Chennai

Startup Growth Networking Meetup in Chennai x Awfis

Name: Startup Growth Networking Meetup in Chennai x Awfis
Start: 2022-03-05T16:00:00+05:30
End: 2022-03-05T18:00:00+05:30
Location: Level 7 ,Awfis Space Solutions, Prestige Cosmopolitan, Door No : 36, Sardar Patel Road , Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 600032.

eChai Ventures and Awfis will be hosting the Startup Growth Networking Meetup in Chennai on 5th March, Saturday from 4 pm to 6 pm.

Saturday, 5 March 2022

4:00–6:00 PM IST

Level 7 ,Awfis Space Solutions, Prestige Cosmopolitan, Door No : 36, Sardar Patel Road , Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 600032.

Chennai

Hosts & speakers 2

Goda Raghavan Speaker

Partner, AK Law Chambers

Khuzema Siamwala Speaker

CEO, Siam Computing

Starting Up

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Selling to enterprises (B2B) How do I negotiate multi-year contracts, discounts, and renewal terms without training customers to always squeeze me? Never give a discount for free: trade it for something you want, like a longer term, an...

Solo founder survival guide When should a solo founder finally bring on a co-founder or first key hire, and how do I do it without regret? Add a partner when a specific, persistent gap is capping the business (you cannot sell,...

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...

Content & SEO foundations How do I write content for SEO without sounding like a robot stuffing keywords? Write the thing a real person would actually want to read, then check that the words...

Paid acquisition basics How do I stop platform-reported conversions from lying to me about what's actually driving sales? Meta and Google both over-claim credit, so if you add up every platform's reported...

Founder-market fit How do I honestly test my founder-market fit before I quit my job? Run a cheap dress rehearsal while you still have income. Spend a month talking to 20...

Launching (again and again) My first launch went okay but the second felt embarrassing, like 'why are they back again already?' Is relaunch fatigue real? Nobody is tracking your launch cadence the way you are, so the fatigue is almost...

Getting your first 10 customers How do I get customers who don't already know me when I have no brand, no audience, and no case studies yet? With nothing to point to, you borrow trust: go where your customers already gather (a...

Business models explained Should I charge a subscription or charge per transaction for my product? Subscriptions win when customers get continuous, predictable value and you want smooth...

Pricing & packaging Should I put my prices on my website or hide them behind a 'contact sales' form? If you are selling to small teams or self-serve users, publish the price. Hiding it...

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%

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Sales & Marketing What powers your customer support?

That Was AI 1 vote · 100%

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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%

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People & Hiring How do you run payroll and HR?

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AI Which tool do you vibe code with most?

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Claude Code 16 votes · 64%

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v0 1 vote · 4%

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Sales & Marketing What runs your marketing automation?

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Retner.ai 1 vote · 25%

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

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AI Which AI agents are running in your stack right now?

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Claude Code 19 votes · 30%

Claude Cowork 9 votes · 14%

Cursor 7 votes · 11%

Gemini Spark (Google) 6 votes · 10%

OpenAI Codex 4 votes · 6%

OpenCode 3 votes · 5%

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AI Which AI assistant do you reach for first?

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Product & Engineering Where does your team write things down?

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Asks

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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

Mentorship & advice I'm looking for a small peer group of founders to think with. Also need mentoring support from... Vivart Patel

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The Fund - an interview with Rob Copeland Radical Candor

China Open-Source, Compute Arms Race, Reordering Global Trade | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner BG2 Pod

Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305 This Week in Startups

Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP Latent Space

What is a Problem I Can Help Solve? Radical Candor

Clay’s Unusual Path to Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company Invest Like the Best

General Relativity: The greatest idea in physics | Don Lincoln and Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast

Goodbye Starbucks! This is the New "Third Place" that Defeated Coffee Shops Behind the Brand

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

Funnels Don't Build Businesses: Here's What Does Everyone Hates Marketers

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Drive Daniel H. Pink

Intercom on Product Management Des Traynor and John Collins

Predictable Revenue Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler

The Infinite Game Simon Sinek

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The Brand Gap Marty Neumeier

The Z Factor Subhash Chandra with Pranjal Sharma

StrengthsFinder 2.0 Tom Rath

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This Luke Sullivan

VC Tom Nicholas

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Film Bazaar An Indian markets drama on ambition, mentorship and the cost of winning.

Film Jobs An accessible founder biopic on the early Apple journey.

TV Series Suits Useful on closing deals, managing clients and building a firm and a brand.

Film Joy An inventor to entrepreneur story on patents, manufacturing and selling.

TV Series Severance Work-life balance, taken literally.

Film Steve Jobs A sharp portrait of product launches, leadership and difficult genius.

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

AI tools

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Writing & content Jasper

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Data & analytics Rows

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