Mumbai

Mumbai Startup Meetup

Name: Mumbai Startup Meetup
Start: 2023-06-10T11:00:00+05:30
End: 2023-06-10T13:00:00+05:30
Location: DevX, 7th Floor, A Wing, Dynasty Business Park, Nr. JB Nagar Metro Station (Chakala), Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri East, Mumbai 400065.

eChai Ventures and DevX Venture Fund will be hosting the in-person 'Mumbai Startup Meetup' with founders and startup folks on 10th June, Saturday from 11 am to 1 pm.

Saturday, 10 June 2023

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM IST

DevX, 7th Floor, A Wing, Dynasty Business Park, Nr. JB Nagar Metro Station (Chakala), Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri East, Mumbai 400065.

Mumbai

Hosts & speakers 3

Akshay Khirodwala Speaker

Founder, First Sight

Daryl D'Souza Speaker

Co-Founder, Recyclink

LoveKshitij Suryavanshi Speaker

Product Management Leader

Starting Up

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Talking to customers & user research How do I show a prototype to users without biasing their reaction? Hand it over, give them a goal, and shut up. Don't narrate or explain, watch where they...

Talking to customers & user research How do I run good discovery calls in India when the person keeps saying yes to be polite but never converts? Politeness bias is real, and in many Indian conversations a warm yes is social...

Grants & non-dilutive funding What is DPIIT / Startup India recognition, and what do I actually get from it? DPIIT recognition is a free certificate from the Department for Promotion of Industry...

Spotting trends & opportunities Where do I look to find emerging opportunities before they're obvious? Go where the problems are loudest and the solutions are ugliest: niche communities,...

Retention, referral & virality What's a fair referral incentive to offer in India without training users to game it or attracting freeloaders? Two-sided incentives (both referrer and friend get something) usually beat one-sided,...

Startup finance & accounting How do I handle money and invoicing when my customers are abroad but my company is registered in India? Cross-border revenue adds FEMA rules, foreign inward remittance certificates (FIRC),...

IP, licenses & regulatory I'm a doctor with a clinic idea, do I need regulatory licenses before I open? Yes, healthcare is one of the most regulated things you can start, and you can't ship...

Website & landing page How do I know if people are actually reading my landing page or bouncing in two seconds? Add a free analytics tool and a heatmap so you can see where people scroll, click, and...

Competitive & market research How do I research a market in India where reliable data and analyst reports basically don't exist? For most Indian early-stage markets the top-down report you want either doesn't exist...

Paid acquisition basics How do retargeting and cold prospecting budgets actually split when I'm just starting? Early on, most of your budget has to go to cold prospecting because you have almost no...

Polls

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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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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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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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Money & Legal How do you manage company spends and cards?

IDFC Business Card 1 vote · 100%

Volopay 0 votes · 0%

Happay 0 votes · 0%

EnKash 0 votes · 0%

Kodo 0 votes · 0%

Zaggle 0 votes · 0%

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Essentials Which tool do your video meetings run on?

Google Meet 9 votes · 53%

Microsoft Teams 5 votes · 29%

Zoom 3 votes · 18%

Webex 0 votes · 0%

Whereby 0 votes · 0%

Around 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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People & Hiring How do you run payroll and HR?

RazorpayX Payroll 1 vote · 50%

Keka 1 vote · 50%

GreytHR 0 votes · 0%

Zoho Payroll 0 votes · 0%

Kredily 0 votes · 0%

Darwinbox 0 votes · 0%

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Operations What do you get documents signed with?

DocuSign 2 votes · 40%

Adobe Acrobat Sign 1 vote · 20%

PandaDoc 1 vote · 20%

Others 1 vote · 20%

Zoho Sign 0 votes · 0%

Dropbox Sign 0 votes · 0%

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Money & Legal What do you send your invoices with?

Zoho Books 2 votes · 50%

Others 1 vote · 25%

Email 1 vote · 25%

Refrens 0 votes · 0%

Zoho Invoice 0 votes · 0%

Vyapar 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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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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Dark matter explained by physicist | Don Lincoln and Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast

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Empty space is not empty: The mind-blowing idea of virtual prticles | Don Lincoln and Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast

Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri Huberman Lab

Copy This Blueprint to Go From $0 to $100M/yr in E-com My First Million

When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs Latent Space

SaaS Growth Strategies That Actually Work: Pricing, Localization & Survival Startups for the Rest of Us

How Top 1% Marketers Are Shifting Their Strategy in Q3 2026 Marketing Against the Grain

I BATTLED Peter Schiff Over Gold Vs. Bitcoin On National TV The Pomp Podcast

Books

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Seductive Interaction Design Stephen P. Anderson

Masters of Scale Reid Hoffman with June Cohen and Deron Triff

Contagious Jonah Berger

Work Rules! Laszlo Bock

Setting the Table Danny Meyer

A Random Walk Down Wall Street Burton G. Malkiel

I Will Teach You to Be Rich Ramit Sethi

The Most Important Thing Howard Marks

Eat Your Greens Wiemer Snijders (editor)

Chaos Monkeys Antonio Garcia Martinez

Watchlist

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Film Swades A social entrepreneurship story about coming home and building something that lasts.

Docuseries Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates A study of how a founder mind approaches problems at scale.

Docuseries Explained A quick way to understand the systems and markets founders operate within.

Docuseries The Food That Built America Strong on branding, distribution and category creation in consumer goods.

TV Series Mythic Quest One of the most accurate comedies about product teams, releases and engineering culture.

TV Series Cubicles Honest on work culture, early career pressure and finding your feet inside an...

TV Series Succession A family business is still a family.

Docuseries Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. A reminder that operators can be manipulated and businesses can unravel fast.

TV Series Bombay Begums Strong on women in leadership, finance and the politics of climbing inside a company.

Film Wall Street A classic on greed, mentorship and the cost of shortcuts.

AI tools

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Assistants Microsoft Copilot 1 founder use it

Research & search Elicit

Design & images Adobe Firefly

Meetings & notes Otter.ai

Video & audio CapCut 1 founder use it

Writing & content Grammarly

Meetings & notes Read AI

Writing & content Writesonic

Automation & agents Gumloop

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