Delhi-NCR

The Ultimate Startup Growth Meetup in Gurugram

Name: The Ultimate Startup Growth Meetup in Gurugram
Start: 2024-04-27T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2024-04-27T20:00:00+05:30
Location: Nasscom CoE Gurugram, Hartron Multi Skill Development Centre, Plot No-1, Udyog Vihar Phase-I, near Border Foot over bridge, Old Delhi-Gurgaon Rd, Dundahera, Gurugram, Haryana 122016, India.

<div>This meetup will have candid panel conversation with founders and leaders. It will be followed by open pitches from early stage founders.</div>

This meetup will have candid panel conversation with founders and leaders. It will be followed by open pitches from early stage founders.

Saturday, 27 April 2024

6:00–8:00 PM IST

Nasscom CoE Gurugram, Hartron Multi Skill Development Centre, Plot No-1, Udyog Vihar Phase-I, near Border Foot over bridge, Old Delhi-Gurgaon Rd, Dundahera, Gurugram, Haryana 122016, India.

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Hosts & speakers 6

Megha Verma Host

Founder · Growth Iris

Sudhanshu Mittal Host

Head & Director Technical Solutions - Gurugram Nasscom

Dhruv Nath Speaker

Director, Lead Angels Network Co-Author, Funding Your Startup

Mukesh Malik Speaker

Partner, Ah! Ventures

Suman Sengupta Speaker

Senior Advisor, Cogniphy Angel Fund

Vaibhav Kaushik Speaker

Co-Founder & CEO, Nawgati®

Starting Up

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Angel & seed fundraising How do I create momentum and FOMO so investors commit instead of stalling? Run the whole process in parallel and time-boxed so investors feel a real deadline and...

Paid acquisition basics How much creative do I actually need to test, and how often should I refresh it? Test a handful of genuinely different angles (not five tweaks of the same image) and...

Finding & shaping ideas How do I know if my idea is a real problem or just a 'nice to have'? A real problem is frequent, painful, and expensive enough that people are already...

Cold outreach & email How do I write a cold email that people actually reply to? Keep it short, personal, and about them, not you. Nail a subject line that sparks...

Branding & visual identity What are the most common branding mistakes that make an early startup look amateur or untrustworthy? The usual tells: a stretched or low-res logo, five random fonts, a stock-photo hero of...

Unit economics & modeling How do I calculate CAC (customer acquisition cost) and LTV? CAC = total sales and marketing spend divided by new customers acquired in that period,...

Retention, referral & virality What's a fair referral incentive to offer in India without training users to game it or attracting freeloaders? Two-sided incentives (both referrer and friend get something) usually beat one-sided,...

Distribution & channel strategy Is SEO still worth it for a new startup, or is it too slow and too late? SEO is slow, compounding, and still very much alive, but it is the wrong first channel...

Getting your first 10 customers What are the biggest mistakes founders make trying to land their first customers that I should avoid? The classic traps: building in secret for months then launching to crickets, pitching...

Talking to customers & user research How do I run good discovery calls in India when the person keeps saying yes to be polite but never converts? Politeness bias is real, and in many Indian conversations a warm yes is social...

Polls

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Product & Engineering Which design tool does your team use?

Canva 4 votes · 36%

Figma 3 votes · 27%

Framer 1 vote · 9%

Adobe Photoshop 1 vote · 9%

Adobe Illustrator 1 vote · 9%

Webflow 1 vote · 9%

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Money & Legal What manages your cap table and ESOPs?

Carta 0 votes · 0%

AngelList 0 votes · 0%

Pulley 0 votes · 0%

Cake Equity 0 votes · 0%

Qapita 0 votes · 0%

Trica 0 votes · 0%

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Sales & Marketing What do you run WhatsApp for business on?

Just the WhatsApp Business app 5 votes · 63%

AiSensy 1 vote · 13%

BusinessOnBot 1 vote · 13%

Retner.ai 1 vote · 13%

Interakt 0 votes · 0%

Wati 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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Essentials Which email service runs your work inbox?

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Google Workspace 20 votes · 63%

Zoho Mail 6 votes · 19%

Microsoft 365 (Outlook) 5 votes · 16%

Superhuman 1 vote · 3%

Titan 0 votes · 0%

Neo 0 votes · 0%

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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%

Naukri 0 votes · 0%

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Essentials Where does your team chat all day?

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WhatsApp 18 votes · 41%

Microsoft Teams 11 votes · 25%

Google Chat 6 votes · 14%

Slack 4 votes · 9%

Zoho Cliq 2 votes · 5%

Aookly 1 vote · 2%

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Operations Which internet provider keeps your team online?

Jio (JioFiber / Jio Business) 8 votes · 47%

Airtel (Xstream Fiber / Airtel Business) 7 votes · 41%

BSNL 2 votes · 12%

ACT Fibernet 0 votes · 0%

Tata Play Fiber 0 votes · 0%

Spectra 0 votes · 0%

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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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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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Giga Raises $61M Series A to Reinvent Customer Support with Human-Quality AI Agents The Logan Bartlett Show

The Science & Process of Healing from Grief | Huberman Lab Essentials Huberman Lab

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

Pelted With Bricks for 5 Days as a Rookie Cop — Cathy Lanier The Tim Ferriss Show

Geoffrey Hinton Just Said AI Is Already Conscious Big Technology Podcast

What It Actually Takes to Deploy a Voice Agent to a Fortune 500 Y Combinator

Redesigned marketwatch ab Kite app par The Daily Brief

Former Meta CSO: The Fable Ban Was a Massive Own Goal Big Technology Podcast

Reimagining Biotech with Jake Becraft of Strand Therapeutics — Tim’s Founder Kitchen The Tim Ferriss Show

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

Books

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Mastering the VC Game Jeffrey Bussgang

How Google Works Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

The Innovator's Solution Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor

Selling the Invisible Harry Beckwith

Creative Capital Spencer E. Ante

Marketing Management Philip Kotler

Scientific Advertising Claude C. Hopkins

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design Alan Cooper

The Sales Acceleration Formula Mark Roberge

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain

Watchlist

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Miniseries WeCrashed A vivid study of hype, charismatic founders, blitzscaling and the limits of a growth at...

TV Series Call My Agent: Bollywood A look at running an agency, handling demanding clients and keeping a firm afloat.

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

TV Series Industry Honest about ambition, performance pressure and the culture of high finance.

TV Series Rocket Boys Inspiring on vision, institution building and backing big bets against the odds.

Miniseries Inventing Anna A cautionary study of fundraising on image, social proof and the appetite of investors.

TV Series Mythic Quest One of the most accurate comedies about product teams, releases and engineering culture.

Documentary General Magic A moving study of timing, vision and how failed companies seed future giants.

Docudrama Valley of the Boom Strong primer on the first internet gold rush, hype cycles and the bust that followed.

Documentary Becoming Warren Buffett Foundational on long term thinking, compounding and clear principles.

AI tools

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Coding Claude Code 2 founders use it

Design & images Recraft

Writing & content Copy.ai

Assistants Grok 1 founder use it

Automation & agents Zapier

Coding Cursor

Video & audio Veo

Automation & agents Manus

Coding GitHub Copilot

Writing & content Rytr

eChai Partner Brands

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