Delhi-NCR

eChai Startup Demo Day in Gurugram

Name: eChai Startup Demo Day in Gurugram
Start: 2023-12-23T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2023-12-23T20:00:00+05:30
Location: Nasscom CoE Gurugram, First Floor, Hartron Multi Skill Development Centre, Plot No-1, Udyog Vihar Phase-I, near Border Foot over bridge, Old Delhi-Gurgaon Rd, Dundahera, Gurugram, Haryana 122016, India.

<div>eChai Demo Days are held every month in Dehi-NCR.<br><br></div><div>It is a platform for promising startups from the community to present their ventures, get early feedback and engage with investors, enablers & the community.</div>

eChai Demo Days are held every month in Dehi-NCR.
It is a platform for promising startups from the community to present their ventures, get early feedback and engage with investors, enablers & the community.

Saturday, 23 December 2023

6:00–8:00 PM IST

Nasscom CoE Gurugram, First Floor, Hartron Multi Skill Development Centre, Plot No-1, Udyog Vihar Phase-I, near Border Foot over bridge, Old Delhi-Gurgaon Rd, Dundahera, Gurugram, Haryana 122016, India.

Delhi-NCR

Hosts & speakers 4

Megha Verma Host

Founder · Growth Iris

Dhruv Nath Speaker

Director, Lead Angels Network Co-Author, Funding Your Startup

Mukul Chhabra Speaker

Founder, ScrapUncle

Sudhanshu Mittal Speaker

Head & Director Technical Solutions - Gurugram Nasscom

Starting Up

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Website & landing page How do I make my site look trustworthy and professional on a tiny budget? Trust comes from clarity and proof, not gradients: consistent fonts, real logos of...

Selling to enterprises (B2B) How do I negotiate multi-year contracts, discounts, and renewal terms without training customers to always squeeze me? Never give a discount for free: trade it for something you want, like a longer term, an...

Founder mental health & burnout How do I protect my mental health when a cofounder conflict is eating me alive? Cofounder conflict wrecks founders more than product failure does, because it is a...

Failure, pivots & shutdowns How do I let go of my team fairly when the money is about to run out? Decide early enough that you can still pay full-and-final settlement and give real...

Cold outreach & email What are the most common cold email mistakes that make people delete on sight? The killers are predictable: a wall of text, making it about you instead of them, a...

Co-founder agreements & equity I am a first-time founder outside the big metros and my co-founder is in Bengaluru. Does where we are based change how we split equity or set up the company? Location does not change the split: contribution, risk, and role do. What it does...

Unit economics & modeling My business has a big upfront cost per customer that pays back over months. How do I model CAC payback period so I don't run out of cash? CAC payback is how many months of contribution margin it takes to earn back what you...

Selling to government I'm a DPIIT-recognised startup, what procurement relaxations do I actually get? DPIIT-recognised startups are exempted from the three biggest barriers: prior turnover,...

Selling to enterprises (B2B) Can an Indian startup sell to global enterprises, and what's different about doing it from India? Yes, Indian SaaS companies from Zoho to Freshworks have sold to global enterprises...

Social media & personal brand Why should I build a personal brand as a founder? An audience you build before you need it is the cheapest distribution you'll ever have:...

Polls

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

Google Forms 10 votes · 63%

Microsoft Forms 2 votes · 13%

Typeform 1 vote · 6%

Zoho Forms 1 vote · 6%

Others 1 vote · 6%

Youform 1 vote · 6%

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Money & Legal Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?

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ICICI Bank 14 votes · 37%

HDFC Bank 9 votes · 24%

Kotak Mahindra Bank 9 votes · 24%

IDFC First Bank 2 votes · 5%

State Bank of India 1 vote · 3%

Yes Bank 1 vote · 3%

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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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Operations How do people book time with you?

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Google Calendar appointments 9 votes · 32%

Calendly 7 votes · 25%

Cal.com 4 votes · 14%

Phone Call or Whatsapp 4 votes · 14%

Microsoft Bookings 2 votes · 7%

Zoho Bookings 1 vote · 4%

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

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Claude Code 19 votes · 30%

Claude Cowork 9 votes · 14%

Cursor 8 votes · 13%

Gemini Spark (Google) 6 votes · 9%

OpenAI Codex 4 votes · 6%

OpenCode 3 votes · 5%

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Operations What do you get documents signed with?

DocuSign 3 votes · 50%

Adobe Acrobat Sign 1 vote · 17%

PandaDoc 1 vote · 17%

Others 1 vote · 17%

Zoho Sign 0 votes · 0%

Dropbox Sign 0 votes · 0%

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Sales & Marketing How do you track product and web analytics?

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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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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Sales & Marketing What runs your marketing automation?

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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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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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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The First App I Ever Built Makes $25K/Month Starter Story

Cathy Lanier: My Story of Workplace Harassment As a Police Officer The Tim Ferriss Show

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

How a Sense of Belonging Turned this company into a $800 Million Brand Behind the Brand

Instagram failed until it made THIS simple change Nudge

Master Self Control & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Kentaro Fujita Huberman Lab

I Built a $250M Fashion Brand From My Car | 12th Tribe Foundr

Building Enduring Companies Outside Silicon Valley | Santiago Suárez of Addi a16z

2016 US Election Inspired a Billion Dollar Startup | Abhishek Agrawal on The Desi VC The Desi VC

General Atlantic Co-President: How I’d Invest $100 Billion Starting From Scratch WTF is with Nikhil Kamath

Books

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How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie

Empowered Marty Cagan with Chris Jones

Liar's Poker Michael Lewis

The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mindset Carol S. Dweck

Grit Angela Duckworth

Designing Products People Love Scott Hurff

Too Big to Fail Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Long and the Short of It Les Binet and Peter Field

The Network Imperative Barry Libert, Megan Beck, and Jerry Wind

Watchlist

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

TV Series Mr. Robot A look at the technical and ethical underbelly of tech and the systems founders build on.

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

TV Series Aspirants Less about startups and more about the grind, sacrifice and long odds that any founder...

Documentary Fyre Fraud A complementary view of the same failure focused on the founder.

Miniseries Inventing Anna A cautionary study of fundraising on image, social proof and the appetite of investors.

Film Jobs An accessible founder biopic on the early Apple journey.

Film Mitron A light startup story about finding purpose by building something of your own.

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

Miniseries The Dropout Essential viewing on the line between bold vision and fraud, and how investors and...

AI tools

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Coding Cursor

Coding Cline

Assistants DeepSeek

Video & audio Synthesia

Meetings & notes Fireflies.ai 1 founder use it

Video & audio Veo

Assistants Qwen

Coding Zed

Video & audio Suno

Design & images Ideogram

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