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Startup Growth Panel: Consumer Tech

We'll have growth-stage founders and leaders from Consumer Tech startups to share their experiences and interact with the community.

We'll have growth-stage founders and leaders from Consumer Tech startups to share their experiences and interact with the community.

Wednesday, 20 January 2021
6:00–7:00 PM IST
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Starting Up

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Building your MVP My MVP works but nobody sticks around after signing up. How do I diagnose whether it's a product problem or an onboarding problem? Watch real sessions: if users never reach the core value moment, it's onboarding or...
Making the leap What legal and financial housekeeping do I need done in the first 30 days after I quit? Do not let the first weeks of freedom become a paperwork landmine: within 30 days,...
Retention, referral & virality I run a WhatsApp-first business in India, how do I drive referrals where the sharing actually happens? If your users already live in WhatsApp, forcing them to a web referral dashboard kills...
Defining your ideal customer How do I build customer personas that are actually useful and not fiction? Base every persona on real interviews, not your imagination, real quotes, real jobs,...
Incorporation & legal setup How do I split equity and put a vesting schedule in place at incorporation? Split on the future, not the past, and vest everything. Equal or near-equal splits...
Valuation, SAFEs & term sheets How do I read a term sheet without a lawyer so I know which clauses to actually fight over? Read every term sheet knowing that only a few clauses truly move your outcome:...
Finding & working with developers How do I write a spec for a developer when I'm not technical? Start by describing what the user does, screen by screen, in plain language, not what...
Selling to enterprises (B2B) Should I hire a salesperson yet, or keep selling founder-led until I hit a certain revenue? Keep selling founder-led until you've closed roughly your first 10 enterprise deals...
Defining your ideal customer What's the difference between defining a niche and just being too small to matter? A good niche is small in headcount but deep in pain and willingness to pay, while a bad...
Startup finance & accounting Should I open a separate business bank account before I even register the company, or use my personal account for now? Mixing personal and business money is the first accounting mistake most first-time...

Polls

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Essentials Which tool do your video meetings run on?
Sharib Sultan Hirva Bhatt Aishwarya N Jatin Chaudhary Anmol Parimoo Manan Maheshwari Harry Rajput Rahul Sharma +9
Google Meet 11 votes · 55%
Microsoft Teams 6 votes · 30%
Zoom 3 votes · 15%
Webex 0 votes · 0%
Whereby 0 votes · 0%
Around 0 votes · 0%
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Product & Engineering Where do you manage projects and tasks?
Justin Lord Aishwarya N Siddhant Trivedi Amish Trivedi Pragnesh Shah Viraj Rajani
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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Product & Engineering Where does your team write things down?
Anuj Dalal Akshay Solanki Harry Rajput Haripriya Epuri Yash Shah Ritwik Joshi Viraj Rajani Rushabh Shah
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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Operations Which internet provider keeps your team online?
Aryan Panchal Harry Rajput Kishan Parekh Rahul Sharma Dhruv Dattani Anil Motwani Kunal Chaudhari Vishal Tiwari +9
Jio (JioFiber / Jio Business) 9 votes · 50%
Airtel (Xstream Fiber / Airtel Business) 7 votes · 39%
BSNL 2 votes · 11%
ACT Fibernet 0 votes · 0%
Tata Play Fiber 0 votes · 0%
Spectra 0 votes · 0%
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Operations Where does your team work from?
Aishwarya N Tushar Prajapati Rahul Sharma Pragnesh Shah Anil Motwani Ritwik Joshi Rushabh Shah Kush Prajapati
Our own office 4 votes · 44%
Work from home 4 votes · 44%
DevX 1 vote · 11%
WeWork 0 votes · 0%
Awfis 0 votes · 0%
91springboard 0 votes · 0%
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Sales & Marketing What runs your marketing automation?
Jatin Chaudhary Yash Shah Rahul Kumar Viraj Rajani
HubSpot 1 vote · 25%
MoEngage 1 vote · 25%
Others 1 vote · 25%
Retner.ai 1 vote · 25%
Customer.io 0 votes · 0%
Braze 0 votes · 0%
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People & Hiring Which accelerator or incubator were you part of?
Akshay Solanki Nandan Shukla Ritwik Joshi Rushabh Shah Kush Prajapati
IIMA Ventures 3 votes · 43%
A state or govt incubator 3 votes · 43%
i-Hub 1 vote · 14%
Y Combinator 0 votes · 0%
Techstars 0 votes · 0%
Antler 0 votes · 0%
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Product & Engineering Which design tool does your team use?
Shalvi Patel Aryan Panchal Aishwarya N Siddhant Trivedi Manan Maheshwari Dhruv Dattani Apurvv Pakhmode Viraj Rajani
Canva 6 votes · 46%
Figma 3 votes · 23%
Framer 1 vote · 8%
Adobe Photoshop 1 vote · 8%
Adobe Illustrator 1 vote · 8%
Webflow 1 vote · 8%
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Operations Where do you get your team's health insurance?
Sharib Sultan Amish Trivedi Nadeem Jafri Kush Prajapati
HDFC ERGO 2 votes · 40%
ICICI Lombard 1 vote · 20%
Star Health 1 vote · 20%
Through a broker 1 vote · 20%
Plum 0 votes · 0%
Onsurity 0 votes · 0%
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Essentials Where does your team chat all day?
Himanshu Patel Jignesh Thakkar Rakesh Hansrajani Sharib Sultan Aryan Panchal Hirva Bhatt Tushar Prajapati Manan Maheshwari +35
WhatsApp 22 votes · 42%
Microsoft Teams 12 votes · 23%
Google Chat 6 votes · 12%
Slack 5 votes · 10%
Zoho Cliq 3 votes · 6%
Discord 1 vote · 2%
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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

