Ahmedabad

eChai Sales & Marketing Social in Ahmedabad w/ DevX

Name: eChai Sales & Marketing Social in Ahmedabad w/ DevX
Start: 2023-01-07T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2023-01-07T20:00:00+05:30
Location: DevX, A-1101, 11th floor, The First B/h Keshav Baugh Party Plot Nr. Shivalik High-Street, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380015.

eChai Ventures and DevX will be hosting the curated gathering with the founders and sales & Marketing leaders to connect, share and collaborate.

Saturday, 7 January 2023

6:00–8:00 PM IST

DevX, A-1101, 11th floor, The First B/h Keshav Baugh Party Plot Nr. Shivalik High-Street, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380015.

Ahmedabad

Hosts & speakers 3

Aditya Dave Speaker

Founder, Cibos Techno Solutions

Anupriya Agarwal Speaker

Brand Growth Consultant

Rutvij Dasadia Speaker

Founder, Booz Scooters

Starting Up

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Website & landing page How do I build a landing page fast without knowing how to code? Use Carrd for a dead-simple one-pager (launch in an afternoon for a few dollars) or...

Startup finance & accounting How do I build a simple financial model for a pitch deck without pretending I can predict revenue three years out? Investors know your five-year forecast is fiction; what they're really testing is...

Should you raise? VC vs bootstrap Is my startup 'default alive' or 'default dead'? Ask one question: if your current expenses stay flat and revenue keeps growing at its...

Incubators, accelerators & competitions Is there a sector-specific incubator or accelerator for what I'm building (deeptech, biotech, agritech, fintech, climate)? If you are building hard tech, a general accelerator is often the wrong door:...

Angel & seed fundraising What documents and diligence do investors ask for at seed, and how do I get ready? Seed diligence is light but not zero: expect a data room with your deck, cap table,...

Shipping, iterating & roadmap How do I set a roadmap when half my revenue comes from one big customer who keeps asking for custom features? One big customer steering your roadmap is how a product startup slowly turns into a...

Grants & non-dilutive funding How long does a government grant actually take to hit my bank account, and how do I survive the wait? Assume 3 to 9 months from application to first disbursement, and often longer for...

Productivity & time for founders How do I stop saying yes to every coffee, podcast, and networking event and getting nothing shipped? Make your default no and your calendar do the enforcing. Batch all external requests...

Failure, pivots & shutdowns How do I tell my investors we need to pivot without them losing confidence in me? Frame the pivot as a decision you are already making with conviction, not a question...

Business models explained How do I make money from a free product or freemium model? Freemium only works if free users become a growth engine and a clear slice of them hit...

Polls

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Sales & Marketing What do you use for forms and surveys?

Google Forms 8 votes · 62%

Microsoft Forms 2 votes · 15%

Typeform 1 vote · 8%

Others 1 vote · 8%

Youform 1 vote · 8%

Tally Forms 0 votes · 0%

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AI Which tool do you vibe code with most?

+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 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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Product & Engineering Which no-code builder do you ship with?

Framer 3 votes · 43%

Webflow 1 vote · 14%

Wix 1 vote · 14%

WordPress 1 vote · 14%

Shopify 1 vote · 14%

Squarespace 0 votes · 0%

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AI Which AI coding tool do you build with?

Claude Code 3 votes · 43%

Cursor 1 vote · 14%

OpenAI Codex 1 vote · 14%

Replit 1 vote · 14%

Lovable 1 vote · 14%

GitHub Copilot 0 votes · 0%

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Sales & Marketing What do you publish your newsletter with?

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?

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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People & Hiring How do you run payroll and HR?

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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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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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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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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Harry Tannenbaum (Mill) - Setting the Goal at Delight [Entire Talk] Stanford eCorner

Why Most People Stay Average? | Ft. Nir Eyal Think School

Where to Find Influencers and Companies Who Will Send You Qualified Customers Mixergy

Can antimatter be used as rocket fuel? | Don Lincoln and Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast

How to Build Your Own AI VP of Marketing Step-by-Step SaaStr

Dan John Says: Do 25 Goblet Squats a Day The Pat Flynn Show

I BATTLED Peter Schiff Over Gold Vs. Bitcoin On National TV The Pomp Podcast

Satya Nadella on AI: @NoPriorsPodcast x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build 2026 Latent Space

Ryan Nece (Next Legacy Partners) - Learning from Achievement and Adversity [Entire Talk] Stanford eCorner

Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen Latent Space

Books

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slide:ology Nancy Duarte

Rework Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Secrets of Sand Hill Road Scott Kupor

Nawabs, Nudes, Noodles Ambi Parameswaran

Negotiation Genius Deepak Malhotra and Max Bazerman

The Psychology of Selling Brian Tracy

Platform Scale Sangeet Paul Choudary

Mindset Carol S. Dweck

Eat Your Greens Wiemer Snijders (editor)

eBoys Randall E. Stross

Watchlist

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Documentary American Factory Rich on operations, culture clash and the realities of manufacturing at scale.

Docuseries The Cars That Built America Good on manufacturing, competition and scaling a hard product.

Film Soorarai Pottru One of the best Indian founder films, about taking on incumbents to build an affordable...

TV Series Succession A family business is still a family.

Film Dumb Money A timely look at markets, community and the power of distribution online.

Documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened A case study in overpromising, marketing hype and operational collapse.

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

Docuseries Bad Boy Billionaires: India Cautionary founder cases on ambition, leverage, fraud and what happens when growth...

Film Air A superb study of negotiation, conviction and a category defining bet.

TV Series Scam 2003: The Telgi Story Another study of scaling an operation, in this case a criminal one, and how systems are...

AI tools

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Research & search Elicit

Coding Claude Code 3 founders use it

Video & audio ElevenLabs 1 founder use it

Data & analytics Hex

Automation & agents Gumloop

Research & search Perplexity

Writing & content Writesonic

Research & search Consensus

Coding Lovable 1 founder use it

Video & audio Synthesia

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