Ahmedabad

eChai Startup Demo Day with GVFL: Hardware Startups special

Name: eChai Startup Demo Day with GVFL: Hardware Startups special
Start: 2024-04-04T18:30:00+05:30
End: 2024-04-04T20:30:00+05:30
Location: GVFL, 1221/1222, 12th Floor, East Wing, Stratum @Venus Grounds, Nehrunagar, Ahmedabad – 380015, Gujarat.

<div>eChai Startup Demo Day 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 Startup Demo Day is a platform for promising startups from the community to present their ventures, get early feedback and engage with investors, enablers & the community.

Thursday, 4 April 2024

6:30–8:30 PM IST

GVFL, 1221/1222, 12th Floor, East Wing, Stratum @Venus Grounds, Nehrunagar, Ahmedabad – 380015, Gujarat.

Ahmedabad

Jatin, Aditya + 11 others went See who came

Hosts & speakers 6

Jatin Chaudhary Host

CEO · eChai Ventures

Aditya Dave Speaker

Founder, Cibos Techno Solutions

Kush Prajapati Speaker

Going 7

Co Founder · Digipple

Aashish Kharwade

Co-Founder · FastHire Manpower Solution

Ashutosh Raval

Founder & Cyber Security Professional ( Offensive Security) · Redhacks1 IT security pvt ltd

Founder · Yhonk Tech Pvt Ltd

Sumit Kasardekar

Founder · The Harsmit Ventures

Starting Up

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Founder-led sales How do I sell to enterprises and large companies as a tiny unknown startup they have never heard of? Big companies do not buy from unknown startups because of your logo, they buy because a...

Startup finance & accounting How much of my own savings is it actually sane to put into my startup before I raise or make revenue? There's no universal number, but a good rule is: never bet money you'd need for rent,...

Bootstrapping & profitability How do I reach profitability (or ramen profitability) as fast as possible? Ramen profitability means covering the founders' basic living costs, get there and...

Finding & shaping ideas How do I find a problem worth solving in an industry I have never worked in? Being an outsider is not fatal, but you have to close the knowledge gap fast and...

Competitive & market research As a non-technical founder, how do I research a market where I don't understand the technical products my competitors sell? You don't need to understand the internals to research well, you need to understand...

Founder-market fit My co-founder has the domain expertise and I don't. Do we split founder-market fit, or is only one of us 'the fit'? Founder-market fit lives at the team level, not the individual. A pairing where one...

Talking to customers & user research As a solo technical founder who hates sales calls, how do I do user research without it draining me every week? You don't have to become an extrovert, you have to make research a small, repeatable...

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:...

Spotting trends & opportunities How do I catch a rising trend early when I'm building outside the big startup hubs and not in the room where these conversations happen? You don't need to be in Bangalore's cafes to spot trends, and being closer to a real...

Bootstrapping & profitability How do I build a bootstrapped software business from a smaller Indian city, away from the big startup hubs? Being outside Bengaluru or Delhi is a cost advantage, not a handicap: lower burn means...

Polls

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Product & Engineering Which design tool does your team use?

Canva 7 votes · 50%

Figma 3 votes · 21%

Framer 1 vote · 7%

Adobe Photoshop 1 vote · 7%

Adobe Illustrator 1 vote · 7%

Webflow 1 vote · 7%

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Sales & Marketing What do you publish your newsletter with?

Mailchimp 3 votes · 30%

Substack 3 votes · 30%

Zoho Campaigns 3 votes · 30%

Brevo 1 vote · 10%

Beehiiv 0 votes · 0%

Kit (ConvertKit) 0 votes · 0%

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AI Which AI image or video tool do you create with?

Google Veo 5 votes · 38%

DALL-E 2 votes · 15%

Adobe Firefly 2 votes · 15%

Midjourney 1 vote · 8%

Ideogram 1 vote · 8%

Leonardo AI 1 vote · 8%

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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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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 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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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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Product & Engineering Which cloud or hosting is your product on?

AWS 4 votes · 33%

Google Cloud 2 votes · 17%

Others 2 votes · 17%

Cloudflare 1 vote · 8%

Railway 1 vote · 8%

Supabase 1 vote · 8%

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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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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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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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Why are Indian Billionaires not investing in R&D? - Indian Startups News 316 Backstage with Millionaires

I Left 8M Subs to Relearn YouTube The Colin and Samir Show

⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai Latent Space

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

Speed of light explained: Was Einstein's theory correct? | Don Lincoln and Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast

Inside The Industry That Powers Every Business In America | Deep Dives with a16z a16z

Kit Rodgers, Ben Jun, and Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research, Inc.) [Entire Talk] Stanford eCorner

A Brilliant Blend of Ballet, Hip-Hop and African Dance | Ghetto Classics Dance | TED Startup Grind

The Truth About SpaceX Stock Bankless

I Did OnePlus. Still, Nobody Wanted To Work For Us... WTF is with Nikhil Kamath

Books

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Liar's Poker Michael Lewis

Venture Deals Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

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

Brand Leadership David A. Aaker with Erich Joachimsthaler

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership John C. Maxwell

The Lean Startup Eric Ries

Maverick Ricardo Semler

Sales Pitch April Dunford

The Dhandho Investor Mohnish Pabrai

The Leadership Challenge James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Watchlist

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Film Margin Call A tight study of risk, decision making under pressure and leadership.

TV Series The Office Often referenced on management, culture and the human side of running a workplace.

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

Miniseries The Playlist Useful look at how a product wins through licensing, deals and stubborn product belief.

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

Miniseries WeCrashed A vivid study of hype, charismatic founders, blitzscaling and the limits of a growth at...

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

TV Series Start-Up A rare drama built entirely around accelerators, demo days, investors and the cost of...

TV Series Made in Heaven A genuine founder story about running a services business, managing clients and holding...

TV Series Aarya An Indian take on running a business empire under pressure, with hard operational and...

AI tools

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Video & audio HeyGen

Assistants Claude 8 founders use it

Meetings & notes tl;dv

Automation & agents Make

Assistants Poe

Video & audio Kling

Coding v0

Automation & agents Gumloop

Design & images Midjourney

Meetings & notes Granola

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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