepreneurship story about self reliance, craft and building a brand.
Dhruv Dattani Kunjan Atara
Documentary Something Ventured Origin story of venture capital and the founder investor relationship.
Miniseries Inventing Anna A cautionary study of fundraising on image, social proof and the appetite of investors.
TV Series Mad Men Deep on brand, persuasion, agency building and reinvention of self and company.
TV Series City of Dreams A succession and power story that rhymes with founder families and control of an...

AI tools

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Writing & content Grammarly Share how you use it →
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Design & images DALL·E Share how you use it →
Assistants Microsoft Copilot 1 founder use it
Vishal Tiwari
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Coding v0 Share how you use it →
Video & audio Descript Share how you use it →
Coding Zed Share how you use it →
Coding OpenAI Codex 1 founder use it
Anil Motwani
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Coding Aider Share how you use it →
Writing & content Rytr Share how you use it →

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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