Bengaluru

eChai Startup Demo Day in Bangalore

Name: eChai Startup Demo Day in Bangalore
Start: 2022-10-14T17:00:00+05:30
End: 2022-10-14T19:30:00+05:30
Location: K Tech Innovation Hub, IAMAI Mobile10x, KEONICS – K-WINGS, Seminar Hall, 27th Main Rd, 1st Sector, HSR Layout (behind HSR Police Station), Bengaluru 560102.

eChai Ventures and IAMAI Mobile10X are hosting the October 2022 edition of eChai Startup Demo Day in Bangalore on 14th October, Friday from 5 pm to 7.30 pm.

Friday, 14 October 2022

5:00–7:30 PM IST

K Tech Innovation Hub, IAMAI Mobile10x, KEONICS – K-WINGS, Seminar Hall, 27th Main Rd, 1st Sector, HSR Layout (behind HSR Police Station), Bengaluru 560102.

Bengaluru

Hosts & speakers 3

Jatin Chaudhary Speaker

CEO · eChai Ventures

Mainak Sarkar Speaker

Co-Founder & CEO, Explorex

Shubham Jhuria Speaker

CFO & Partner, Aeravti Ventures

Starting Up

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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...

Competitive & market research How much time should a solo founder actually spend on competitive research before just building? As a rough starting point, cap the first pass at a few focused days: enough to know who...

Understanding the problem (JTBD) How many customer interviews do I need before I trust the job I've found is real? There's no magic number, but the honest signal is repetition: when your last three...

Founder-market fit I keep hearing 'why you' matters to investors. What are they actually looking for when they ask it? They are testing whether you have an unfair reason to win this specific race: rare...

Culture, remote & operations How do we preserve culture and values as we grow past the first team? Codify your values into concrete hiring, feedback, and promotion decisions, culture...

Selling to enterprises (B2B) How do I land my first enterprise customer when nobody has heard of us? You don't win the first logo with a brand, you win it with a relationship and a...

Getting your first 10 customers I'm building for Indian SMBs who use WhatsApp for everything. How do I get my first 10 without a fancy sales process? Meet them where they already are: for many Indian small businesses that is WhatsApp, a...

Content & SEO foundations How do I build content and an audience the Indian way, like the founders who do it well? India's sharpest founders build audiences by teaching in public, think Zerodha's...

Unit economics & modeling What is churn and how much churn is too much? Churn is the rate customers leave, and it silently caps your growth because you're...

Unit economics & modeling What is a good LTV to CAC ratio? The rule of thumb is LTV:CAC of at least 3:1, earn back roughly three times what it...

Polls

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People & Hiring Where do you hire your team from?

LinkedIn 1 vote · 20%

Wellfound 1 vote · 20%

Referrals 1 vote · 20%

A recruitment partner 1 vote · 20%

Internships converted to full-time 1 vote · 20%

Naukri 0 votes · 0%

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Essentials Where does your team chat all day?

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WhatsApp 18 votes · 41%

Microsoft Teams 11 votes · 25%

Google Chat 6 votes · 14%

Slack 4 votes · 9%

Zoho Cliq 2 votes · 5%

Aookly 1 vote · 2%

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Essentials Which tool do your video meetings run on?

Google Meet 9 votes · 53%

Microsoft Teams 5 votes · 29%

Zoom 3 votes · 18%

Webex 0 votes · 0%

Whereby 0 votes · 0%

Around 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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Operations Which internet provider keeps your team online?

Jio (JioFiber / Jio Business) 8 votes · 47%

Airtel (Xstream Fiber / Airtel Business) 7 votes · 41%

BSNL 2 votes · 12%

ACT Fibernet 0 votes · 0%

Tata Play Fiber 0 votes · 0%

Spectra 0 votes · 0%

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Operations What do you get documents signed with?

DocuSign 2 votes · 40%

Adobe Acrobat Sign 1 vote · 20%

PandaDoc 1 vote · 20%

Others 1 vote · 20%

Zoho Sign 0 votes · 0%

Dropbox Sign 0 votes · 0%

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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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Operations How does your team book business travel?

MakeMyTrip 2 votes · 40%

EaseMyTrip 1 vote · 20%

Ixigo 1 vote · 20%

Direct on airline and hotel sites 1 vote · 20%

Cleartrip 0 votes · 0%

Yatra 0 votes · 0%

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Money & Legal Who did you incorporate your company with?

LegalWiz.in 3 votes · 60%

A local CA 2 votes · 40%

Vakilsearch 0 votes · 0%

IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%

ClearTax 0 votes · 0%

Razorpay Rize 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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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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Our Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. but has too many guardrails SaaStr

Is Venture Capital Built to Break Founders - Amrit Chandan @ Lorefully Founder Thesis

This Quant Fund Broke the Power Law The Peel

Is string theory dead? | Don Lincoln and Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast

Why Companies Are Dumping OpenAI & Anthropic The Information

Inside Modal: NYC's “Monastery for Super Nerds” The Logan Bartlett Show

The Secret '$31 Billion Market' no one is paying attention to Backstage with Millionaires

Honest Opinion On Quick Commerce In India WTF is with Nikhil Kamath

What VCs Miss When Evaluating Lending Startups: Alok Mittal (Indifi) Founder Thesis

How This Fraudster Sold Fake Scottish Tea to the Rich Nudge

Books

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The Culture Code Daniel Coyle

Transformed Marty Cagan with Lea Hickman, Chris Jones, Christian Idiodi, and John Moore

Build Better Products Laura Klein

Too Big to Fail Andrew Ross Sorkin

Product Management in Practice Matt LeMay

The Innovator's Solution Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor

Good Strategy Bad Strategy Richard P. Rumelt

The Cold Start Problem Andrew Chen

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish Rashmi Bansal

Work Rules! Laszlo Bock

Watchlist

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

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

Docuseries The Food That Built America Strong on branding, distribution and category creation in consumer goods.

Documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley A factual companion to the Theranos story on belief, ethics and investors.

TV Series Farzi A dark entrepreneurship story about building an operation, scaling risk and getting in...

TV Series House of Lies A cynical but instructive look at consulting, selling advice and corporate dysfunction.

Docuseries Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. A reminder that operators can be manipulated and businesses can unravel fast.

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

TV Series Cubicles Honest on work culture, early career pressure and finding your feet inside an...

Film Tetris A surprisingly tense lesson on licensing, deal structure and global business.

AI tools

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Coding Lovable 1 founder use it

Automation & agents Zapier

Video & audio Pika

Design & images Canva Magic Studio

Assistants Gemini 3 founders use it

Writing & content Rytr

Design & images Recraft

Video & audio Runway

Design & images Stable Diffusion

Video & audio ElevenLabs 1 founder 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.

Growth Iris