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Why we picked it The Indian reality is that the strongest peer groups live on WhatsApp, not on Slack or a paid platform, and they form around a shared cohort or city rather than a directory. This piece reports how founders in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune actually assemble these invite-only circles and, more usefully, the three unwritten rules that keep them high signal: curation on the way in, consistent engagement, and a contribution bar where people who only extract get quietly dropped. If you are building yours in India, this tells you the medium and the norms that make it work.
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- In India the default venue is a curated, invite-only WhatsApp group formed around a batch or city, where founders find a tester, a growth hire and a mentor in the same week
- Keep it invite-only and curated: the value is destroyed the moment membership gets loose
- Enforce a contribution norm, members who only take and never give get silently removed, which is what keeps the signal high