Pune

Failcode Pune: Failure Lessons from Startups and Operators

Name: Failcode Pune: Failure Lessons from Startups and Operators
Start: 2025-02-01T16:00:00+05:30
End: 2025-02-01T18:00:00+05:30
Location: Ideas to Impacts Baner, 1st Floor, Lane 3, Near Vijay Sales, Pallod Farms, Baner, Pune, Maharashtra 411045.

<div>A candid conversation about challenges, pivots, and recoveries in the startup journey.<br><br>Learn how founders and operators navigated setbacks, turned failures into opportunities, and built resilience in their ventures. <br><br>This event is for those seeking real stories, actionable insights, and strategies to embrace failure as a stepping stone to success.</div>

A candid conversation about challenges, pivots, and recoveries in the startup journey.

Learn how founders and operators navigated setbacks, turned failures into opportunities, and built resilience in their ventures.

This event is for those seeking real stories, actionable insights, and strategies to embrace failure as a stepping stone to success.

Saturday, 1 February 2025

4:00–6:00 PM IST

Ideas to Impacts Baner, 1st Floor, Lane 3, Near Vijay Sales, Pallod Farms, Baner, Pune, Maharashtra 411045.

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Starting Up

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Building your MVP What actually counts as an MVP, and what's the smallest one I can get away with? An MVP is the least you can build (or fake) to test your single riskiest assumption,...

Finding & working with developers How do I hire good engineers in India when everyone's competing for the same talent? Lean hard on your network, alumni, ex-colleagues, referrals, because job portals alone...

Community-led growth Should I build a community around my company brand or around a broader topic bigger than my product? A topic bigger than your product almost always grows faster, because people join...

Bootstrapping & profitability What's the smallest team I can grow a bootstrapped startup with, and when does staying tiny start costing me more than hiring? Staying small is a genuine advantage until it isn't: a lean team keeps you profitable...

Bootstrapping & profitability How do I fund a bootstrapped startup with a services or consulting arm without the services work eating the product forever? Using services to fund product is a legitimate and very Indian way to bootstrap, but...

Founder-market fit What are the warning signs that I have weak founder-market fit and I'm forcing it? A few honest tells: you dread customer conversations, you can't explain the problem...

Community-led growth When is a paid community worth it versus keeping it free, for a founder just starting out? Charge only when the community already delivers value people would miss if it vanished,...

Shipping, iterating & roadmap How do I stop myself from adding features nobody asked for just because I enjoy building? Building is a genuine addiction for technical founders, and it feels like progress...

Business models explained How do I decide whether to add a services layer to my product business, and will investors hate it? Services can be smart early: they fund you, teach you what customers really need, and...

Failure, pivots & shutdowns How do I emotionally recover after my startup fails? Grieve it properly, a failed startup is a real loss, and pretending you're fine just...

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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Product & Engineering Where do you manage projects and tasks?

Jira 2 votes · 33%

Others 2 votes · 33%

Asana 1 vote · 17%

ClickUp 1 vote · 17%

Notion 0 votes · 0%

Linear 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 How do people book time with you?

Google Calendar appointments 8 votes · 32%

Calendly 7 votes · 28%

Cal.com 4 votes · 16%

Microsoft Bookings 2 votes · 8%

Phone Call or Whatsapp 2 votes · 8%

Zoho Bookings 1 vote · 4%

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People & Hiring Which accelerator or incubator were you part of?

IIMA Ventures 3 votes · 43%

A state or govt incubator 3 votes · 43%

i-Hub 1 vote · 14%

Y Combinator 0 votes · 0%

Techstars 0 votes · 0%

Antler 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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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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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 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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AI Which tool do you vibe code with most?

Claude Code 15 votes · 63%

Cursor 3 votes · 13%

Lovable 3 votes · 13%

v0 1 vote · 4%

Windsurf 1 vote · 4%

Rocket 1 vote · 4%

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

SaaS Pricing Strategy: 5 Stupid Mistakes Killing Your Revenue (And How To Fix Them) Startups for the Rest of Us

Fixing Colt Kirwan's YouTube Channel in 16 Minutes The Colin and Samir Show

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

Tracy Chou (Block Party) - Founding a Mission-Driven Startup [Entire Talk] Stanford eCorner

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

Inside the AI Sprint | Tomasz Tunguz, Theory Ventures The Peel

The Most Incredible Transformation I’ve Ever Seen — Jerzy Gregorek on Cerebral Palsy and Coaching The Tim Ferriss Show

Pyramid of Work and The Future of Enterprise Automation | The a16z Show a16z

I Turned This Spreadsheet Into a $30K/Month Micro-SaaS Starter Story

Books

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Inspired Marty Cagan

Reinventing Organizations Frederic Laloux

The Z Factor Subhash Chandra with Pranjal Sharma

Negotiation Genius Deepak Malhotra and Max Bazerman

Tribal Leadership Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright

The Coaching Habit Michael Bungay Stanier

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, and Michael LeBoeuf

Ogilvy on Advertising David Ogilvy

Remote: Office Not Required Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

The Essays of Warren Buffett Warren E. Buffett, selected and arranged by Lawrence A. Cunningham

Watchlist

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Film Sui Dhaaga A grassroots entrepreneurship story about self reliance, craft and building a brand.

TV Series Billions A masterclass in power, negotiation, performance and high stakes decision making.

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

TV Series Suits Useful on closing deals, managing clients and building a firm and a brand.

TV Series Upload Satirizes subscription products, tiered pricing and tech company power.

Film Glengarry Glen Ross Brutal and quotable on sales pressure, incentives and survival.

Documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room A definitive case on culture, incentives and accounting that hides the truth.

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

Film Pelli Choopulu A warm and realistic story of young founders building a food business from nothing.

TV Series Better Call Saul Detailed on building a practice from scratch, hustle, branding and reinvention.

AI tools

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Research & search NotebookLM 1 founder use it

Meetings & notes Fathom

Writing & content Copy.ai

Meetings & notes Read AI

Assistants Grok 1 founder use it

Design & images DALL·E

Writing & content Notion AI

Assistants Qwen

Design & images Krea

Assistants Le Chat

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