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Friends of eChai Social in Surat

eChai Ventures will be hosting the small curated gathering of founder friends from the community to connect, share and collaborate.

eChai Ventures will be hosting the small curated gathering of founder friends from the community to connect, share and collaborate.

Friday, 30 June 2023
6:30–8:30 PM IST
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Starting Up

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Founder-led sales How do I follow up after a good sales call without being annoying or looking desperate? Most deals die in the follow-up gap, not on the call, so treat follow-up as a service...
Content & SEO foundations How do I measure if my content is actually working, beyond just watching pageviews? Pageviews flatter you and tell you nothing. Track which pieces bring people who sign...
Talking to customers & user research How do I run customer discovery as an Indian founder building for Indian users? The frameworks are global but the field is local: Indian buyers often say 'yes, nice'...
Content & SEO foundations How do I get started with content marketing without a big team? Write the handful of articles that answer the exact questions your best customers ask...
No-code & low-code building My Bubble app slows to a crawl once I have a few thousand records. How do I fix performance without rebuilding in code? Most Bubble slowness is not the platform, it is unindexed searches, do-a-search-for...
Website & landing page What should actually go on my startup's landing page? Above the fold: a clear headline saying what you do, a subheadline saying how, a visual...
Talking to customers & user research What questions should I actually ask in a customer interview? Ask about the past and the concrete, not the future and the hypothetical. 'Walk me...
Hiring your first employees What paperwork and compliance do I need in place before my first employee's start date in India? Get the basics locked before day one: a signed offer letter and employment agreement,...
Making the leap As a woman founder, how do I navigate family, marriage, and safety pressures specific to making this leap in India? Name the real constraints instead of pretending they do not exist: family expectations...
Selling to government What is an EMD and a performance bank guarantee, and how much cash will they lock up before I earn a rupee? Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) is the deposit you post just to be allowed to bid, and a...

Polls

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Money & Legal Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?
Ojas Gandhi Jay Dobariya Ahesan Ali Hirva Bhatt Akshay Solanki Kishan Parekh Harsha Bhurani Ayyan Karmakar +26
ICICI Bank 14 votes · 36%
HDFC Bank 10 votes · 26%
Kotak Mahindra Bank 9 votes · 23%
IDFC First Bank 2 votes · 5%
State Bank of India 1 vote · 3%
Yes Bank 1 vote · 3%
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Operations Where do you get your team's health insurance?
Sharib Sultan Amish Trivedi Nadeem Jafri Kush Prajapati
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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Essentials Which email service runs your work inbox?
Hirva Bhatt Aishwarya N Akshay Solanki Jatin Chaudhary Harry Rajput Rahul Sharma Chaitanya Badave Ayyan Karmakar +19
Google Workspace 20 votes · 61%
Microsoft 365 (Outlook) 6 votes · 18%
Zoho Mail 6 votes · 18%
Superhuman 1 vote · 3%
Titan 0 votes · 0%
Neo 0 votes · 0%
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AI Which tool do you vibe code with most?
Kush Prajapati Aishwarya N Siddhant Trivedi Manan Maheshwari Satish Kumar Pabbathi Ansh Varma Kishan Parekh Haripriya Epuri +10
Claude Code 16 votes · 64%
Cursor 3 votes · 12%
Lovable 3 votes · 12%
v0 1 vote · 4%
Windsurf 1 vote · 4%
Rocket 1 vote · 4%
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Product & Engineering What is your website built on?
Harsh Luhar Anuj Dalal Pragnesh Shah Nandan Shukla Ritwik Joshi
A custom build 2 votes · 33%
HTML 2 votes · 33%
WordPress 1 vote · 17%
Shopify 1 vote · 17%
Wix 0 votes · 0%
Squarespace 0 votes · 0%
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Operations Where does your team work from?
Ferry Lin Aishwarya N Tushar Prajapati Rahul Sharma Pragnesh Shah Anil Motwani Ritwik Joshi Rushabh Shah +1
Our own office 5 votes · 50%
Work from home 4 votes · 40%
DevX 1 vote · 10%
WeWork 0 votes · 0%
Awfis 0 votes · 0%
91springboard 0 votes · 0%
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Product & Engineering Which no-code builder do you ship with?
Satish Kumar Pabbathi Haripriya Epuri Manan Maheshwari Viraj Rajani
Framer 3 votes · 43%
Webflow 1 vote · 14%
Wix 1 vote · 14%
WordPress 1 vote · 14%
Shopify 1 vote · 14%
Squarespace 0 votes · 0%
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Sales & Marketing What do you publish your newsletter with?
Brijesh Patel Harry Rajput Naitik Panchal Nandan Shukla Ritwik Joshi Viraj Rajani Rushabh Shah
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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People & Hiring How do you run payroll and HR?
Sharib Sultan Amish Trivedi Manan Maheshwari
Keka 2 votes · 67%
RazorpayX Payroll 1 vote · 33%
GreytHR 0 votes · 0%
Zoho Payroll 0 votes · 0%
Kredily 0 votes · 0%
Darwinbox 0 votes · 0%
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AI Which AI assistant do you reach for first?
Aryan Panchal Jatin Chaudhary Kush Prajapati Rushabh Shah
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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Asks

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Operations & scaling I am looking for an Operations leader for the next phase at TAFCO. Reach out if you feel you are someone... Ayyan Karmakar
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

