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Opportunities and Challenges in Hyperlocal Sector

Name: Opportunities and Challenges in Hyperlocal Sector
Start: 2016-09-10T14:30:00+05:30
End: 2016-09-10T17:30:00+05:30
Location: Ahmedabad Management AssociationIIM Road

Happened

Saturday, 10 September 2016, 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Ahmedabad Management AssociationIIM Road

Ahmedabad

About

Disruption in a well-defined, working system to completely change how a particular industry is looked at and functions is what startups, using advanced technology strive for. One of the areas where disruption has integrated into our daily lives is the Hyper Local Space wherein cos have competed and worked together to bring us the best of technology and human. We at Headstart Ahmedabad want to celebrate this disruption in our lives, say cheers to those who have succeeded and all the best who are looking to disrupt the disruptors. Startup Saturday, Headstart Ahmedabad's monthly flagship event will be on Opportunities and Challenges in Hyperlocal Sector. Date: 10th September, 2016 Time: 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM Venue: Ahmedabad Management Association Event Type - FREE Speakers: 1) Captain Amrit Koijam - Gujarat Head - BigBasket.com Captain Amrit has served in the Indian Army for 6 years from the regions of Ladakh, Kargil to the remotest villages and across the seven seas representing the country as a UNITED NATION peacekeeper at Lebanon. After the Army, Amrit has worked as Manager Operations,Spencer's retail ltd and worked towards launching the biggest Spencer's market in Bengaluru. He now handles the Gujarat Centre of BigBasket and leads it as a Business Head. 2) Mr. Saurabh Shah - Founder, HandyServices.in Saurabh has the experience of working in multiple cities across India and has served as Director of a firm in Chennai, worked as an Analyst at another and is now in Ahmedabad to change the way Ahmedabad looks for Handymen such as electrician, plumbers etc. 3) Mr. Shailendra Singh Rao - Founder, Laundrynow.in Shailendra is serial entrepreneur, very active across the start-up ecosystem in India & is a member of various forums, where he is involved in mentoring Other start-ups & nurturing entrepreneurship. In addition to consulting, he is also on the advisory board of a few ventures helping accelerate their journey to commercial success. Agenda 09:00 AM Registrations & Introduction 09:15 AM Talk by Captain Amrit Koijam, Gujarat Head, BigBasket 10:00 AM Talk By Mr. Saurabh Shah, Founder, HandyServices.in 10:45 AM Talk by Mr. Shailendra Rao, Founder, LaundryNow 11:30 AM Networking Session

Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Each partnership comes with presence across eChai, introductions to the right founders, and a team that stays involved through the year. And each one is shaped around what the brand wants out of it.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. When one fits what you do and who you want to meet, you are on the list.

What we do with you

We sit down with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

How it works.

A partnership is for growth stage founders who want to come in as a partner brand, and it runs one year at a time. The brand fee for the year is paid to eChai. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.