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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Cold outreach & email Is cold outreach even worth it, or is it just spam that hurts my brand? Done lazily it's spam; done well it's just starting a relevant conversation with...

Community-led growth How do I keep a community engaged instead of dead? Community health is about members creating value for each other, so seed rituals,...

Competitive & market research How do I size the market and figure out if it's big enough? Build it bottom-up, not from a scary McKinsey top-down number: who exactly is the...

Understanding the problem (JTBD) My product is for Indian small businesses who mostly run their operations on WhatsApp. How do I frame the job against a free tool they already love? The job isn't "replace WhatsApp", it's whatever WhatsApp does badly at scale: losing...

No-code & low-code building How do I use AI code generation tools like Cursor to go beyond what pure no-code allows without becoming a full-time developer? The middle path is real now: keep your no-code app for the parts it does well, and use...

Making the leap How do I convince my spouse and family to back me quitting? Don't sell them a dream, bring them a plan: the exact runway number, the timeline, the...

Pricing & packaging Am I charging too little for my product? Almost certainly yes, underpricing is the single most common startup pricing mistake....

Valuation, SAFEs & term sheets What's the difference between a valuation cap and a discount on a SAFE? A cap sets the maximum valuation at which your SAFE converts, protecting the investor's...

Angel & seed fundraising How do I find and get intros to angel investors and seed funds? Warm intros beat cold outreach massively, so map your network and get founders in each...

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...

Polls

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AI Which AI coding tool do you build with?

Claude Code 3 votes · 43%

Cursor 1 vote · 14%

OpenAI Codex 1 vote · 14%

Replit 1 vote · 14%

Lovable 1 vote · 14%

GitHub Copilot 0 votes · 0%

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AI Which AI assistant do you reach for first?

Claude 3 votes · 100%

ChatGPT 0 votes · 0%

Gemini 0 votes · 0%

Perplexity 0 votes · 0%

Grok 0 votes · 0%

Microsoft Copilot 0 votes · 0%

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Sales & Marketing How do you track product and web analytics?

Google Analytics 5 votes · 45%

Microsoft Clarity 5 votes · 45%

PostHog 1 vote · 9%

Mixpanel 0 votes · 0%

Amplitude 0 votes · 0%

Plausible 0 votes · 0%

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Essentials Which tool do your video meetings run on?

Google Meet 10 votes · 53%

Microsoft Teams 6 votes · 32%

Zoom 3 votes · 16%

Webex 0 votes · 0%

Whereby 0 votes · 0%

Around 0 votes · 0%

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Money & Legal Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?

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ICICI Bank 13 votes · 36%

HDFC Bank 9 votes · 25%

Kotak Mahindra Bank 8 votes · 22%

IDFC First Bank 2 votes · 6%

State Bank of India 1 vote · 3%

Yes Bank 1 vote · 3%

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Money & Legal Who did you incorporate your company with?

LegalWiz.in 3 votes · 60%

A local CA 2 votes · 40%

Vakilsearch 0 votes · 0%

IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%

ClearTax 0 votes · 0%

Razorpay Rize 0 votes · 0%

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Sales & Marketing What powers your customer support?

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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Sales & Marketing What do you publish your newsletter with?

Mailchimp 3 votes · 33%

Substack 3 votes · 33%

Zoho Campaigns 2 votes · 22%

Brevo 1 vote · 11%

Beehiiv 0 votes · 0%

Kit (ConvertKit) 0 votes · 0%

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Operations Which cloud telephony runs your business calls?

Exotel 0 votes · 0%

Knowlarity 0 votes · 0%

MyOperator 0 votes · 0%

Servetel 0 votes · 0%

Ozonetel 0 votes · 0%

Kaleyra 0 votes · 0%

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Money & Legal What do you use for accounting and bookkeeping?

Tally 1 vote · 100%

Zoho Books 0 votes · 0%

Vyapar 0 votes · 0%

QuickBooks 0 votes · 0%

Refrens 0 votes · 0%

myBillBook 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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How to use Codex as your AI data analyst Marketing Against the Grain

“Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg No Priors

Your Product Is NOT Your Company | Pramod Gosavi (Blumberg Capital) The Desi VC

Fixing his YouTube Channel in 24 minutes The Colin and Samir Show

Monaco Grandpa Advice To His Grandchildren ❤️ Noah Kagan Presents

Bitcoin Is CRASHING AGAIN! Buy The Dip Or Is It Truly Over? The Pomp Podcast

The Most Incredible Transformation I’ve Ever Seen — Jerzy Gregorek on Cerebral Palsy and Coaching The Tim Ferriss Show

🔬 The Bitter Lesson is Coming for Proteins - Alex Rives, BioHub Latent Space

Why People Quit So Easily? Ft. Nir Eyal Think School

She Called Us to Save Her Channel The Colin and Samir Show

Books

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre

The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey

The Total Money Makeover Dave Ramsey

Now, Discover Your Strengths Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton

Tested Advertising Methods John Caples

The Brand Gap Marty Neumeier

Secrets of Sand Hill Road Scott Kupor

This Is Strategy Seth Godin

The Coaching Habit Michael Bungay Stanier

Watchlist

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Docuseries The Toys That Built America A fun source of branding and product stories in consumer goods.

Anthology Black Mirror Provokes hard questions about the products founders build and their second order effects.

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.

Film Ford v Ferrari Strong on engineering, teams and competing with a dominant rival.

TV Series Kota Factory A study of systems, pressure and mentorship that maps onto building and competing.

Film Tucker: The Man and His Dream A classic founder story on innovation, incumbents and idealism.

TV Series The Wire A deep look at systems, incentives and organizations that any operator can learn from.

TV Series Itaewon Class A pure underdog founder story about grit, values and competing with an incumbent.

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

AI tools

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Assistants Grok 1 founder use it

Coding Lovable 1 founder use it

Design & images Adobe Firefly

Automation & agents Manus

Design & images Leonardo AI

Coding GitHub Copilot

Writing & content QuillBot

Video & audio ElevenLabs 1 founder use it

Coding v0

Writing & content Sudowrite

eChai Partner Brands

eChai Ventures partners with select brands as their growth partner. Together we explore new ideas, open doors, and build momentum across the startup ecosystem.

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