Ahmedabad

The Ultimate Startup Growth Meetup in Ahmedabad

Name: The Ultimate Startup Growth Meetup in Ahmedabad
Start: 2024-05-17T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2024-05-17T20:00:00+05:30
Location: Ahmedabad University, Room No 110, 1st Floor, University Centre, Gate No 12, University Road, Near Commerce Six Road, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009.

<div>This meetup will have candid panel conversation with founders and leaders. It will be followed by open pitches from early stage founders.<br><br><strong>Notes:<br></strong><br>Registration is mandatory to attend this meetup. </div>

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

Notes:

Registration is mandatory to attend this meetup.

Friday, 17 May 2024

6:00–8:00 PM IST

Ahmedabad University, Room No 110, 1st Floor, University Centre, Gate No 12, University Road, Near Commerce Six Road, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009.

Ahmedabad

Jatin, Utpal + 9 others went See who came

Hosts & speakers 3

Jatin Chaudhary Host

CEO · eChai Ventures

Utpal Vaishnav Speaker

Founder · Upsquare

Amit Panchal

Co-Founder & CEO, AllEvents.in

Going 8

Rahul Kumar

Founder & CEO · Retner.ai

Aashish Kharwade

Co-Founder · FastHire Manpower Solution

Jignesh Thakkar

Founder · LoudRevel

Parth Gupta

Founder & CEO · Helomatrix

Rakesh Hansrajani

Founder · FastHire

Sumit Kasardekar

Founder · The Harsmit Ventures

Vishal Patel

Volunteer · 99Barkville

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Psychologist & Founder · OneWithOneself

Starting Up

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Selling to enterprises (B2B) As a technical or first-time founder, how do I actually run a good sales call? Selling is a learnable muscle, not a personality trait, and the single biggest lever is...

Finding a co-founder How do I fire or exit a co-founder without destroying the company? Act sooner than feels comfortable, because a bad co-founder split gets more expensive...

Pitch deck & storytelling How should I present my team slide when we are first-time founders with no big-brand names on it? Stop apologizing for not being ex-Google. Position the team slide around founder-market...

Finding your niche / beachhead My beachhead niche is too small to hit even a few lakh in revenue. Did I pick wrong, or do I just expand? A beachhead being small is the point, but it still has to be big enough to fund your...

Defining your ideal customer How do I know if I'm targeting the wrong customer? Watch your best customers, not your loudest. If the people who onboard fastest, churn...

Distribution & channel strategy I'm a technical founder who hates selling. Can I distribute without doing sales? You can lean toward channels that fit an introvert (content, product-led growth,...

Angel & seed fundraising How is raising a seed round in India different from the US? The instruments and paperwork differ: India commonly uses the iSAFE (a CCPS-based...

Cold outreach & email Should I use my personal email and name or a company address for cold outreach? For founder-led outreach, a real person's name and face beats a faceless brand nearly...

Business models explained What business model can I realistically run solo as a bootstrapped indie founder in India? Solo-friendly models are ones where you can deliver value without a big team or heavy...

Should you raise? VC vs bootstrap What kind of businesses are actually a good fit for venture capital? VC math only works for companies that can plausibly return the whole fund on one bet,...

Polls

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Sales & Marketing What do you schedule and manage social media with?

Sprout Social 1 vote · 25%

SocialPilot 1 vote · 25%

Others 1 vote · 25%

Brands.live 1 vote · 25%

Buffer 0 votes · 0%

Hootsuite 0 votes · 0%

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People & Hiring Which accelerator or incubator were you part of?

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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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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Money & Legal Who did you incorporate your company with?

LegalWiz.in 3 votes · 50%

A local CA 3 votes · 50%

Vakilsearch 0 votes · 0%

IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%

ClearTax 0 votes · 0%

Razorpay Rize 0 votes · 0%

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Money & Legal How have you funded your business so far?

Bootstrapped 14 votes · 88%

Angel investors 1 vote · 6%

A VC firm 1 vote · 6%

AngelList or LetsVenture syndicate 0 votes · 0%

Venture Catalysts or 100X.VC 0 votes · 0%

An accelerator 0 votes · 0%

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

+18

Claude Code 19 votes · 30%

Claude Cowork 9 votes · 14%

Cursor 8 votes · 13%

Gemini Spark (Google) 6 votes · 9%

OpenAI Codex 4 votes · 6%

OpenCode 3 votes · 5%

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Essentials Where does your team chat all day?

+36

WhatsApp 23 votes · 43%

Microsoft Teams 12 votes · 23%

Google Chat 6 votes · 11%

Slack 5 votes · 9%

Zoho Cliq 3 votes · 6%

Discord 1 vote · 2%

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Operations How do people book time with you?

+12

Google Calendar appointments 9 votes · 32%

Calendly 7 votes · 25%

Cal.com 4 votes · 14%

Phone Call or Whatsapp 4 votes · 14%

Microsoft Bookings 2 votes · 7%

Zoho Bookings 1 vote · 4%

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Product & Engineering What is your website built on?

A custom build 2 votes · 33%

HTML 2 votes · 33%

WordPress 1 vote · 17%

Shopify 1 vote · 17%

Wix 0 votes · 0%

Squarespace 0 votes · 0%

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

Zoho Books 1 vote · 50%

Tally 1 vote · 50%

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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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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Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview BG2 Pod

Is A Market Crash Coming?! The Pomp Podcast

The Startup Club by Slidebean Live Stream Slidebean

Andrew Warner on Good Morning America Mixergy

Ex-CEO of Twitter Breaks Down the SpaceX IPO | Dick Costolo Big Technology Podcast

Will FY27 Bring Better Returns? What Q4 Results Reveal! ET Money

I Wasn't Trying to Build AI — Godfather of AI Big Technology Podcast

Kya aap BSE par buy karke NSE par sell kar sakte hain? The Daily Brief

ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview BG2 Pod

Bitcoin Is Down Bad, But History Shows Us It's NOT Out The Pomp Podcast

Books

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The Network Imperative Barry Libert, Megan Beck, and Jerry Wind

The Fearless Organization Amy C. Edmondson

Product Management in Practice Matt LeMay

Beating the Street Peter Lynch with John Rothchild

Out of the Crisis W. Edwards Deming

Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed

Start with Why Simon Sinek

Work Rules! Laszlo Bock

Business Model Generation Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

Tatalog Harish Bhat

Watchlist

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Docuseries LuLaRich A study of distribution models, incentives and how a sales machine can turn predatory.

Documentary Print the Legend A real time look at hardware startups, funding pressure and founder fallout.

TV Series Made in Heaven A genuine founder story about running a services business, managing clients and holding...

TV Series Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber Shows the brutal mechanics of scaling, aggressive growth tactics and founder versus...

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

TV Series Mismatched Features a young woman determined to build her own app, which speaks to early founder...

TV Series Upload Satirizes subscription products, tiered pricing and tech company power.

Documentary Betting on Zero A deep look at business models, distribution and short selling.

Documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley A factual companion to the Theranos story on belief, ethics and investors.

Film Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year A beloved Indian story on values, sales and building a team you trust.

AI tools

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Writing & content Sudowrite

Assistants Qwen

Coding Lovable 1 founder use it

Assistants Microsoft Copilot 1 founder use it

Research & search Perplexity

Video & audio Pika

Assistants Poe

Coding Tabnine

Meetings & notes Otter.ai

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