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Friends of eChai Startup Social

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This meetup is open for members of eChai Business Partner Program only.

You can reach out to Jatin Chaudhary, Co-Founder, eChai Ventures over WhatsApp to know more about eChai Business Partners Program at https://wa.me/918238968939

Wednesday, 6 March 2024
6:30-8:30 PM IST
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Starting Up

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Incubators, accelerators & competitions How do I tell a genuinely good incubator or accelerator from one that just takes equity and gives nothing? Judge the network, not the brochure. A real program gets you warm intros to investors...
Failure, pivots & shutdowns What can I learn from Indian startups that failed or shut down? The recurring killers in India are co-founder conflict, running out of runway, and...
No-code & low-code building Which no-code tool should I use to build my first product? Match the tool to the job: Bubble for a real full-stack web app or marketplace, Webflow...
Business models explained Should I sell to businesses (B2B) or consumers (B2C)? B2B usually means fewer customers paying more, longer sales cycles, and rational...
Pitch deck & storytelling What financial numbers actually belong on the deck versus the data room? The deck carries three to five numbers that prove momentum: current revenue or a...
Talking to customers & user research How do I tell the difference between a nice-to-have problem and one people will actually change their behavior to fix? A real problem shows up in what people already do about it: they've cobbled together a...
Incubators, accelerators & competitions Is the equity an accelerator takes worth it? The math is simple: give up 6-15% now if, and only if, the accelerator's money, network...
Unit economics & modeling How do I calculate CAC (customer acquisition cost) and LTV? CAC = total sales and marketing spend divided by new customers acquired in that period,...
Distribution & channel strategy Should I focus on one channel or spread across many? Focus. Early on, pick one channel that shows real traction and pour your energy into...

Polls

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Operations Which internet provider keeps your team online?
Akshay Solanki Aryan Panchal Harry Rajput Kishan Parekh Rahul Sharma Dhruv Dattani Anil Motwani Kunal Chaudhari +10
Jio (JioFiber / Jio Business) 9 votes · 47%
Airtel (Xstream Fiber / Airtel Business) 8 votes · 42%
BSNL 2 votes · 11%
ACT Fibernet 0 votes · 0%
Tata Play Fiber 0 votes · 0%
Spectra 0 votes · 0%
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Sales & Marketing What powers your customer support?
Akshay Solanki
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 agents are running in your stack right now?
Ahesan Ali Harsh Luhar Aryan Panchal Siddhant Trivedi Anuj Dalal Manan Maheshwari Anmol Parimoo Harry Rajput +18
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 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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AI Which AI image or video tool do you create with?
Shanu Shah Manan Maheshwari Satish Kumar Pabbathi Anmol Parimoo Harry Rajput Jatin Chaudhary Bhavesh Patel Ritwik Joshi +1
Google Veo 6 votes · 38%
DALL-E 3 votes · 19%
Midjourney 2 votes · 13%
Adobe Firefly 2 votes · 13%
Ideogram 1 vote · 6%
Leonardo AI 1 vote · 6%
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Sales & Marketing How do you track product and web analytics?
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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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Product & Engineering Which cloud or hosting is your product on?
Aryan Panchal Jaymin Bhavsar Anuj Dalal Amish Trivedi Harry Rajput Nandan Shukla Rushabh Shah
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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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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Money & Legal What do you use for accounting and bookkeeping?
Harsh Luhar Rushabh Shah
Zoho Books 1 vote · 50%
Tally 1 vote · 50%
Vyapar 0 votes · 0%
QuickBooks 0 votes · 0%
Refrens 0 votes · 0%
myBillBook 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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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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D2C 3.0 - How to build a successful brand in India in 2026: Indian Startups News 317 D2C 3.0 - How to build a successful brand in India in 2026: Indian Startups News 317 Backstage with Millionaires
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Marketing Management Marketing Management Philip Kotler
Storynomics Storynomics Robert McKee and Thomas Gerace
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Watchlist

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Film Ford v Ferrari Strong on engineering, teams and competing with a dominant rival.
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TV Series Mad Men Deep on brand, persuasion, agency building and reinvention of self and company.
Documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room A definitive case on culture, incentives and accounting that hides the truth.
Docuseries The Romantics A founder and family business story about building one of India's largest film studios.
Anthology Black Mirror Provokes hard questions about the products founders build and their second order effects.
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Documentary The Pixar Story A creative company story about culture, technology and patient bets.
Miniseries The Playlist Useful look at how a product wins through licensing, deals and stubborn product belief.
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Film Joy An inventor to entrepreneur story on patents, manufacturing and selling.
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AI tools

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Data & analytics Hex Share how you use it →
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