Chandigarh

eChai Startup Demo Day in Chandigarh

Name: eChai Startup Demo Day in Chandigarh
Start: 2023-05-26T15:00:00+05:30
End: 2023-05-26T17:30:00+05:30
Location: Innovation Mission Punjab, 2nd Floor, Kissan Vikas Chamber, opposite World Trade Centre, Gmada Aerocity, Chandigarh, Punjab 140306

eChai Ventures, Innovation Mission Chandigarh and SpaceJam Coworking are hosting the May edition of eChai Startup Demo Day in Tricity area on 26th May, Friday from 3 pm to 5.30 pm.

Friday, 26 May 2023

3:00–5:30 PM IST

Innovation Mission Punjab, 2nd Floor, Kissan Vikas Chamber, opposite World Trade Centre, Gmada Aerocity, Chandigarh, Punjab 140306

Chandigarh

Hosts & speakers 1

Bhavish Sood Speaker

General Partner, Modulor Capital

Starting Up

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Grants & non-dilutive funding Do I need a registered company, GST, and a separate bank account before I can receive grant money? For most real grants, yes, and you should sort this before you apply, not after you're...

Culture, remote & operations How do I make decisions fast without either dictating everything or drowning in consensus? Name a single owner for every decision and make the default 'disagree and commit'. Most...

Founder-led sales How do I sell confidently when I am the founder and also the youngest or least experienced person in the room? Buyers do not need you to be the most senior person, they need to trust that you...

Social media & personal brand How are Indian founders using social to build distribution and community? Indian growth operators are building real audiences on LinkedIn, X, and podcasts, then...

Investor updates & relations When should I actually ask my investors for warm intros, and how do I make it easy for them to say yes? Ask in every update, but make it specific enough that a distracted investor can forward...

Paid acquisition basics What are the classic first-campaign mistakes that quietly waste my whole test budget? The usual money-burners: killing ads before they have enough data, changing three...

Naming your startup & domains Should I register a company, buy the domain, or lock the trademark first? Practically, grab the domain and the key social handles the moment you've shortlisted a...

Making the leap How do I make the leap from a well-paid MNC or FAANG job when the salary itself is the trap? The golden-handcuffs problem is real: the higher your package, the more your lifestyle...

Selling to enterprises (B2B) How do I support and keep an enterprise customer alive after the sale when I'm still a tiny team? Onboarding is where enterprise revenue is actually won: a customer who doesn't reach...

Selling to government Do I need to manufacture in India or hit local-content rules to sell hardware or software to the government? Often yes, and it's frequently a hard gate, not a nice-to-have. The Make in India /...

Polls

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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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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 use for forms and surveys?

Google Forms 9 votes · 64%

Microsoft Forms 2 votes · 14%

Typeform 1 vote · 7%

Others 1 vote · 7%

Youform 1 vote · 7%

Tally Forms 0 votes · 0%

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Operations Where does your team work from?

Our own office 4 votes · 44%

Work from home 4 votes · 44%

DevX 1 vote · 11%

WeWork 0 votes · 0%

Awfis 0 votes · 0%

91springboard 0 votes · 0%

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Sales & Marketing Which CRM do you use?

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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AI Which AI agents are running in your stack right now?

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Claude Code 19 votes · 31%

Claude Cowork 9 votes · 15%

Cursor 7 votes · 11%

Gemini Spark (Google) 5 votes · 8%

OpenAI Codex 4 votes · 7%

OpenCode 3 votes · 5%

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AI Which AI assistant do you reach for first?

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 Which internet provider keeps your team online?

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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Operations Which courier partner ships your orders?

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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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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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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Why Companies Are Dumping OpenAI & Anthropic The Information

Shinkei is Changing How Fish Are Caught, Processed and Brought to Your Plate | StrictlyVC LA 2026 TechCrunch Equity

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

The search for the "God Particle" - physicist explains discovery of the Higgs bosons | Don Lincoln Lex Fridman Podcast

K2 Space Raises $250M Series C to Build the Largest Satellites in Orbit The Logan Bartlett Show

Why is Bhavish Aggarwal's Krutrim AI failing? Backstage with Millionaires

Why India Is THE Leading Emerging Market for Public Investing | Kevin on The Desi VC The Desi VC

Do I Need a “Brain Gym”? Deep Questions

Rethinking Authenticity and What to Do Instead with Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic 8|5 Radical Candor

Anti-matter & nuclear weapons: Why technology is always a double-edge sword | Don Lincoln Lex Fridman Podcast

Books

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Storynomics Robert McKee and Thomas Gerace

The Four Steps to the Epiphany Steve Blank

Epic Content Marketing Joe Pulizzi

Blitzscaling Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People Susan Weinschenk

Setting the Table Danny Meyer

Good Strategy Bad Strategy Richard P. Rumelt

The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital Andrew Romans

Matchmakers David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee

Nudge Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

Watchlist

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TV Series City of Dreams A succession and power story that rhymes with founder families and control of an...

Film Moneyball A favorite among founders on data, contrarian strategy and resource constraints.

Film The Social Network The most influential founder film for a generation on cofounders, equity and speed.

TV Series Bull A homegrown window into markets, brokers and financial ambition for an Indian audience.

Film Corporate An early Bollywood look at corporate strategy, rivalry and the ethics of winning.

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

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

TV Series Masaba Masaba A look at running a fashion label, building a personal brand and rebuilding a business...

Film Flash of Genius A story of inventors, intellectual property and standing your ground.

Film Band Baaja Baaraat A genuine Indian founder story on cofounders, cash flow and mixing work and feelings.

AI tools

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Design & images Ideogram

Research & search Consensus

Coding Replit

Coding Cursor

Design & images Flux

Design & images Recraft

Meetings & notes Fathom

Coding Windsurf

Automation & agents Zapier

Assistants DeepSeek

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