Podcasts

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The Power of Habit Summarized by the Author | Charles Duhigg The Power of Habit Summarized by the Author | Charles Duhigg My First Million
The Data Layer for the Robot Economy The Data Layer for the Robot Economy Y Combinator
Why Traditional Benchmarks Fail Modern AI Models with OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown Why Traditional Benchmarks Fail Modern AI Models with OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown No Priors
I Asked 15 VCs to Give Me Their Spiciest Take I Asked 15 VCs to Give Me Their Spiciest Take The Peel
AI Was Just the Beginning. Quantum Is Next. AI Was Just the Beginning. Quantum Is Next. Bankless
The Many Benefits of Coca — The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use The Many Benefits of Coca — The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use The Tim Ferriss Show
The 4-Step Framework to Build Addictive Products The 4-Step Framework to Build Addictive Products Think School
Jatin Chaudhary
The Founder Using Claude to Build Real Hardware The Founder Using Claude to Build Real Hardware The Generalist
Redesigned marketwatch ab Kite app par Redesigned marketwatch ab Kite app par The Daily Brief
How Do I Stop Wasting Time? How Do I Stop Wasting Time? Deep Questions

Books

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Hacking Growth Hacking Growth Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown
VC VC Tom Nicholas
Bargaining for Advantage Bargaining for Advantage G. Richard Shell
The Goal The Goal Eliyahu M. Goldratt with Jeff Cox
High Output Management High Output Management Andrew S. Grove
Predictable Revenue Predictable Revenue Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler
Setting the Table Setting the Table Danny Meyer
The Little Book of Behavioral Investing The Little Book of Behavioral Investing James Montier
Bad Blood Bad Blood John Carreyrou
The Startup of You The Startup of You Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha

Watchlist

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Harry Rajput
Film Tetris A surprisingly tense lesson on licensing, deal structure and global business.
Jaymin Bhavsar
Miniseries WeCrashed A vivid study of hype, charismatic founders, blitzscaling and the limits of a growth at...
Jatin Chaudhary Anoushka Joshi
Film Padman A social entrepreneurship story about solving a real problem against ridicule and...
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Film The Big Short Excellent on contrarian thinking, conviction and reading markets.
Jaymin Bhavsar
TV Series Physical A founder origin story about turning an idea into a personal brand business.
TV Series Aspirants Less about startups and more about the grind, sacrifice and long odds that any founder...
Rahul Sharma Dhruv Dattani
TV Series Upload Satirizes subscription products, tiered pricing and tech company power.
Jatin Chaudhary Hirva Bhatt
TV Series Ozark A dark study of operations, risk management and running a business under extreme pressure.
Film The Intern A warm and practical picture of a founder chief executive managing growth and pressure.
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AI tools

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Rushabh Shah Vishal Tiwari Dhruv Dattani
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Assistants ChatGPT 3 founders use it
Vishal Tiwari Anil Motwani Dhruv Dattani
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Assistants Grok 1 founder use it
Rushabh Shah
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Automation & agents Gumloop Share how you use it →
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