Podcasts

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Anti-matter & nuclear weapons: Why technology is always a double-edge sword | Don Lincoln Anti-matter & nuclear weapons: Why technology is always a double-edge sword | Don Lincoln Lex Fridman Podcast
Will FY27 Bring Better Returns? What Q4 Results Reveal! Will FY27 Bring Better Returns? What Q4 Results Reveal! ET Money
Is Venture Capital Built to Break Founders - Amrit Chandan @ Lorefully Is Venture Capital Built to Break Founders - Amrit Chandan @ Lorefully Founder Thesis
Essentials: Psychedelics & Neurostimulation for Brain Rewiring | Dr. Nolan Williams Essentials: Psychedelics & Neurostimulation for Brain Rewiring | Dr. Nolan Williams Huberman Lab
AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner BG2 Pod
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley The Knowledge Project
Michael Dell – Invest America Act Becomes Law, AI Talent Wars, Compute Demand, Market Update | BG2 Michael Dell – Invest America Act Becomes Law, AI Talent Wars, Compute Demand, Market Update | BG2 BG2 Pod
Most AI Companies Won’t Survive (Tech Investor Explains) Most AI Companies Won’t Survive (Tech Investor Explains) The Tim Ferriss Show
Essentials: Sleep Toolkit for Optimizing Sleep & Sleep-Wake Timing Essentials: Sleep Toolkit for Optimizing Sleep & Sleep-Wake Timing Huberman Lab
Getting Clients Is Easy Once You Master This! Getting Clients Is Easy Once You Master This! The Futur

Books

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Badass: Making Users Awesome Badass: Making Users Awesome Kathy Sierra
The Richest Man in Babylon The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason
Mittal Agravat
Ogilvy on Advertising Ogilvy on Advertising David Ogilvy
The Infinite Game The Infinite Game Simon Sinek
Words That Work Words That Work Frank Luntz
Wired for Story Wired for Story Lisa Cron
Zag Zag Marty Neumeier
The Innovator's Hypothesis Michael Schrage
Scientific Advertising Scientific Advertising Claude C. Hopkins
Principles: Life and Work Principles: Life and Work Ray Dalio
Viraj Rajani Amish Trivedi

Watchlist

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Documentary Generation Startup An honest look at the daily grind of early founders.
TV Series The Morning Show Strong on crisis management, leadership and power inside a media business.
Miniseries Inventing Anna A cautionary study of fundraising on image, social proof and the appetite of investors.
Film Flash of Genius A story of inventors, intellectual property and standing your ground.
Documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room A definitive case on culture, incentives and accounting that hides the truth.
Film The Social Network The most influential founder film for a generation on cofounders, equity and speed.
Rahul Sharma Dhruv Dattani Jaymin Bhavsar Dr Amit Gupta Kunjan Atara +3
Documentary Fyre Fraud A complementary view of the same failure focused on the founder.
Film The Big Bull An Indian markets story on ambition, leverage and the limits of hype.
Dhruv Dattani
Reality Shark Tank India The most influential mainstream show for Indian founders on pitching, valuation and...
Rahul Sharma Jatin Chaudhary Kunjan Atara Yash Shah Hirva Bhatt
Docuseries Explained A quick way to understand the systems and markets founders operate within.

AI tools

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Coding Claude Code 3 founders use it
Anil Motwani Amish Trivedi Jatin Chaudhary
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Coding GitHub Copilot Share how you use it →
Research & search Elicit Share how you use it →
Coding Cline Share how you use it →
Meetings & notes Fireflies.ai 1 founder use it
Vishal Tiwari
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Writing & content Copy.ai Share how you use it →
Video & audio Synthesia Share how you use it →
Assistants Claude 8 founders use it
Yash Shah Rushabh Shah Vishal Tiwari Anil Motwani Dhruv Dattani +3
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Video & audio Descript Share how you use it →
Writing & content Grammarly Share how you use it →

eChai Partner Brands

The companies that back the eChai network as growth partners. See all 28 →

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Past events
Getting to your first 100 paying customers
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eChai's Startup Open House in Hyderabad
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eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru
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FailCode Bengaluru: Failure lessons from startups and operators
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Bengaluru Startup Meetup
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Scaling Your Startup : Surat edition
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Marketing Strategies for Startup Meetup Pune
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Women Founders x AI : Ahmedabad edition
Jul 2026 · Ahmedabad
DeepTech Startup Meetup Pune
Jul 2026 · Pune
Surat Startup Meetup
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Mumbai Startup Meetup
Jul 2026 · Mumbai
Delhi-NCR Startup Meetup
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AI x Marketing : Ahmedabad edition
Jul 2026 · Ahmedabad
Ideation and early struggles of a startup founder : Hyderabad edition
Jul 2026 · Hyderabad
AI Cafe | Ahmedabad edition
Jul 2026 · Ahmedabad
Product Growth Playbook : Ahmedabad edition
Jul 2026 · Ahmedabad
eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru
Jun 2026 · Bengaluru
eChai's Startup Open House in Hyderabad
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Bengaluru Startup Meetup
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eChai Startup Demo Day in Hyderabad with CoKarma
Jun 2026 · Hyderabad
FailCode Ahmedabad: Failure lessons from startups and operators
Jun 2026 · Ahmedabad
eChai Startup Demo Day in Bengaluru
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eChai Startup Demo Day in Surat
Jun 2026 · Surat
eChai Startup Demo Day in Pune
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FailCode Surat: Failure lessons from startups and operators
Jun 2026 · Surat
Women Founders x AI : Ahmedabad edition
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eChai Startup Demo Day in Delhi-NCR
Jun 2026 · Delhi-NCR
eChai Startup Demo Day in Mumbai
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FailCode Pune: Failure lessons from startups and operators
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AI Cafe : Ahmedabad edition
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