Bengaluru

Product Growth Meetup in Bengaluru

Name: Product Growth Meetup in Bengaluru
Start: 2024-03-02T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2024-03-02T20:00:00+05:30
Location: Draper Startup House Flagship, Startup Lane, No.384, 1st A Main Rd, 7th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095.

<div>We'll have the candid panel conversation with founders and product leaders which will be followed by open pitches from early stage founders.</div>

We'll have the candid panel conversation with founders and product leaders which will be followed by open pitches from early stage founders.

Saturday, 2 March 2024

6:00–8:00 PM IST

Draper Startup House Flagship, Startup Lane, No.384, 1st A Main Rd, 7th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095.

Bengaluru

Hosts & speakers 8

Harneet Kaur Chhabra Speaker

Senior Product Manager, Genpact

Bhavik Makwana

Founder & CEO, ZenDevX

Harsha Bhurani

Founder · Hummingbird Talent ( An eChai Company )

Kush Prajapati

COO · DI AI

Malav Warke

Founder & CEO · Creatosaurus

Manoj Adwani

Founder · narad.io

Mansi Baheti

Community & Operations, Draper Startup House

Nivin Joseph

Head of Startup Programs and Partnerships · FounderStartupHouse

Starting Up

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Branding & visual identity How do I write a tagline and homepage headline that actually says what we do, instead of a vague inspirational line? If a stranger reads your headline and still can't tell what you do or for whom, it's...

Bootstrapping & profitability What are the most common ways bootstrapped founders accidentally kill their own margins? Bootstrapped businesses rarely die from one big mistake, they bleed out through...

Productivity & time for founders What's a realistic time-management system for a founder with zero spare hours? Skip the elaborate app stack, pick a weekly priority (the one thing that matters most),...

Should you raise? VC vs bootstrap Should I raise venture capital or bootstrap my startup? Raise VC only if your business needs a big pile of cash to reach escape velocity before...

Culture, remote & operations What tools does a 5 to 20 person startup actually need, and what am I overspending on? You need far less than the SaaS ads suggest: one chat tool, one docs/wiki, one project...

Founder mental health & burnout Is founder burnout normal, or is something wrong with me? It's brutally common, surveys consistently show most founders report anxiety, and...

Productivity & time for founders How do I stop context-switching between fundraising, product, sales, and hiring from wrecking my brain every single day? Batch your work by mode, not by task. Give whole days or half-days a single job: Monday...

Competitive & market research How do I understand the competitive landscape for an Indian market specifically? Don't assume the US playbook maps onto India, pricing power, distribution, and...

Launching (again and again) How do I build up an audience before I launch so it's not just crickets? Start building in public months before you ship, share the journey, post progress, and...

Getting your first 10 customers I'm building for Indian SMBs who use WhatsApp for everything. How do I get my first 10 without a fancy sales process? Meet them where they already are: for many Indian small businesses that is WhatsApp, a...

Polls

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Essentials Which email service runs your work inbox?

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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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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 agents are running in your stack right now?

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Claude Code 19 votes · 31%

Claude Cowork 9 votes · 15%

Cursor 7 votes · 11%

Gemini Spark (Google) 5 votes · 8%

OpenAI Codex 4 votes · 7%

OpenCode 3 votes · 5%

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Product & Engineering Where does your team write things down?

Google Docs 6 votes · 60%

Notion 2 votes · 20%

Obsidian 1 vote · 10%

Others 1 vote · 10%

Confluence 0 votes · 0%

Coda 0 votes · 0%

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AI Which AI assistant do you reach for first?

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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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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Product & Engineering What is your website built on?

HTML 2 votes · 40%

WordPress 1 vote · 20%

Shopify 1 vote · 20%

A custom build 1 vote · 20%

Wix 0 votes · 0%

Squarespace 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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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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Product & Engineering Which no-code builder do you ship with?

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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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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SaaS Copywriting Secrets: 5 Mistakes Killing Your Conversions Startups for the Rest of Us

$4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming SaaStr

Should You Buy SpaceX Stock? The Pomp Podcast

Training with Ouchies: How to Keep Going Without Making Things Worse The Pat Flynn Show

The Military's Nuclear Submarine Crew Are The Smartest People on Earth Noah Kagan Presents

Building the Future of Image Generation with Ideogram's CEO a16z

How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick Epley Huberman Lab

He Posted 1,200 Videos in 2 Years and Learned the Wrong Lesson The Colin and Samir Show

Pregnant at 14, DC's Top Cop at 39 — The Unbelievable Story of Cathy Lanier The Tim Ferriss Show

Automate Boring Tasks With Codex & Claude Code in 26 Minutes Marketing Against the Grain

Books

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Setting the Table Danny Meyer

Platform Revolution Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary

The Transparency Sale Todd Caponi

Building a Story Brand isn't enough Bernadette Jiwa

The Art of Startup Fundraising Alejandro Cremades

Who Geoff Smart and Randy Street

Platform Scale Sangeet Paul Choudary

User Story Mapping Jeff Patton with Peter Economy

Poor Charlie's Almanack Charles T. Munger, edited by Peter D. Kaufman

The Fearless Organization Amy C. Edmondson

Watchlist

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Film Margin Call A tight study of risk, decision making under pressure and leadership.

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

Film Guru A landmark Indian film on building a business empire from humble beginnings.

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

Film Maska An Indian story on family business, legacy and choosing your path.

TV Series Succession A family business is still a family.

Documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened A case study in overpromising, marketing hype and operational collapse.

TV Series Mad Men Deep on brand, persuasion, agency building and reinvention of self and company.

TV Series The Bold Type Light but useful on media, personal brand and ambition in a changing industry.

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

AI tools

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Design & images Stable Diffusion

Assistants Gemini 3 founders use it

Design & images Canva Magic Studio

Coding Claude Code 3 founders use it

Assistants Poe

Coding Lovable 1 founder use it

Automation & agents Zapier

Research & search NotebookLM 1 founder use it

Coding bolt.new

Video & audio HeyGen

eChai Partner Brands

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